memcpy performance (fwd)

[Jonathan Larmour]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
> I thought I would pass this on.  Does the new version of memcpy do much
> better than this?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue,  9 Dec 97 12:03:28 -0600
> From: Eric Norum <eric@skatter.USask.Ca>
> To: rtems-list@oarcorp.com
> Subject: Re: memcpy performance
> 
> It's even worse than just a byte-by-byte copy!
> 
> On the 971024 snapshot (gen68360 BSP) a call to memcpy produces:
[...a lot of unnecessary wastefulness]

Is he compiling with -O? If so, then gcc should include its own builtin
memcpy instead of the newlib one AIUI.

This may not be true for that target possibly. Anyone know?

Jonathan L.