Re: faster strcpy()

Samuel Leo (samuel@public.szonline.net)
Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:55:59 +0800 (BJT)


On Fri, 24 Apr 1998 umforema@cc.UManitoba.CA wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a libc thing or a kernel thing, but I noticed
> that strcpy is in the kernel include files, so here goes...
> I changed the definition of strcpy in /usr/include/string.h to
>
> #define strcpy(a,b) (char *)memcpy(a,b,strlen(b))
must be strlen(b) + 1
>
> It slightly more than doubles the speed of strcpy on my pentium machine.
>
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