OpenEuphoria

Re: Dos32Lib Update

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM> Nov 21, 1998
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Jesus writes:
>Turtle-checking on my old 386SX-16, does not give the
> impression of a big speedup. Although I haven't taken
> the chrono yet, the long loading time for the interpreter is
> still there.

David Cuny writes:
> The actual graphics on a 386 seemed to be a bit sluggish,
> but not unacceptably slow.

I wonder if David had a 386DX. The SX is really a 16-bit
machine that has to read and write 32-bit quantities in
two 16-bit steps (plus 16MHz is pretty pathetic).
ex.exe runs in 32-bit protected mode and makes
heavy use of 32-bit addresses and numbers. This is bad news
on a 16-bit machine. Euphoria seemed to run ok for me
on SX's but I never did any benchmark comparisons.

The long loading time could be partly due to ex.exe being a
compressed executable. On a 486 or Pentium the
loading decompression is fast, and is offset by the
reduced disk I/O. On a 386-16 the decompression
will take much longer. The speed of CPU's has increased
by a much greater ratio than the speed of hard disks over the
past several years.

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/