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Subject: Re: Win-XP benchmarks: Slower than Win2K

Author: Ratko V Tomic

Date: 00:51:28 11/03/01

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> I had Win98SE & WinXP is MUCH,MUCH faster so I think
> I made a smart choice.

Win9x versions are internally entirely different from
Win NT/2k/XP. The great deal of Win9x functionality
operates in 16 bit mode, using the the 32-bit wrapper
(for win32 API) which "thunks" down to the 16-bit code
to perform its requests. This flawed architecture causes
many instabilities and memory leaks (unreleased blocks
of memory after programs exit), requiring frequent
reboots to clean up the accumulated junk.



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