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Wine != WINdows Emulator

Posted May 20, 2004 20:46 UTC (Thu) by Luyseyal (guest, #15693) [Link]

From the website: http://www.winehq.org/site/myths
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Some people mean by that that Wine must emulate each processor instruction of the Windows application. This is plain wrong. As Wine's name says: "Wine Is Not an Emulator": Wine does not emulate the Intel x86 processor. It will thus not be as slow as Wabi which, since it is not running on a x86 Intel processor, also has to emulate the processor. Windows applications that do not make system calls will run just as fast as on Windows (no more no less).
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