Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:43:39 03/05/98
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On March 05, 1998 at 12:29:24, Albert Silver wrote: >Well, I can't comment on Genius 5 as I don't have it, but I have noticed >a similiar (80% difference on the average) performance hit when running >Mchess 7.01 in DOS as opposed to Win95. I can assure that it is not due >to any TSRs or other software running in the background as if I call up >the special Rebel9 windows shortcut it runs almost identically in speed >as when run in DOS. I have no explanation for it but I can give you test >suite results with the resource monitor's results as well for your >examination. I don't know what machines you guys are using, but perhaps this will shed a little light. I had a Gateway Pentium Pro 200 mhz machine with Windows '95 factory installed, and I tried running my program on it, and I was very disappointed by how badly it ran. I didn't write down how slow it went, because I didn't see any reason to, but it was noticeably extremely slow. The next day I put NT on it, and the thing went like a bomb. At the WMCCC Jakarta 1996, Stefan showed up with a Pentium Pro 200 running Windows '95. I let him run Shredder on my NT box and he noticed a speedup there, as well. Both of these programs were 32-bit. I have a PII/300 running Windows '95 now, and my program goes maybe 50% faster on it than it does on the Pentium Pro 200 with NT, so this machine doesn't seem to have the same problem. bruce
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