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DJGPP love Window$ ? (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 01.10.2013, 08:25

> I agree that this is not optimal since it is taking far too long but I
> found that doslfn slows everything down a lot and you compiled p7zip with
> SFN as you write. So I think doslfn is the main reason for this long
> compile time. But I cannot compile Dillo with SFN.

I could not compile p7zip without LFNs except by a fair bit of patching. Of course it's not impossible, but most people don't have the patience or interest, I suppose, to support such a thing, esp. not for marginal speed gains.

But I did rediscover my old benchmark timings, for your reading pleasure (from freedos-user circa Sep. 2012, "HD I/O speed"):

http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13098.html

> I will try RDISK as you recommended too.
>
> >and ./configure (for whatever reason) doesn't natively work in Bash atop
> >pure DOS, even with LFNs enabled
>
> I cannot say I have no trouble with ./configure since the config file
> usually assumes XLib etc but I have used the configure program that comes
> with djgpp successfully on several projects.

It only barely works in NTVDM or DOSEMU, so I don't trust it. Well, and it's too POSIX oriented, not something I really want to promote exclusively. (Windows devs still have to patch bad assumptions due to that. Though they probably make their own errors as well.) Oh, did I mention it's horribly bloated too?

Complete thread:

• DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 14.09.2013, 14:07
  • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 14.09.2013, 18:08
    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 14.09.2013, 18:48
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Laaca, 15.09.2013, 07:38
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 09:10
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Laaca, 15.09.2013, 12:13
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - bocke, 16.09.2013, 02:54
    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 14.09.2013, 20:36
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - iw2evk, 15.09.2013, 09:13
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 10:49
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 15.09.2013, 20:32
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - bocke, 16.09.2013, 02:53
      • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 15.09.2013, 10:14
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 15.09.2013, 20:08
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - RayeR, 16.09.2013, 13:45
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - georgpotthast, 16.09.2013, 20:56
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 01.10.2013, 08:25
        • DJGPP love Window$ ? - marcov, 16.09.2013, 19:58
          • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 02.10.2013, 22:52
            • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 05.10.2013, 22:50
              • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 20.10.2013, 00:55
                • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 20.10.2013, 01:59
                  • DJGPP love Window$ ? - marcov, 20.10.2013, 21:28
                    • DJGPP love Window$ ? - Rugxulo, 22.10.2013, 01:17