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posted by DOS386, 08.03.2011, 14:37

> Firstly I thought that problem is in my disk
> cache but it helped when I swithed from
> cwsdpmi r5 into cwsdpmi r7.
> (however best speed is with some nonswapping DPMI server
Right :-)

> can't be generaly recomended at all - some
> swapping is sometimes necessary)
Wrong. You (or FP) have a BUG in memory management. Memory hogging can always fail. One must be always prepared to handle this case. Outsourcing a memory leak into a huge swapfile is a very bad idea (Windaube does this too) :-(

> So - I vote for switching into cwsdpmi r7 in official distributions.
Or kick it ;-)

> No, I do not consider any CWSDPMI release stable.
I deprecate CWSDPMI (and actually DPMI at all). BTW, FPC has patched r5 from 2008 :-( - just kick it :hungry:

> I need a confmitation by somebody about this bug.
Done!!! ( as again nobody else bothers, as usual in this "community" :-( )

Got:

FPC251.ZIP 17'750'934
B07F'165F'1394'3036'1086'CF7D'6DD1'B626

"fp.exe" 1'872'132 2011-03-07 16:41

Result:

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Doesn't compile because LD.EXE is missing ... "switching to external linking" is nonsense, because LD.EXE is the external linker ... but where is the internal one ??? :confused:

Got further 20 MiB of bloat (containing LD.EXE) :

BUG.EXE (sort of "Hello World" program) brewn (240 KiB :confused: )

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The BUG is still in :confused: even in "opti" 1 (but not if I comment out the "Confuse").

More problems:

### "install2.png" is bloated :-(

INSTALL2.PNG 7'176

INSTALL3.PNG 5'545 Saving factor 1.3 and __LOSSLESS__ !!!

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### UPX is still included, and binaries are still UPX'ed, with UPX 1.20 :confused:

Solution: completely kick UPX from FPC :hungry:

### CHM reader doesn't work, neither with FPC internal, nor with external files:

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> > It's a losing battle. It's easier to drop support, deprecate, delete
> > than keep afloat.
YES. For DOS, it's better to have OSama/2 and Windaube (NE, ME, maybe also XP in future) deprecated and dead. I deprecate them all :hungry:

> The problem is not that it is a losing battle.
> The problem is more that it is not a battle at all.
Wrong. There is a battle. But the problem is, that the soldiers failed to find the front :confused:

> People are only complaining on the "losing" side,
> nobody is actually fighting (working) to keep it afloat.
??? WtF ??? How many people bothered to test this one ???

> RAR 4.x has already killed off Win9x
Good :-)

> And like I said, RAR dropped DOS too
No problem at all :-)

> (though still sells "old"
> version 3.93, for now), so I hope FPC doesn't do the same.
So please whine less about dead Windaube ME ;-)

> While the dos and win9x are both orphans maintainerwise,
> the situation is different in that dos at least is its own platform.
:-) Good attitude :-) Future of DOS may NOT depend from Macro$oft :-)

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