> Strcpy has to iterate through all the elements because it copies them. This would happen regardless. It doesn't do strlen. Iterate all the elements and copy

> Strcpy has to iterate through all the elements because it copies them. This would happen regardless. It doesn't do strlen. Iterate all the elements and copy a fixed size is two very different things. strcpy has to read, byte for byte, and check it for null (which is exactly what strlen does). A "real" copy would just blindly copy a chunk of memory with no other processing on it. The speed difference is huge.