wine users - Mar 2007 - i686 vs i386 Wine Binaries

Hi,

I'm a linux newbie here..  just downloaded the Wine pacakge for Ubuntu and 
I'm surprised at the number of Windows apps that are functional under Wine. 
However, the performace is a bit lacking, especially in games though still 
acceptable.  (I'm getting maybe 75% the framerate I'm used to.)

I've noticed that the version of Wine I'm using for Ubuntu is
specifically
compiled for i386 systems;  I'm running an i686 kernel (on a 2.8Ghz Celeron)
now and I'm wondering if I'll get better performance if I download the 
source and compile an i686 version of Wine myself?  Thanks.

Ragnarkar <none@none.com> wrote:
> I'm a linux newbie here..  just downloaded the Wine pacakge for Ubuntu
and
> I'm surprised at the number of Windows apps that are functional under
Wine.
> However, the performace is a bit lacking, especially in games though still 
> acceptable.  (I'm getting maybe 75% the framerate I'm used to.)
> 
> I've noticed that the version of Wine I'm using for Ubuntu is
specifically
> compiled for i386 systems;  I'm running an i686 kernel (on a 2.8Ghz
Celeron)
> now and I'm wondering if I'll get better performance if I download
the
> source and compile an i686 version of Wine myself?  Thanks. 
Most of the time, recompiling for your specific system will get you an
increase in performance. However, I do not know how much the increase
will be with wine. If you feel like it, go ahead and try.

Daniel