Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 13:17:38 03/05/98
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On March 05, 1998 at 13:46:21, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >A plausible explanation for this strange behavior might be that task >switches under Windows NT/95 badly thrash some CPU internals (caches, >pipelines, branch prediction units etc.) -- I remember having read >some tests which suggest exactly this. Some integer-bound applications >therefore seem to run much slower under Windows NT/95 than under DOS. > >=Ernst= If you're referring to the results published in the German c't magazine: I remember that NT did much better on most tests than 95. But surprisingly, the difference was quite big (in the 30% somethings) between both. I don't remember if they tested DOS, but I doub't it (since Mathematica, Photoshop etc. don't run on DOS ...). Moritz
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