Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:34:46 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Can a DOS Console App close its own window?
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On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Endlisnis wrote:

>     Is it faster (under Win95) to call 'literal int' than dpmi_int?

The answer (as always with Microsoft) is probably ``it depends''.  It
probably depends on which function of what iterrupt do you invoke like
this.  I could easily imagine that some functions would be faster if
invoked via __dpmi_int, since at least some of the thunking layers
(through which Windows goes while processing real-mode interrupts) are
bypassed.

But I really don't know, since I never tried to time these.
Personally, I usually prefer to call __dpmi_int in all cases, for the
reason that it is safer.