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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. Re: Very Impressive! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Troll

    > I've quite impressed with the performance of WINE

    As I understand it the essence of Wine is reverse engineering the Windows DLLs. In principle getting comparative performance shouldn't be any particular challenge. Especially if Microsoft's reputation for producing bloated slopware is accurate.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Re:DirectLinux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know, you should probably have held off on your comment until some future date when you knew what the hell you were talking about.