Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Fw: framebuffer blitting performance loss 2.6.12 -> 2.6.13-rc3

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> "Antonino A. Daplas" <ad...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >     fbdev: Replace memcpy with for-loop when preparing bitmap
> 
> Whee, progress.  Please let me know if/when you want this sent to Linus.

Before you do I like to know memcpy is slower than byte by byte copying. 
This just seems to be wrong!