Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 16:00:09 -0400 From: DJ Delorie To: blumer AT ptltd DOT com Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: djgpp and 386max In 1.10, on some DPMI hosts (386max is one, qemm isn't), you start off by using up 4+ Mb of memory just for the program, because the DPMI host isn't smart enough to realize that the big gap between code and data isn't being used. 1.11 uses a different executable footprint to reduce this waste. Note also that allocating 1000 1024-byte chunks is *not* the same as allocating one 1024000 byte chunk. There's overhead on each request you make, so you end up using more memory than you expect. DJ