> > I think that that optimization could be easily integrated into
> > pager_memcpy.
>
> There was once a theory that memcpy would use vm_copy for large
> page-aligned copies. There is in fact code for this in libc, but I think
> it doesn't get used because it's only the generic code and there are
> optimized x86 versions that don't do any page-alignment checks. Certainly
> if memcpy gets inlined it doesn't happen.
I think it would be worth making it happen: then, there would be no
need to change paper_memcpy. Are there any caveats? Especially with
respect to how to restructure libc/sysdeps/i386/{,i[456]86}/memcpy.S?
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