memcpy versus assignment

[Scott Amspoker]

I recall a '286 C compiler that generated a series of MOVS instructions
to move structures.  I figured that for small structures this was
faster than the overhead required to call a memcpy() routine.  Just
for yuks one day I defined a structure with a 1000 element int array
in it.  The C compiler generated tons and tons of MOVS instructions (talk
about un-rolling a loop :-).

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Scott Amspoker
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