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mawk 1.3.4 20240622 for DOS (Announce)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 25.08.2024, 07:04

> I don't think it is better. I would almost always prefer DJGPP. I meant "if
> you must use HX, stick to OpenWatcom".
> In 2008, Japheth recompiled the FTE text editor with HX. There he implied a
> "true flat memory model" was better somehow. (For DJGPP, I think for
> stability they restricted access to low DOS memory.) He also (rightly) said
> DJGPP was a bit bloated, having never been optimized for size, so his way
> gave a slimmer binary.
Recently I played with FTE a bit (again). And it's true that binaries created with Open Watcom may be pretty slow in memory management, at least if the DOS32 variants ( DOS4/GW and compatibles ) are used. As for FTE, the difference isn't really noticable if small to medium sized files are loaded, but loading a 100 MB file ( with 1.5 million lines ) took about 90 sec for FTE created as OW DOS32 binary, but just 2 secs for a variant linked statically with HX's Win32 emulation.

Here's the link so you can do your own tests:

https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/FTE/releases

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