Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:36:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, terry@cs.weber.edu, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: new install(1) utility Message-ID: <199504042336.QAA04227@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199504042323.RAA07968@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 4, 95 05:23:08 pm
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> I wonder if this is the case for non-x86 machines as well, since I > suspect memcpy() uses the fast string routines available on x86 > machines. The trick is that you use page-faults instead of read() to get to the file. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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