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Re: Rob: Bug with Windows trasking translator

• Posted by Vincent <darkvincentdude at yahoo.com> Feb 15, 2006
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Robert Craig wrote:
 
> I had profile_time'd this demo earlier, and found that
> 96% of the time was spent, not in sorting, but rather 
> in the Watcom DOS routine for drawing line segments. 
> I had also noticed that it ran much faster when 
> translated/compiled with DJGPP + Allegro (sorry, no exact timings).
> Anyway, the demo now runs *much* faster (5.7x) with Open Watcom 1.4
> than with the old Watcom 10.6. I measured the ex.exe interpreter,
> but the translator shows a similar, perhaps a tad better,
> speed-up. This speed-up will likely affect some other DOS graphics 
> programs, but I wouldn't expect a big speed-up on typical programs. 
> I'll do some more benchmarking soon.

Interesting...

Any speed up with Windows programs? Perhaps also benchmark the DOS time()
function to see if that speed-up any? You could also try a sieve test and see if
that speed up a tiny bit on both DOS and Windows?

Now that you're using the latest Watcom, you can see about removing Watcom 10.6
bug work around code too. That may help improve overall performance even more.


Excellent,
Vincent