Yes, it would. However, cp's -t option is an extension to the standards and is not available on many systems, including OS X (which is the OS I use when testing suggestions I submit to this site).

If your system provides the -t option to cp, use it. It will be faster than using a shell script to rearrange the arguments to move the destination directory to the end of the operand list. If you need a portable solution that will work with all implementations of cp, using a shell script to rearrange the operands may be faster than invoking cp for each file to be moved. Where the tipping point is will vary based on the number of and sizes of the files being copied, and on many factors that will vary from system to system including the number of active users and what they are doing, the value of {ARG_MAX}, the I/O bandwidth, the types of file systems and the underlying hardware used for the source and destination directories, etc.