psychoceramics: (fwd) Re: Why so slow?

[acb @ bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew C Bulhak)]

Here's something from "root", who was mentioned around these parts before.
This is the latest thread in which he alleges all manner of nefarious 
deeds and conspiracies against the developers of a free Windows emulator.
This has become somewhat of a theme with him.

 -- acb

From: root @ tailor.roman.org (root)
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
Subject: Re: Why so slow?

In article <4dibc7$m--@m--.npi.msu.su>, vvs@scil.npi.msu.su says...
>
>Why Wine is so slow? Espec. why he is fast in truecolor X mode and slow
>in 256? Why some progs are coming like from other galaxy?
>Why efforts are not on the way of building windowze-like kernel? It is
>small. 
>
The latest two or three Wine releases compiled to programs with built-
in slowdowns.  If you use `grep -n usleep *.c' in your subdirectories,
you'll find the places where slowdowns come from calls to `usleep(10000)'
and the like.

This is basically an example of a technical advance:  Earlier versions
of Wine were too fast and capable, so the more recent Wines concentrate
on hidden progress, while removing previously expected capabilities.  That
way, neophytes don't expect too much from Wine.  And, they don't get it.
But, don't worry.  sol.exe still works -- but more slowly, of course.


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