[Liboil] a copy8x8_u8

[Adam D. Moss]

David Schleef wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 08:07:55PM +0000, Adam D. Moss wrote:
>>Unrolling copy8x8_u8_ints yields a ~30% speedup here (I guess
>>gcc4 doesn't bother).  Using uint64_t is surprisingly a little
>>slower than this.  I don't actually use this function, I was just
>>curious - perhaps no-one uses it, so more implementations aren't
>>justified.
> 
> I encourage any contribution along these lines, but it would
> be wise to create patches and put them in bugzilla, otherwise
> I'll forget.

Okay, I'll bare that in mind for the future (didn't know liboil
had a bugzilla).

> (and don't forget to run 'make check' to make sure the
> implementations work correctly in all (ahem, many) cases.

Excellent, didn't know about 'make check'.  Glad it exists. :)

--adam
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