From:	"Daniel Urquhart" <urquhartd AT jlcrowe DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: performance
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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:38:43 -0800
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>> I am testing gcc to work instead of Borland C 3.1 but programs are much
>> slower. [snip]
>> I don't understand. Anybody can explain?
>>
>I'm troubled too, but I think that the diference in access speed is that
the
>DJGPP have to switch to real mode to call DOS funcs and it makes your
>program slower. Have you tried make your program disk buffer greater.
>Remember, DJGPP can access much more than 64KB per selector.
>
That's probably right.  Because recently ported a program from Boarland and
it ran much faster.  I't does allmost not disk access though.

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