Performance testing (pass 1)

[Lamar Owen]

On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:49 pm, stephan schutter wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> >On Saturday 27 September 2003 08:58 am, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >>Dunno, kudos to Wine folks I guess.. if an "emulated" application starts
> >> up and runs faster than a "native" one... what can I say :-/

> >Wine Is Not an Emulator.  It is an API translator, and acts as a
> > relatively (given what it does) thin one at that.  Word on Linux should
> > be nearly as fast as Word on Windows; and I have in fact verified that.

> I thought it was an implemantation of Win32 DLL's in Linux?

Given that the Win32 API is pretty much defined by DLL's, then, yes, that is 
correct.  But it also implements the KERNEL, GDI, and USER stuff not found in 
DLL's, but found deeper in the system.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu