faster memcpy on StrongARM machine?

[Gernot Frisch]

Hi,

I saw that the PocketHAL library has a faster memcpy for large blocks
on an StrongARM processor. Can anyone give me the source for such a
memcpy?

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[Pete C.]

Gernot Frisch wrote:

Hi,

I saw that the PocketHAL library has a faster memcpy for large blocks
on an StrongARM processor. Can anyone give me the source for such a
memcpy?

It's probably in Assembler, but such platform-specific things are off-topic
here. You might try asking Thierry over on the forums for PHAL on
pocketmatrix.com.

- Pete

[Thomas Matthews]

Pete C. wrote:

Gernot Frisch wrote:

Hi,

I saw that the PocketHAL library has a faster memcpy for large blocks
on an StrongARM processor. Can anyone give me the source for such a
memcpy?

It's probably in Assembler, but such platform-specific things are off-topic
here. You might try asking Thierry over on the forums for PHAL on
pocketmatrix.com.

- Pete

[Off-Topic]
A faster memcpy involves using conditional execution and
also the block load and store instructions.

Here is a sample:
memcpy_byte
STMFD sp!,{r0-r3} ; Save registers (ARM / 32-bit mode)
ANDS R2, R2, R2 ; Set up condition codes (Z / NZ)
memcpy_loop
LDRNEB R3, [R1], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Load value from source
(and increment).
STRNEB R3, [R0], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Store fill value into
[r0] & incr R0.
SUBNES R2, R2, #1 ; if R2 != 0, decrement R2
LDRNEB R3, [R1], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Load value from source
(and increment).
STRNEB R3, [R0], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Store fill value into
[r0] & incr R0.
SUBNES R2, R2, #1 ; if R2 != 0, decrement R2
LDRNEB R3, [R1], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Load value from source
(and increment).
STRNEB R3, [R0], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Store fill value into
[r0] & incr R0.
SUBNES R2, R2, #1 ; if R2 != 0, decrement R2
LDRNEB R3, [R1], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Load value from source
(and increment).
STRNEB R3, [R0], #1 ; if R2 != 0, Store fill value into
[r0] & incr R0.
SUBNES R2, R2, #1 ; if R2 != 0, decrement R2
BNE memcpy_loop ; loop around if more bytes to process.
LDMFD sp!,{r0-r3} ; Restore registers (ARM / 32-bit mode)
BX R14 ; Return to caller.
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