Explanation, please!

[T. William Wells]

In article <ac4GLe9fit1010twl3. at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> chuck at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons) writes:
: I then added a piece to the program to use 'memcpy'.  The results?
: Duff beats a simple loop by 10%.  'memcpy' is 9 times faster than
: Duff.  So why do people spend so much time avoiding standard subroutines?

Try some history, bud; it's good for what ails you.

I doubt that memcpy even existed then; and it is *not* standard
now.  Perhaps it will be several years after the ANSI standard is
adopted, but not till then.

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Bill
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