Is Wine Really Faster than Windows?

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Is Wine Really Faster than Windows?

Opinion: It's debatable whether the open-source program that allows Windows programs to run on Linux is faster than native Windows, but it has its place. (Linux-Watch)
Would you believe that Wine, the open-source program that enables you to run some Windows programs on Linux, is faster than native Windows XP on the same hardware?

I have trouble buying that one too, but according to the Wine crew's latest benchmark runs, it's true.

These were primarily graphic tests. Both systems, Windows XP SP 2 and Gentoo with Wine 0.9.5, were asked to show their stuff on a 3.8GHz Intel 570 Pentium box with an 800MHz FSB (front side bus), a gigabyte of 533MHz DDR2 (double-data-rate 2) RAM, and a 60GB IDE ATA100 hard drive.

If you just look at the top-line results, it looks like Wine isn't just edging out XP, it's killing it! It won the majority, 67, of the total tests.

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[theparrot]

For some applications it could be. I know it at least used to be the case that NetBSD ran Linux applications under linux emulation faster the linux did.

 

[abdulmueid]

Well, I believe it since Wine has an effort in it from around the world and not just a handful of guys who are paid to work and just get the job done.