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Re:Arm AArch64 Adds Memcpy() Instructions by josefx on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @03:34AM (#28602827)
Linus seems to consider rep mov still too slow for small copies:

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196054&curpost...

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196054&curpost...

It seems to me that rep move is so bad that you want to avoid it, but trying to write a fast generic memcpy results in so much bloat to handle edge cases that rep move remains competitive in the generic case.

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