Efficiency of memmove vs. generic typed copy

[Paolo Carlini]

Paolo Carlini wrote:

>Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>
>>Do we have evidence that code B is generally faster than code A for
>>the majority of say primary platforms?
>>
>A few days ago I had your very same curiosity. I haven't done extensive
>tests, in particular not checked carefully the effects of restrict, but
>two points seemed obvious:
>1- For short copies, say, less than ~100 chars, the open coded loop was
>*much* faster.
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>
Well, a large fraction of this is due to inlining...

>2- For long copies, memcpy was a win, probably not by the same margin,
>but a clear win.
>  
>
... still, I'm consistently seeing this. I think we should first set up
tests comparing out of line open coded loops to out of line memcpy & co.
I haven't done that yet :(

Paolo.