A method and apparatus for efficiently transferring a data block of bytes from a source to a destination in memory of a computer system. The method transfers bytes in multiple-byte words on word-aligned boundaries of memory as much as possible to reduce the number of fetches and writes and the number...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6026239?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6026239 - Run-time code compiler for data block transfer