From: Eric Lange <nospam AT thisaddress DOT please>
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Subject: Re: [Q] Memory Transfers
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 12:19:05 -0700
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David Orme wrote:
> 
> I have two arrays, larger than 64K in size, and I need to copy one to the
> other VERY quickly. A browse through the RHIDE help files gives the
> following as options:
> 
> memcpy
> bcopy
> dosmemget, dosmemput
> dosmemgetb, dosmemputb
> dosmemgetl, dosmemputl
> dosmemgetw, dosmemputw
> movedata
> movedatab
> movedatal
> movedataw
> 
> Quite a list, don't you think?
> 
> My question is: Which is the fastest?
> 
> Thanx in advance...

Well, clearly, get rid of the ones with 'b' or 'w' at the end.  I
haven't checked the assembly, but I believe that 'movedatal' would be
the fastest.  But, make sure that your buffers are on dword boundaries.

Eric

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