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From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: V2 = hmmm
Date:	Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:22:47 CDT
Organization:	Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> Its takes a LOT more memory (I could compile programs with
> v1.12 with my 8M .. now I run out of Vmemory .. 

V2 takes no more physical memory than V1.x does, so this must be a 
configuration problem.  GCC 2.7 may take more memory, but if thats the
problem just use 2.6.3 instead (it's not a V1.x vs V2.x problem)

> And is it really a good thing having to deal with a DPMI host all the time?

It's a better thing than having to deal with GO32 all the time.  If you 
already have DPMI (like Win/OS2/etc are REQUIRED to use) you save around 130K
per program in low DOS memory with V2 vs V1.  CWSDPMI is smaller than GO32,
so even if a DPMI is not available you still use less memory.

> (I'm running Win95 and linux, using DJGPP within w95 of course; 

Ah, the culprit.  Win95.  MS decided to limit the amount of DPMI memory
for an application by default to some very small value.  Change it to 65535
(hand type it in, it's too stupid to think anyone would want more than
16Mb of memory).  Well, at this point I could flame you for blaming your
problems on the free product when they are actually in the commercial 
product, but instead I'll trust you will call MS and complain, right? :-)

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