From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: can i SOMEHOW write inline assembly under DJGPP ?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:24:49 -0300
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shay wrote:

> the REALY SHITTY part is that i have written in 16BIT DOS a VERY FAST
> copy function that i just LOVE because it doesn't check for all the
> thousands of errors and SHIT , it just copies FAST.

    DJGPP comes with a 'memcpy' command that uses optimized 32-bit mov's to
copy memory from one place to another.  If you were using a real 16-bit
compiler, you would have only been able to move 16-bit's at a time,
therefore memcpy would be twice as fast.

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