Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 09:46:32 07/14/98
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On July 14, 1998 at 12:24:08, Christophe Theron wrote: > ... >And one more thing: I'm quite sure that Tiger would be a little bit faster if it >was a 16 bits (DOS or Windows) application. So why did I use 32 bits? Because it >is a little bit trickier to program a large application in 16 bits, and I was a >little bit too lazy for that. I guess that you are wrong, Christophe. A few weeks ago, I restored an old 16 Bit version of Comet for a comparison match with the new version. On my K6/233, the old 16Bit version really heavily suffered regarding performance (a loss of the order of 30 - 50 %). It seems to me that the new processor architectures heavily penalize 16 Bit applications. May be, someone really knows. Uli > >As you see, things are not as simple as: "16 bits DOS programs suck". > > > Christophe
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