"Garrett D'Amore" <garr...@damore.org> wrote:
> There is an assertion you've made that "strcpy" is only used to copy a
> handful of bytes. While this *might* be true, I'm less convinced that
> it is. It would be interesting to profile some big web servers, etc.
> and see often strcpy gets called. It seesm (to me at least), that this
> is an oft-called function, and its irrelevance for performance is not
> (to me at least, again) immediately obvious.
While functions like memmove() usually copy a lot more bytes and thus
can spend time on diciding on the best algorithm that maches the size,
the alignment and the copy direction, I believe that strcpy() usually copies
less than 64 bytes.
Jörg
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