allocating 1200MB a peice (2.4GB total) two zero-initialized memory blocks Time: 3840.805033MB/s change all values of allocated memory 1 element at a time Time: 2507.197747MB/s copy array a to array b Time: 2975.253330MB/s copy array a to array b in incrementing steps of 32MB Time: 2988.598547MB/s copy array a to array b in incrementing steps of 128MB Time: 2988.580593MB/s copy array a to array b 1 element at a time (dumb test) Time: 1947.587183MB/s free arrays Time: 0.094334 Done.