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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: MS FlgtSim and Win3
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Date: 13 Nov 90 00:53:15 GMT
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In article <3792@mindlink.UUCP> a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn) writes:
>    I have also found that standard mode offers noticibly faster scrolling and
>other operations in Winword than does the 386 enhanced mode.  The 386 enhanced
>mode has some definite advantages, but it seem that these come at the price of
>a noticible speed difference for some (although certainly not all)
>applications.

This is a function of the 386 chip, not Windows. The 386, in protected
mode, takes *significantly* longer than real mode to load segment
references (because they have to go through a page table and they
might page fault). That is why it is so important to try to use near
pointers wherever possible, which makes programmer's lives
significantly more confusing than using 32 bit pointers everywhere.

Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                     Silence = Death