[Freedos-user] DOS and timing...

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Robinson
Since DOS environments typically don't multitask, there's no need to time applications as they consume CPU resources and preempt them to let other applications run. Modern multi core processors can do real multitasking and don't have to simulate process concurrency. In DOS environments,

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS and timing...

2012-03-28 Thread Zbigniew
2012/3/28, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com: Since DOS environments typically don't multitask, there's no need to time applications as they consume CPU resources and preempt them to let other applications run. [..] Ability to detect heavy CPU load can be important information

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS and timing...

2012-03-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 29-3-2012 1:20, Zbigniew schreef: Ability to detect heavy CPU load can be important information for me, that e.g. I did something wrong (for example, some loop has to be done differently). In-app profiling, or using a debugger maybe, could help. Otherwise, run DOS and your program inside

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS and timing...

2012-03-28 Thread Zbigniew
2012/3/28, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl: In-app profiling, or using a debugger maybe, could help. Otherwise, run DOS and your program inside an emulator (QEMU/Bochs/DosEMU) and get detailed output (timestamped logfiles) from that. But of course using debugger I can check this in its every