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> > The MMX memcpy for CyrixIII and Athlon boxes is something like twice the
> > speed of rep movs. On most pentium II/III boxes the fast paths for rep movs
> > and for MMX are the same speed
> 
> As long as you are copying in real memory. So the PCI bus or the host bridge
> implementation may be the actual limit.

The CyrixIII sits on the same host bridges as the intel processors
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