Re: [PATCH] optimize ia32 memmove

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> The non-overlapping cases are probably very common and worth optimizing for:

No, almost all non-overlapping users already just use "memcpy()". 

So most of the kernel uses of "memmove()" are likely overlapping - and 
just optimizing the non-overlap case probably doesn't help a lot.

That's why you optimize the overlapping case in one direction. We really 
should do the other case right too.

		Linus
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