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- From: rplourde@andesign.mv.com (Richard Plourde)
- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
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- Organization: Electronics Consultant
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 19:57:47 GMT
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- On Fri, 16 Feb 96 14:20:04 GMT, mrwally@liberty.com (Michael J. Walsh)
- wrote:
-
- >I don't know if this is relevant or not. But the 32bit apps. I use in Windows
- >3.1 certainly take longer to load and close than the 16bit versions and they
- >don't seem to perform any better. Can anyone tell me what benifit I'm supposed
- >to see from 32bit?
-
- I don't think that you should expect improved performance (except
- perhaps with some heavy-duty batch number-crunching applications) when
- using Win32s under Win3.1x and 32-bit apps than you would get with
- native 16-bit Win3.1x apps. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes
- 'thunking' that goes on to make the 32-bit apps work.
-
- Under Win95, the situation should be different, and I notice that the
- 32-bit apps have not yet crashed my system (although individual 32-bit
- apps themselves *have* crashed). That doesn't mean that they can't,
- but the 32-bit apps seem better insulated than the 16-bit apps.
-
- As for speed under Win95 -- I'm not sure that speed improvements have
- happened yet. It's hard to say, though, because of "creeping
- featuritus." The 32-bit apps are generally *not* the 'same' as the
- 16-bit apps, so comparisons are difficult. (Compilers may also not
- yet be as optimized as possible.)
-
-
- -R
- - Richard Plourde --- rplourde@andesign.mv.com -
-