Ricsi (Richard Menedetter) wrote (in part):
> MP> I want Arachne to be faster than Netscape 4.7, because Mozilla
(future
> MP> Netscape 5.0) is reported to be much faster, even faster than MSIE
5.0
> MP> (which is pretty fast, to be true...)
> Good luck !
> (but IMHO this will be extremely hard for you, because of the
limitations of
> realmode DOS, this is the reason why I would love to have an additional
> Arachne/386 with DJGPP)
It is hard for me to imagine a program of reasonable size that would
be faster under DJGPP. A program that goes off by itself and does some-
thing "computationally intense" (e.g. inverting a huge matrix) might be
minutely faster because an "override byte" is required for 32-bit oper-
ations in real mode. In the "real world" of interrupts and task switches,
a program would be substantially slower. This doesn't even consider the
monster-sized programs produced by the "gcc" compiler!
Ken Martwick
