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Jeff Lightfoot (jeffml@netcom.com) wrote:

: Using the 32 bit code on a 16 bit operating system does not make anything
: faster.  In fact it may even slow things down a bit.  Let me explain why. (I
: hope I get this right, or its flame time. :-)

Okay, where did I put that lighter...

: First of all the Win32s is just a 'thunker'.  It takes the code and makes it
: usable by the 16bit operating system.  Thunking is term given by Microsoft
: that explains how at 32bit program is run on 16bit Windows and how a 16bit
: program will be run on Windows95.  Thunking obviously adds some time (very
: little?) to the processing of a program.

"Thunking" - as far as I know - has nothing to do with 32 vs 16 bit
processing. I believe that it is how MS-Windows manages to have a single
copy of the code for multiple instances of the application: "thunks" are
stubs that are called as each sub-routine is called to 'fix-up' the data
segment registers to point ot the correct data for that particular
instance.

And yes it does add some time to program execution, but if you have a 16
bit OS trying to do 32 bit instructions it will be even longer.

: Now, feel free to shoot holes in my explaination, I think I did a pretty
: good job explaining. (yeh, right)

bang!

: Jeff Lightfoot    jeffml@netcom.com    light1@mactcf.af.mil

BTW: I have tried Netscape for awhiile. While there are some nice features
that Mosaic doesn't have, I'm still not ready to pass judgement on it.

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ken bass
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