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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 01:09:18 +0200
From: Mariano Alvarez Fernández <malfer AT teleline DOT es>
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Subject: Re: About DJGPP v2.02
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Nate wrote:

>> Is there any date or plan to release DJGPP v2.02?
>
>Real Soon Now :)

It's sound great!!!

>> However I tried the alpha 2.02 (980101) and my application run fast
>> and (apparently) reliable, I don't find bugs at the moment.
>
>You don't want to release any code linked with that libc; it has a bug
>whereby all DJGPP programs will instantly crash under Windows.  There
>are several others as well.  The latest alpha (980628) is better, but
>still not perfect.

Yes, it crashed under Windows, I didn't try it. Oops!
I will try the latest alpha.

>Perhaps you can profile the code and find just what was so slow in the
>previous version, then ask specifically.

Yes, I profiled it and all the time is wasted whit __dpmi_int, as the
13.5 in the FAQ says.

This is a comparation among versions of a simple test of my program
(recalculating the cost of 400 pieces of furniture):

16-bit version (BC 3.0) 20"
32-bit version (DJGPP 2.01) 32"
32-bit version (DJGPP 2.02 980101) 11"

The 16 and 32 bit are identical, except I use (in the 32 bit version) a
big memory hash table to remember register key position, the 32 bit
version is very slow without that.

Regards, M.Alvarez (sorry, again, my bad english)