in one reasonably fast instruction. */
#define MOVE_MAX 4
-/* MOVE_RATIO is the number of move instructions that is better than a
- block move. Make this large on clipper, since the block move is very
+/* If a memory-to-memory move would take MOVE_RATIO or more simple
+ move-instruction pairs, we will do a movstr or libcall instead.
+
+ Make this large on clipper, since the block move is very
inefficient with small blocks, and the hard register needs of the
block move require much reload work. */