Paul Rubin wrote: > repz movsw is a pretty lame way to copy data on current x86's. > Use XMM instead.
Thank you, Paul. I'm pretty sure you meant MMX, Multi-Media eXtensions. Paul's just told me to upgrade my 32-bit thinking to use newer 64-bit registers, even on a 32-bit cpu. Please divide my prior timings by two. Pentium or later required. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list