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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: RE: DOS and WIN/98
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:48:41 +0100
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Joe wrote:
>Well, firstly I have yet to see ANY 32 bit stuff give much
>better performance than 16 bit stuff - sure, sometimes there's a
>little extra performance, but often it's negligible or even negative.

The diffrence for DJPEG was 25-40% (depends on the file used) when I
recompiled it under DJGPP for Arachne. I wouldn't call that little.
Other programs might not give the same good improvment but it's often
better (I disregard small utils here). I haven't done a regular test
between rar and rar32 but you can notice the diffrence if you (un)compress
alot of data without timing it. One of these days I'll need to test
pk(un)zip 2.5 as well with and without DPMI loaded... (And sometime test
arj vs. arj32).
//Bernie