OpenEuphoria

Re: Dos32Lib Update

• Posted by Jesus Consuegra <jconsuegra at REDESTB.ES> Nov 21, 1998
• 978 views

Robert:

>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.


Do  not take it as a criticism. I use to run all the programs under the
386SX-16 (just pathetic, as you said), because is a reference point and a
way to see an still image like view of the program running. Current Pentiums
are so blindly fast that one cannot realize the steps the loading process
takes. This is sometimes helpful for me, to help to identify the bottlenecks
or the poor design on the GUI.
Jesus.