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- From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
- Newsgroups: alt.winsock,alt.winsock.trumpet,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: 16 bit vs 32 bit winsock
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:13:38 -600
- Organization: Texas Imperial Software
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- In article <31627BA5.BB4@cerberus-sys.com>
- Albert P. Belle Isle <belleisl@cerberus-sys.com> wrote:
- > At the risk of getting caught in a WinSock religious flame war, I think the
- other
- > readers in the group should be reminded that both the Win95 and Trumpet TCP/IP stacks,
- > indeed *all* dial-up WinSocks, are *one* bit software on the end that determines how
- > fast you can surf the 'net: your com port.
-
- However, the other end is important, too. 16-bit applications (e.g. Trumpet
- Winsock), using 16-bit calls to the Windows layer, take up a good portion of
- the system's time that could perhaps better be served by a 32-bit application,
- which may be pre-emptively multi-tasked. Thus, users of Win95 will often find
- that performance improves overall when using the Win95 winsock stack, and 32-
- bit applications, than using the Trumpet winsock stack (even with 32-bit
- applications).
-
- Many users do other things when they're connected to the internet. What many
- people fail to realise in the whole 32-bit/16-bit debate
- is not that the 16-bit apps are slower in themselves, but that they tend to
- produce a reduction in performance of all the other programs going on around
- them. In other words, if you only run 16-bit applications, and you don't care
- about other programs running on your machine, you may be perfectly happy, but
- if you run other programs, those other programs may slow down. If you hop
- into Word while an FTP transfer is going on in the background, you don't want
- that transfer deciding unilaterally how fast Word responds to you.
-
- Another item to note here is that neither the Win95 stack, nor Trumpet, are
- strictly dial-up winsock stacks - they can be used over local network systems.
-
- Alun.
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