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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandon 486, DesqView, Landmark Speedbar question
Message-ID: <1781@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Nov 89 16:34:11 GMT
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <2670PICHER@MAINE> PICHER@MAINE.BITNET (Michael W. Picher) writes:
| Results are for an Informtech 386SX/20 motherboard with Pheonix BIOS.
| 
| Landmark under DOS 3.3              ==> 24.3
| Landmark under DV (active window)   ==> 30.3
| Landmark under DV (background task) ==> 34.0
| 
| What I don't understand is the speed increase gained by being a
| background task.  Anybody?

  Many benchmarks use the timer tick to count "real time." Running in
some modes you may lose timer ticks, and therefore appear faster. I'm
not sure that this is what's happening with this b.m. but I have seen it
with others.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon