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From: jms@cs.vu.nl (Jan-Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Comic: MSDOS patches and performance
Message-ID: <7245@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 4 Aug 90 19:13:31 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.091912.10529@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>
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Reply-To: jms@cs.vu.nl (Jan-Mark Wams)
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In article <1990Aug1.091912.10529@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au>,
	aas@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Alex Sergejew) writes:

>      I have ported comic to MSDOS with ease and append context diffs and
> a (m|t)asm-compatible version of memrchr.  Apart from syntactical changes
> memrchr has two changes worth considering for the minix 8088 version:
> the cld to restore direction flags is important, and duplicating the exit
> code thus avoiding an extra jump saves over 1% in compression time (!)

	Nice, but why didn't you email me first. The 1.0 version outdates
	your patches. But I would like 1.0 for MSC. I don't have MSC. ;-(

	SO: DON'T TRY THE PATCHES ON COMIC 1.0. AND PATCHING COMIC 1.0B
	WILL NOT GIVE YOU 1.0.


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