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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991017141953 DOT 25053R-100000 AT is...

Where is il?

>
> Even a program that does nothing except being parked in an idle loop
> involves the DPMI server, since there's a timer tick every 55 msec,
> which triggers a mode switch (to reflect the interrupt to its default
> real-mode handler).
>
> 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.

Oh, BTW, Eli meant the mode switches between real and
protected mode that happen hundreds or thousands of
times a second, several times each interrupt.

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