Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 31 October 2002 01.33, Jeff lists wrote:
even some of us goofy Windows users recognize the efficiency of native apps.
This is a common misconception. Applications running under wine are running native. There is no runtime translation of instructions in wine. Wine Is Not an Emulator :) wine is a reimplementation of the windows libraries. There is no technical reason why applications linking to the wine libs couldn't run as fast as under windows proper, or even faster. There is anecdotal evidence that certain games running under wine run faster than under windows.
Anders
If you'ld like some benchmarks of games running in Wine in Linux compared to games running in Windblows I'd be more than happy to set up a few (e.g. 1/2 a dozen or more) and post the findings. Mostly if the game will run in Wine (which most will if you fine tune/tweak those that are difficult) they tend to run faster and since the graphics in linux do better OpenGL calls (at least in my opinion), they then to be a bit more resolute and defined, not to mention smoother. Also, if you run said games/apps in a simple, or sleeker GUI such as black box, windowmaker, or similar the performance only gets better. WINE stands for "W"ine "I"s "N"ot an "E"mulator. The work of Transgaming focuses on DirectX calls while the lastest CVS for OpenGL in Wine is the slickest of the two. I just patch the OpenGL Wine CVS into an existing Wine install and BAM..., nice and crisp OpenGL for Windows based games. Ya, I'd prefer vendor support and writes for Linux base games, and I have bought or dl'ed games/patch made for Linux. I find no problems with this at all. But, since that schister at Loki games screwed his employees, vendors, games makers, client/gamers, and the Linux gaming community in the process, Linux gaming has been at a virtual stand still. Just get the M$ junkies into the Linux box, then work on fully converting them to "native" Linux apps. I would rather see an Office Suite made for and by Linux, but in the interim I think getting more than just your foot in the door is what this is all about. Cheers, Curtis.