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To: gclarkii@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Pentium bcopy 486DX-66 results 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Dec 95 00:21:25 CST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 22:27:16 -0800
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>Here are my results on a 486DX4-100 8 meg in X not sure about cache.
>
>gcc -m486 -O2 -o testcopy testing.c copy.o
>main:gclarkii# time testcopy
>copy 10232
>bcopy 2403
>memcpy 9315
>21.9u 0.0s 0:22.08 99.5% 5+183k 1+0io 0pf+0w
>
>My sources are using 1024 for SIZE and I just change copy for bcopy for the
>bcopy stats.  It looks like copy is a big loss for me...:(

   "copy" takes it's size in longwords and bcopy takes it in bytes. Did you
multiply the size times sizeof(int)?

-DG