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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Michael Zanyat <ledana AT netway DOT at>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:13:06 +0000
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Subject: Re: Fast memory
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Michael Zanyat <ledana AT netway DOT at> wrote:

> Is there a difference in memory access speed using nearptr or other
> methods?
> Or better: What is the fastest way (memory) for virtual screens and
> VGA(13h)?
If you will use a virtual video screen nearptrs aren't much better than using 
the functions to copy blocks to the DOS memory. That's because the overhead is 
small.
I found that farptrs is as fast as nearptrs even if your transfers are 300 
bytes long.

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