Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 15:04:21 -0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <oandico AT gollum DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: DJGPP Mailing List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: decreasing program loadup time

I am using a DJGPP-compiled program under Win3.1 in a dos box <ugh> in an 
HTTPD script. Other than the usual Windows gripes, this system is *very* 
slow. When somebody requests the daemon, it spawns the DOS box and runs 
the DJGPP program. Unfortunately, it is large (to me) -- around 85K COFF. 
Add on top of that the overhead of GO32 loading, and you have unpalatable 
speed. My program is supposed to take a snapshot of the ``world'' through 
a video camera and spit out a GIF for inclusion in HTTP documents. But if 
it's slow...

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Orly A. Andico                       Instrumentation, Control, and Robotics Lab
oandico AT gollum DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph            Dept of Electrical & Electronics Eng'g
                                          University of the Philippines Diliman
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