Sujet : Re: Why VAX Was the Ultimate CISC and Not RISC
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 13. Mar 2025, 01:03:15
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:09:15 +0200, Michael S wrote:
I don't know why gnu memcpy is huge.
Full of special cases, for speed.
Back in the old MacOS days, there was a system routine called BlockMove
(plus later BlockMoveData), that similarly got larger over time as it got
faster.