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Robert AH Prins wrote:
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> Below is a replacement for the TP/BP MOVE() routine. Two versions are given,
> one a replacement for the routine in the TP6 RTL (and likely the TP/BP7) the
> other as an assmbler procedure to be used if you don't have the RTL sources:
[ good code snipped ]

Robert! It really seems to me, you are spending lot of effort in
improving the 16 Bit (isn't it?) MOVE of PASCAL. But why always just in
32 bit code?
I compared your optimized MOVE with my primitive MMX MOVE, and the
results for 64000 Bytes were 1.1msec against 0.6 msec! That is 56 MB/sec
against 100 MB/sec.
WHY does none of YOU, who HAVE the ability to write a professional MOVE
use these extended features? Because you think, there are still these
without MMX? We can support both!
And what about using 80 bit FP instructions to move memory? I once
heared, this would be possible, too; and could be even more faster than
these MMX instructions with only 64 bit!

I really would like do write such MOVEs, but I'm afraid, I cannot manage
all these aligning things and so on... But if there would be anybody
interested in a cooperation to develop an optimized 64 or 80 bit MOVE,
I'd join!

regards
-- 
Arno Fehm (afehm@bigfoot.de)

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