Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:37:07 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: 0xA000 plot pixels questions in 13h mode
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On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Neil Goldberg wrote:

> Yes, _dos_ds is good for all _far* accesses. What I usually do is assign
> it to a local variable... it's a function call that can be avoided.

What function call overhead did you have in mind?  `_dos_ds' is a
variable, not a function.  (Actually, it's a macro, defined by
<go32.h>, because the real name of the variable is too long to
type...)