From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What is a good DJGPP editor?
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:25:48 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Kieran Farrell wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, borland makes much smaller and faster exe's.
> 
> Smaller: sometimes (especially for small toy proigrams).  Faster: no
> way!

It might be faster in severely I/O-bound programs.  i.e. `cat' could be
a bit faster in Borland C than in DJGPP, because the mode switch
involves some overhead.  If you do any crunching, though, you should see
a speedup with DJGPP.
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Nate Eldredge
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