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optimisation is the root of all evil&quot; [4]. So the question
must be asked: was our optimisation premature? To put this in
perspective the timings for our version of copy compared a
conventional generic copy[5] are shown in table 1.</p>

<p>Clearly the optimisation makes a difference in this case; but,
to be fair, the timings are loaded to exclude cache miss effects
- without this accurate comparison between algorithms becomes
difficult. However, perhaps we can add a couple of caveats to the
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