Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:26:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Paul Byrne <byrne AT katie DOT vnet DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: profiling problems...
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On 13 Feb 1998, Paul Byrne wrote:

> The good news is that after getting the patched libc
> this dropped to a much more reasonable factor of 3.
> Something in those patches seems to have done the trick!

This figures.  The bug caused the profiled program to access a bogus 
address.  Doing so in a v86 mode will usually cause exceptions which will 
cause a mighty slow-down.