Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Agner Fog wrote:

> Glibc 2.8 is still almost 5 times slower than the best function 
> libraries for unaligned data on Intel Core 2, and the default builtin 
> function is slower than any other implementation I have seen (copies 1 
> byte at a time!).

You must be doing something wrong.  If the compiler decides to inline the 
string ops it either knows the size or you told it to do it anyway 
(-minline-all-stringops or -minline-stringops-dynamically).  In both cases 
will it use wider than byte moves when possible.


Ciao,
Michael.

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