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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 10:34:48 +0200
From: "Pawel Kowalski" <pk AT tcs DOT uni DOT wroc DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: Inline asm
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On 98-08-01, at 06:29, Donald McComb wrote: 

>Ahhh... But I thought memcopy copied the memory in byte sized chunks,
>rather than longs, and thus wouldn't be quite as fast as it could be.  I
>hope you're right... that solution is far more appealling than inline
>asm :)
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Nope. It first transfers up to 3 bytes to align to 4, then uses "movsl".
(see src/libc/pc_hw/mem/djmd.s)

Pawel Kowalski