Re: [Freedos-devel] Slowdown-Units ratings and a CPU-bound depacker benchmark

2023-03-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hi, am Dienstag, 21. März 2023 um 23:26 schrieben Sie: > Hello! The article is found at > https://pushbx.org/ecm/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=blog:pushbx:2023:0321_cpu_performance_comparison I mostly agree with you and your article, but: >Conclusion >CPU-bound benchmarks are much faster on a modern

[Freedos-devel] Slowdown-Units ratings and a CPU-bound depacker benchmark

2023-03-21 Thread C. Masloch
Hello! Inspired by recent discussions on the list I prepared an article about Bret's SLOWDOWN, its Slowdown-Units rating, and a comparison of two different depackers on three different machines. I believe that the depackers are a better test case for how fast a CPU actually is, because they

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-21 Thread Liam Proven
BTW, it's taken me ages to find this -- Google really is rubbish these days -- but I thought that this link might help to set modern computer speeds in context. "Latency numbers every programmer should know -- humanized" https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile:

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-21 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 at 02:36, Michael Brutman wrote: > > I'm confused by this. You are claiming that a 350 Mhz K6-2 is "WAY" faster > than a 3.3 GHz i5? In what respect? You are very much not alone. There is a _lot_ of caching involved in modern computer architectures, of course. There needs

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr Rugxulo, am Montag, 20. März 2023 um 23:20 schrieben Sie: > Hi again, > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson 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

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:20 PM Rugxulo wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 5:06 PM Bret Johnson 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

Re: [Freedos-devel] mode.com

2023-03-21 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
Le sam., 18 mars 2023 10:49:48 -0400 a écrit > Hi all, > > sometimes trying to write FD help makes me crazy. > > Mode is a typical example. At > https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/mode/-/blob/master/DOC/MODE/MODE.TXT [...] > If I understand this right, the actual errorlevels

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: mode.com

2023-03-21 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Ralf,thank you for this information, it confirms me a little, but I am not sure what to do.Adding both with a hint, but this would be embarrassing to me and the rest of the group.Or should I simply take out the whole errorcode sequence?Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android