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by josefx 1736 days ago
Linus seems to consider rep mov still too slow for small copies:

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196054&curpost...

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=196054&curpost...

It seems to me that rep move is so bad that you want to avoid it, but trying to write a fast generic memcpy results in so much bloat to handle edge cases that rep move remains competitive in the generic case.