Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/08/19/13:45:20
> >From the recursive make discussion, I'd gathered that Windows DPMI is
> better than QDPMI in the amount of conventional memory it needs. I'd
> vaguely assumed this meant that it was accidentally well-written.
Windows requests a much smaller chunk of dos memory for per-program
storage than QDPMI does, about 6K vs 100K. That doesn't mean they're
better, just that they at least store their data in extended memory.
> >Actually, I think the idea is to not be using any dpmi at all.
>
> So is VCPI faster than DPMI? Or am I missing some point here?
Some functions of go32 just don't work under DPMI, and some work
different.
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