Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:36:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bill Currie <bill_currie AT MAIL DOT TAIT DOT CO DOT NZ>
Cc: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Opinion
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On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Bill Currie wrote:

> What about a bios swap file (like windows) or partition? Sure, it limits swap
> space to a fixed amout, but it should be faster than dos.

Are you sure it will be significantly faster?  AFAIK, the BIOS is one of 
the causes of the slow real-mode disk I/O, because it ties the processor 
until the operation completes.

Going to the BIOS level also means CWSDPMI will have to implement a disk
cache (because third-party caches operate at the DOS/IOCTL level); 
without a cache I think you will see a slow-down rather than a speed-up.