Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:36:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: How to write to far pointer directly
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Ryan McGee wrote:

> Is that faster or slower than using _farpokeb?

There's a lot of controversy going on about this issue.  From the
limited experimenting that I did, I have never seen any significant
slow-down when using farptr function like `_farpokeb' (assuming that
tight loops use `_farnspokeb' after setting the selector with
`_farsetsel').  I guess your mileage may vary if you have abnormally
slow or abnormally fast SVGA; I tested on the garden variety system
with SVGA sitting on a local bus.