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On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:03:29PM +0000, Ben Harris wrote:
> Hmm.  At the moment, our memcpy() has an overhead of two instructions per
> loop in the aligned case, the same as bcopy_page (though memcpy()
> currently uses smaller blocks).  There is, admittedly, a startup overhead
> of about fifteen instructions, and about the same at the end, though I'm
> not sure that's worth worrying about on a 4-KB copy.

thats 3%, right? Err... 1.5%. If you get it for free, why not take it?
The kernel does a lot of block copying, I believe.

	-is

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