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BBC bypasses Linux kernel to make streaming videos flow

Cynic_999

Re: Smells funny

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I can't see a couple of memcpy() calls being responsible for 90% of the CPU time

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Executing one CPU instruction is unlikely to take longer than copying 3 words of data from one place to another, and will often take less time. IP data is not 32 bit aligned and block copy operations are often forced to use 16 or even 8 bit words even if the bus width is 64 bits due to source and destination address misalignment. So copying a kB of data from one memory location two or three times is in fact far more time-consuming than executing a hundred or so instructions (which is about all it takes to format a TCP/IP header). So yes. I can easily see the copying operations taking up 90% of the total time.

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