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In article <1359@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>$In article <1944@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) pointed out
>$that printf could be recoded to run much faster.
>...
>$strcpy2(ss1,ss2)
>$char *ss1,*ss2;<---------------------------- put "register" on this line
>${	register char *s1,*s2;<-------------- as many compilers will use this
>$					      as local variables overriding
>$	s1 = ss1;			      the arguments.
>$	s2 = ss2;
>$	while (*s1++ = *s2++);	}
>
>I'm going to try these on some of the machines I use, and see if this
>will speed up things.

To further speed this up you could write it as:

	strcpy2(ss1,ss2)
	register char *ss1, *ss2;
	{
	    while (*s1++ = *s2++)
	    ;
	}

thus eliminating two assignments and two local variables.

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