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CPU performance comparison
2023-03-21T20:50:10+01:00 Tue
Recently, Bret Johnson and some others on the freedos-devel mailing list discussed how different CPUs perform. I want to add some results to this topic.
lDebug release 5 goofs, Control-C, and planned new TSR /J switches
2023-03-10
The lDebug release 5 is done. Alongside the blog post about the included changes, I also posted an announcement to the freedos-user mailing list. I copied this mail to the Announce section of the DOS Ain't Dead forum. I also linked to the mail in a tweet on the pushbx twitter.
Some things didn't go quite as expected.
lDebug release 5
2023-03-08
The lDebug release 5 is imminent. Update: The release is done, grab packages at https://pushbx.org/ecm/download/ldebug/ or the source at https://hg.pushbx.org/ecm/ldebug/rev/release5
lDebug tests uncovered a bug
Today, running the lDebug tests
turned up a recent bug,
now fixed.
With this change all tests pass
for build_name=debug,
build_name=debugx,
as well as build_name=debug test_booting=1.
The offending test was for checking part of the error message for writing to a read-only variable. I have largely neglected the test suite for a while now but perhaps I will expand it again soon.
