From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2007-10-12, Ruud  wrote:   
   > I programmed my own 6502 assembler. It runs fine but I encountered a   
   > weird phenomene: one moment it takes 4 seconds to run, the other   
   > moment about 20. With another ASM file I got figures like 4 and 35.   
   > The program runs in a DOS box under Windows XP SP2. P4 3GHz, 1 GB of   
   > RAM.   
   >   
   > I am just curious to know what can be the reason, is it XP or is a   
   > possible programming error (the way I use the memory) to blame? AFAIK   
   > I didn't encounter this phenomene under NT4.   
      
   I bet programming. Windows can behave oddly too, but that is mostly on the   
   several 100ms timescale, not several seconds (specially on a still   
   decent 3GHz machine).   
      
   Do you implement some form of locking or sharing?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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