David Gilbert <david.gilb...@linaro.org> writes:

>> The memcpy case is not interesting.  Not at all.  Most kernel memcpy
>> calls are for small size copies.  The large copy instances are just bad
>> and misdesigned in the first place if they rely on memcpy (maybe they
>> should simply have a custom copy function, maybe implemented with Neon).
>
> Even outside the kernel vast memcpy's are fairly rare as far as I can
> tell - everyone knows they're going to hurt so people try and avoid
> them;

If only that were true.  I have long since lost count of the times I
have (in vain) told people to lose the mempcys in order to improve
performance.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
m...@mansr.com

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