char[] to hex string exercise

Question

Below is my current char* to hex string function. I wrote it as an exercise in bit manipulation. It takes ~7ms on a AMD Athlon MP 2800+ to hexify a 10 million byte array. Is

Answer 1

Consistently getting ~4ms on my Athlon 64 4200+ (~7ms with original code)

for( const unsigned char* pChar = _pArray; pChar != pEnd; pChar++) {
    const char* pchars = _hex2asciiU_value[*pChar];
    *pszHex++ = *pchars++;
    *pszHex++ = *pchars;
}