Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:08:32 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: QBallLives <qballlives AT aol DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: :Memory Exhausted
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On 22 Mar 1998, QBallLives wrote:

> btw... (not that this is referring to YOUR post) - a Pentium is NOT 4 times
> faster than my 486.... it's FORTY (40) times faster.... 

This is a *wild* exaggeration.  Please post any speed measurements
that you can come up with to back up this claim.

I have measured DJGPP performance when compiling programs on 486DX2/66
vs P166, both in plain DOS (no Windows).  The test case was a large
(4000 lines) C program.  The ratio of the compilation times was about
1:4.  I got similar results with other benchmarks where I have run
real-life programs which excercise CPU, memory, and the disk I/O
intensively.

> I've been
> getting alot of e-mail telling me my computer must be messed up....

Not ``messed up'', just sub-optimal.