From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: allegro gone missing?
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:10:51 -0500
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Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com> wrote:
> Prashant TR <prashant_news AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > The speed is due to file cacheing and other features
> > of Windows 95. I don't know if you could ever measure
> > the speed of a DPMI host. How did you do it, anyway ?
>
> For some reason I find that compiling in DOS under CWSDPMI
> is takes about twice as long as compiling in Windows under its
> DPMI server. When compiling under CWSDPMI, the compilation
> does more disk thrashing than usual (noticeably more).

Before you run RHIDE or make, try typing at C:\>
smartdrv c+
Compiling in gcc uses a lot of different EXE files, and
Windows by default caches them in memory.


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