From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: `void main' in Gnu packages---?!
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 06:38:15 +0200
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't this accounting add a lot of additional overhead to these calls,
> though? __dpmi_int() in particular is used frequently enough to be a
> major performance bottleneck in some situations.

All you need to do is to farpeekb at the BIOS data area where the BIOS tick
count is maintained.  I'm sure we can sustain a few simple instructions...