From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: `void main' in Gnu packages---?!
Date: 18 Jan 2000 11:21:45 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> 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...

Didn't see the context of this post, but isn't that exactly what
`rawclock' does?
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Nate Eldredge
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