Bert Huijben wrote: > patterning_copy() should check the alignment of source and destination or > the copies by using this blocksize can be much slower than the original > version that just used bytes. (On some architectures an unaligned operation > is completely handled in software from within an exception handler)
Another thing about patterning copies: I bet they often have a repeat-length of 1 and almost never have a long pattern of a repeat-length greater than 1. I suspect the quickest way to generate a long pattern of repeat-length 1 would be memset(). - Julian
