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Re: Executor 2beta0 runs faster?



>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Ho <a484howa@cdf.toronto.edu> writes:

    Rick> According to the benchmark program included with Executor
    Rick> 1.99q/2.0b0, Executor v2 beta 0 runs just under four times
    Rick> as fast as Executor 1.99q.  However, most of you report
    Rick> slower performance with v2 beta 0. Can someone explain why.

Try 1.99q with:

executor -nosound -oldtimer

and see if that's much faster for you.  The old sound library was
doing continuous DMA, and the timer code was causing thousands of
protected mode/real mode mode switches per second.

The slower performance that's been reported has been relative to
1.99q12, and turns out to be (at least in one case) because of
different Win95 settings.

-Mat


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