Report from a novice VM h4x0r.
Samuel Tardieu
sam at rfc1149.net
Thu Apr 1 07:16:59 UTC 2004
>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Grimes <alangrimes at starpower.net> writes:
[concerning memmove() and friends]
Alan> While the C library function _SHOULD_ be the fastest, it
Alan> involves a library call...
Compilers such as GCC detect moves of a statically known size and will
generate code for them inline. In any case, it may well pay off to let
it do the job.
Sam
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