From: Rez Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allegro gone missing? Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 18:18:20 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <380282EA DOT 3E6A AT earthlink DOT net> <38063D49 DOT 12D7 AT earthlink DOT net> X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-ELN-Date: 18 Oct 1999 01:15:31 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Sun Oct 17 18:25:01 1999 Organization: Offworld Press Lines: 18 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust198.tnt3.lancaster.ca.da.uu.net Message-ID: <380A755C.1D1F@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win16; I) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> BSP is a naked textmode DOS app, very CPU-intensive but with very little >> display output (a spinner and a few lines of text). Is that of any >> significance wrt this case's 10% performance difference? > In addition, if the setup of the machine under the two DPMI servers > being compared is different, it might well be that the difference has > nothing to do with the DPMI server per se. For example, if one > configuration runs the machine in V86 mode and the other in the true > real mode, the mode-switch overhead is *much* larger in the real-mode > setup, no matter what DPMI host is in use. In this case what it was running on were absolutely identical other than the DPMI host, being it was the same machine and the same boot config. All I did was type DPMI OFF at the prompt to disable DRDOS's DPMI prior to using CWSDPMI as the host. Do you mean switching within the app? ~REZ~