[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Copying data in memory is always expensive because the accesses may miss in the caches and data must be fetched from memory. As far as I know this can be around 150 cycles per cache line.
When the copy is sequential, the processor will prefetch the data ahead of time, so you don't get the full hit.
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