Re: copying memory in phobos

[Mike]

On Tuesday, 8 April 2014 at 14:59:35 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
'memcoy' being a built-in compiler intrinsic means that when 
the compiler
sees a 'memcpy' call, it does some checks (eg is the length 
statically
known and small enough?) and then can generated the copy 
instructions
directly, instead of calling the lib function.

Then it could do such magic in the _d_arraycopy function where 
the call to memcpy exists.  I'm still not seeing the motivation 
behind putting this call to memcpy in Phobos.