memcpy performance
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Dec 9 08:47:00 GMT 1997
In message <199712091644.IAA20455@cygint.cygnus.com>you write:
> An RTEMS user has noticed that the performance of the RTEMS message
> queue routines is bound by our use of newlib's memcpy routine. The
> current implementation uses a byte-by-byte copy.
>
> What would it take to get a better generic implementation? Is there one
> laying around which could be used instead? I remember the old GNU/960
> version did some alignment and then copied 16-bytes at a time.
Already done :-)
Tue Oct 7 14:01:29 1997 Bill Moyer (billm@cygnus.com)
Jeffrey A Law (law@cygnus.com)
* libc/string/{memchr.c, memcmp.c, memcpy.c}: Reimplement to run faster.
* libc/string/{memset.c, strcat.c, strchr.c}: Likewise.
* libc/string/{strcmp.c, strcpy.c, strlen.c}: Likewise.
* libc/string/{strncat.c, strncmp.c, strncpy.c}: Likewise.
jeff
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