Re: strcpy vs memcpy
Jerry Coffin wrote:
Well, I'll admit I haven't tested it to be sure, but the idea is
pretty simple: yes, the CPU itself is performing more operations --
but the CPU is so much faster than the memory that it should rarely
matter. A typical word is 4 or 8 bytes, but a typical CPU currently
runs with a multiplier of at least 10:1, and often around 15:1.
Which memory are you talking about? Naturally I'm talking about the L1
cache, ie. the fastest memory, closest to the CPU, which is what the CPU
directly accesses.
I have to admit, though, that I'm not completely sure how the speed of
the L1 cache compares to the speed of the CPU, but given that the
machine opcodes being run by the CPU (ie. the actual program being
executed) come from the L1 cache it would seem odd that the CPU would
run 10 times faster than what the cache can feed it. It would sound like
the CPU would be idle for the majority of the time simply because the L1
cache is too slow to feed it more opcodes to run.
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