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I now removed my _dpmi_int calls from my program but still 80-90% of
the processing time is done for _dpmi_int. Does djgpp call this
internally?

I use int86() to query the mouse and getch() plus bioskey() to query
the keyboard. Could these functions cause this?

Georg

Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> On 26.05.2012 20:34, Georg wrote:
> > I tried gprof to profile one of my programs. This is the ouput:
> >
> > Flat
> > profile:
> >
> > Each sample counts as 0.0555556
> > seconds.
> >    %   cumulative   self              self
> > total
> >   time   seconds   seconds    calls  Ts/call  Ts/call
> > name
> >   87.39     11.56    11.56
> > __dpmi_int
> [...]
>
> > My question is: is it normal that a djgpp program uses 87% for
> > __dpmi_int?
>
> It can be, depending on what the program does.  For a program that's
> spends a lot of its work in real-mode interrupts (like BIOS and DOS
> services) it's normal.  For computation-heavy ones, it wouldn't be.

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