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> Moving 64 bytes per cycle is faster on Sandy Bridge, but slower on
> Westmere. Any preference? ;)

You have to be careful with these benchmarks.

- You need to make sure the data is cache cold, cache hot is misleading.
- The numbers can change if you have multiple CPUs doing this in parallel.

-Andi