From:	firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: How does it work?
Date:	30 Oct 1997 01:00:46 GMT
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Simon DOT zalar AT guest DOT arnes DOT si wrote:
> Hi all!

> I would like to know how to run a program written with DJGPP under DOS.

Type the name of the program at the command line and press enter.

> Is there anything quicker and easyer than DPMI server?

First, you may not use anything but DPMI. Second, there is nothing slow or
uneasy about DPMI. A DOS extender can be insanely complicated (and anyway,
you put onerous restrictions on how a program may be run) and can be
slower.

> How did they do it with Quake?

Obviously, they used DPMI, since the program is compiled with DJGPP.

> I made a proggy that counts from 1 to 10.000 and ran it on win95.
> It took it 9 sec.  I wrote the same program with Qbasic and it
> took only 4.5 sec. Where is the catch?

Mmmhmm. And your conclusion is what? How long did it take to start-up and
initilize QBasic? Did you include this time in the execution time for your
(-extremely- trivial) program? If not, why not? If you timed the execution
of your DJGPP program from enter-press to command prompt, you included
start-up and initilization time for -it-.

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