Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 19:01:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
cc: Thomas Knudsen <tk AT geb DOT gfy DOT ku DOT dk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com, eiby AT frontiernet DOT net
Subject: Re: Intermittent Run-Time of DJGPP App under Win95
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> That's the third user reporting a similar thing (the first was the one that 
> says your programs runs faster from inside of RHIDE). Seems that W95 scheduler 
> have some strnage behavior with DJGPP applications.

We need to establish without any doubt that it is indeed due to the 
Windows scheduler.

> Does anybody have an idea on how to meassure it or figure out what exactly is 
> the problem?

One way I could think of is to compare profiles of two runs (slow 
and fast).

Another way would be to write a dedicated program whose sole purpose is 
to test this.  I didn't think long enough about what such a program 
should do.