Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! Ray, > Sure, I never get steamed up over this kind of thing, each one is > entitled to his own view. However, since I've rewritten the whole > of core.exe, I think I know what I'm talking about. I'd say the fact that > my core gives over 100K more free memory and is ca. 40% faster is proof > enough that the old core is rather less than optimized. there is a reason why optimization is normally the last step in developing a program, since it can get in the way. I already told you that some of the optimizations you did in your core probably make it incompatible with my DPMI support, and cutting out the Linux code (and IIRC also code for older graphics cards) does not help with maintaining compatibility, either. >> Perhaps that is the wrong approach, perhaps it should rather the code >> that is *not* shared by all ports be kept in a separate library. > I know what you mean, but it's no argument. Once the components of the > .lib are disassembled and sorted out, the parts can be grouped and > stored a few different ways. Sure, if you like changing your core back and forward all the time. Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --