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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:57:16 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: tom young <tyoung AT netaxis DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Slooooww Iooooo -- Please help.
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, tom young wrote:

> I am using dos-gcc on Linux to cross-compile my Roth IRA Calculator
> program to MSDOS.   DJGPP is terrific, but for some reason the
> program runs about ten times as fast under Linux as under DOSEMU
> or Windows 95.

This most probably means that you don't have a disk cache installed.
Install SmartDrv (which comes with DOS) with a large enough cache (see
section 3.9 in the FAQ for recommendations) and you will see dramatic
improvements in the runtime performance.

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