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From:	"Alex Oleynikov" <alex AT compuweigh DOT com>
To:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Memory accessing performance
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:34:27 -0500
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Hi everybody!

I've got a question related to memory accessing performance when using DPMI.
Currently I am developing an application which talks to PLCs via Modbus
protocol and I need to create a map of Modbus registers in my program.
Every register is two bytes of data and there are quite a few of them (up to
50000). First thing that comes to the mind is to use dynamic arrays of short
integers, but wouldn't it be much slower compared to 32-bit integers? (since
the compiler generates a 32-bit code which is more efficient accessing
32-bit memory locations, right?). Those registers must be updated about
every 250ms, so I'd rather sacrifice size to gain performance.

Any feedback is welcome.

Regards,
Alex

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