memcpy performance differences between 32 and 64 bit processes

Question

We have Core2 machines (Dell T5400) with XP64.

We observe that when running 32-bit processes, the performance of memcpy is on the order of 1.2GByte/s; however memcpy

Answer 1

Here's an example of a memcpy routine geared specifically for 64 bit architecture.

void uint8copy(void *dest, void *src, size_t n){
    uint64_t * ss = (uint64_t)src;
    uint64_t * dd = (uint64_t)dest;
    n = n * sizeof(uint8_t)/sizeof(uint64_t); 

    while(n--)
        *dd++ = *ss++;
}//end uint8copy()

The full article is here: http://www.godlikemouse.com/2008/03/04/optimizing-memcpy-routines/