Hi again, On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > This is something much more serious than a "tradeoff" or a > "regression". My new i5 CPU appears to be spending _at least_ 99% > of its resources NOT processing OpCodes and NOT accessing the > cache (because there isn't one). And the problem is blamed on > "sub-optimal code". I don't know what the CPU is doing with all > those resources it has, but I do know what it's NOT doing. I do know > that what's going on inside a CPU is very complicated. Call me naive, > but I always thought the primary purpose of a CPU was to process > OpCodes. Silly me. > > >> I think it probably > >> would be -- I certainly think it would be WAY faster than my 3.3 GHz > >> i5. > > > nope. > > Even though a 350 MHz K6-2 is WAY faster than my 3.3 GHz i5? > And again, I know it doesn't make any sense, but it's still true.
Self-modifying code?? (joking) Or maybe you have FDAPM loaded? ;-) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
