On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:35, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Replace those unaligned copies with a word-wise or even bytewise copying. > Not good for performance but ... Depends on (src^dest) & 3. Glibc may have the code you need to get it right, although it will also depend on how smart the cpu cache is - if you have a write through cache then shift/mask/write in 32/64 chunks may be fastest Alan