[Bug fortran/31016] Use __buildin_memcpy and __memcpy for array assignment

["pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #5 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-04-30 17:25 -------
> AFAIK the libc memset/cpy choose the algorithm depending the the size etc., so
> you have to do a big block to make up for all the overhead. But what could be
> done for small multidimensional arrays would be to "flatten" the nested loops
> into the equivalent 1D loop? Perhaps this is something better done in the
> middle end?

Well libc's memcpy/memset does optimize by size but the compiler also optimizes
memcpy/memset if the size is constant and also based on the alignment so it
could optimize it down to two instructions instead of a couple (and on PPC,
with -maltivec, GCC can optimize using VMX also which makes the instruction
count go down even more).


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