On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 01:43  PM, David Laight wrote:

> My Athlon 700 gains about 1.5% on 8k aligned calls.
> For 20 byte aligned transfers the gain is 38%
> For 20 byte misaligned transfers the gain is 29%

Can you make the same tweaks to memset()?  That is what we prefer to 
use these days, after all :-)

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>