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FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 17.10.2008, 01:32

> Thanks! Since FTE is my favorite DOS editor, I did a few tests. It works
> fine, and in a WinXP DOS-Box there's nothing to complain about. However,
> in plain DOS - no cache loaded! - there's a small problem: it's very slow
> if large files are viewed/edited. To load a 85 MB text file it needs 1-2
> minutes, and pressing Alt-X to exit (file unmodified!) needs about
> 3-4 minutes until the DOS prompt appears.
>
> [The test machine has 1 GB memory]

Wait a minute, you didn't forget and accidentally use CWSDPMI r5, did you? It's much slower, esp. on machines w/ > 512 MB of RAM since it then always needs to swap out to disk because of page tables in low memory. r6 (which isn't quite stable) is at least a lot faster due to 4 MB pages. However, all of this is moot if you're using HDPMI32. But unless you manually loaded it first or run it as TSR (like DOS386 likes to do), then CWSDPMI is used by default (as always for DJGPP v2 unless you change it via STUBEDIT).

Complete thread:

• FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - rr, 16.10.2008, 16:32 (Announce)
  • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - Japheth, 16.10.2008, 18:38
    • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - Rugxulo, 16.10.2008, 23:52
    • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - Rugxulo, 17.10.2008, 01:32
      • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - Japheth, 17.10.2008, 07:58
        • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - DOS386, 18.10.2008, 00:57
    • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - rr, 17.10.2008, 10:06
      • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - DOS386, 18.10.2008, 01:00
        • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - marcov, 18.10.2008, 12:50
          • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) FPIDE @marcov - DOS386, 20.10.2008, 08:45
        • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - Rugxulo, 18.10.2008, 21:36
          • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - marcov, 26.10.2008, 11:51
            • GNU Emacs 22.3 for DOS/DJGPP - Rugxulo, 12.11.2008, 00:36
              • GNU Emacs 22.3 for DOS/DJGPP - Rugxulo, 25.11.2008, 06:42
      • Tools/Shell command also has some problems in DOS - Japheth, 18.10.2008, 14:28
        • Tools/Shell command also has some problems in DOS - Rugxulo, 18.10.2008, 21:29
          • highlights of FTE - DOS386, 19.10.2008, 01:27
            • highlights of FTE - rr, 20.10.2008, 15:02
          • Tools/Shell command also has some problems in DOS - Japheth, 19.10.2008, 10:03
            • Tools/Shell command also has some problems in DOS - DOS386, 20.10.2008, 09:26
              • Tools/Shell command also has some problems in DOS - Steve, 23.10.2008, 07:33
                • tc - DOS386, 25.10.2008, 01:22
                  • tc - Steve, 25.10.2008, 17:10
            • The most archaic abandonware ever ! only 1808 years old :-D - DOS386, 29.10.2008, 10:02
              • The most archaic abandonware ever ! only 1808 years old :-D - rr, 29.10.2008, 10:24
              • The most archaic abandonware ever ! only 1808 years old :-D - Japheth, 29.10.2008, 15:18
                • The most archaic abandonware ever ! only 1808 years old :-D - Rugxulo, 29.10.2008, 19:38
              • The most archaic abandonware ever ! only 1808 years old :-D - rr, 10.11.2008, 22:16
                • The most archaic abandonware ever ! only 1808 years old :-D - DOS386, 11.11.2008, 14:54
                  • The most archaic abandonware ever ! only 1808 years old :-D - rr, 11.11.2008, 20:28
                    • README.1ST for DOS release - ecm, 12.11.2008, 18:01
                    • vegi - DOS386, 29.12.2008, 01:55
                      • GNU Emacs 23.0 - Rugxulo, 29.12.2008, 22:58
                      • vegi - Steve, 02.01.2009, 08:20
  • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - Deniska, 17.10.2008, 02:51
    • FTE version 0.50.01-cvs available (port) - rr, 17.10.2008, 10:04