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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: memcpy versus assignment
Message-ID: <509@bbxsda.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 15:26:01 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Organization: Basis International,  Albuquerque, NM
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I recall a '286 C compiler that generated a series of MOVS instructions
to move structures.  I figured that for small structures this was
faster than the overhead required to call a memcpy() routine.  Just
for yuks one day I defined a structure with a 1000 element int array
in it.  The C compiler generated tons and tons of MOVS instructions (talk
about un-rolling a loop :-).

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Scott Amspoker
Basis International, Albuquerque, NM
(505) 345-5232
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