Jeremy White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Wow. This is the coolest new idea I've seen posted
>to wine-devel for a while.
Thanks *grin*.
>I suspect it has many hurdles and may never be practical with Wine,
>but I would really love to run winbench with Wine
>and have the numbers be faster than that of NT...
>
>(I'm not going to try to address the issues; I suspect
>that better minds than mine [e.g. Alexandre] will weigh
>in with a more complete analysis).
Oh, I don't know, I think in some ways it is very practical. My thought is
that anything it can't handle easily or quickly can be passed transparently to
a server process to be done in userspace (ie: registry maintainance and
access).
As for not currently being compilable against Linux 2.2, I think that can be
solved fairly easily.
>Do you mind if I ask what prompted you to undertake this
>process?
I like kernel programming, I'd like to see Wine go faster (I've tried stracing
it and seen the absolute mass of wineserver interactions flying past).
On a more practical note, I run the PVCS command line tools (version control)
under Wine at work, and they could be faster (they're implemented in threaded
Java - yuk), so I recon this could speed them up a bit.
I also occaisonally run the MSDEV command line compiler under Wine, and that
could be a lot faster too.
David Howells
