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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 09:10:35 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com>
To: pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Stub answers & why 1.08 isn't 1.07 compatible

>What is "Objective C"?

It's an extension on C that NeXT uses.

>BTW, this performance increase - I assume it only affects how quickly
>the program starts up.  Or does it have effect later on as well?

The new paging algorithm will re-use pages from the original EXE
instead of swapping unchanged pages to the paging file, if the page
has never been written to.  Thus, when you're paging, performance is
slightly better also.  This new method also saves on the number of
disk writes required while paging out, and reserves some pages for
page tables, to reduce PT thrashing.  Overall, paging is much more
tolerable.

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