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Wine vs Windows Benchmarks

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the coming-right-along dept.

PeterBrett writes "Tom Wickline recently posted to the Wine development list announcing that he'd done some benchmarks comparing Windows XP to Wine. They should be taken with the requisite dose of salt, but Wine has certainly come a long way."

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  1. The tests are meaningless! by creepynut · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need real benchmarks! Get some Windows worms/viruses/trojans running on WINE and then we'll have some real-world benchmarks!

    I say good day to you sir!

  2. Re:Maybe a grain of salt, but it's what I'd predic by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, because you spent a week in the first place trying to get the damn thing built, then you wasted the rest of your life arguing with your "friends" about the beneficial effects of -fomit-frame-pointer during your shifts at the Dairy Queen.

  3. Of course wine's better... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it makes you feel relaxed, slightly fogged and, in sufficient quantities, happily drunk. Windows, on the other hand, just makes you feel angry and frustrated. Give me wine!

    oh, wait, you were discussing software?

  4. Re:Maybe a grain of salt, but it's what I'd predic by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny
    I don't make fun of your hair do I?!
    Look, I know I need a haircut, but you didn't have to get personal about it.

    Sorry if I'm a bit sensitive about this, but Slashdot is the last place I expected to get a hard time about my hair.
    --
    [Fuck Beta]
    o0t!
  5. Re:no salt, but lies and damned stats by Haeleth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyway, I do not care how fast wine is. I care about API compliance. This is 2006, Microsoft has rewritten half of the OS with longhorn and I continue without being able to run many windows apps created years ago. Wine is far from being a true windows replacement for windows apps today....

    I quite agree. Last time I tried Wine it didn't run any of my favourite Windows applications. I'm not talking crappy shareware utilities that I can learn to live without - I'm talking showstoppers like OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Cygwin, all the really critical tools I use every day.

    Until Wine can adequately run programs like that, I'm sadly going to be stuck using Windows. :(

  6. Re:no salt, but lies and damned stats by Minwee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Absolutely. Until you can use Wine to run Cooperative Linux or boot Linux on vmware then the job is only half done.