Has anyone taken the time to look at the glibc memcpy implementation?  At 
least for my platforms it has made a significant improvement over the asmarm 
version.   (At least for me).

Craig

On Monday 23 March 2009 6:11:03 am vince wrote:
> Sven,
>
> I agree with you, I think this patch will help DirectFB, as it will make
> it independent of the underline libc. This version of memcpy will only
> for for little endian, but that could be changed in the future. In the
> mean time, a simple config directive could be used to filter out
> unsupported targets. I will also try to get a patch working for uClibc
> (when I get some free time).
>
> Regards,
>
> Vince
>
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:16 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 09:54 +0100, Marc Titinger wrote:
> > > on imx31 I got similar times with Vince's routine and a glibc-small
> > > memcpy(), with a 4.1.2 g++ from codesourcery, (doing raw memcopies in
> > > a test binary).
> >
> > So then it looks like the uClibC implementation of memcpy has some
> > potential for improvement while the glibc implementation seems to
> > provide performance comparable to Vince's implementation.
> >
> > I think we should still get this patch into DirectFB. Vince, you said
> > that there might be some more tests needed as your code doesn't deal
> > with all possible ARM platforms?
> >
> >
> > Sven
> >
> >
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