wine users - May 2008 - Console app startup time

Hi!

Is there any way to reduce the startup time for a console application?

When I start a purely console-based app with wine it takes (on my
platform) about 0.5-1 seconds to startup - even for a program that
doesn't actually do anything.

I am trying to get a Windows compiler to run under Linux using Wine, so
I care a lot about startup time, but I don't care at all about graphics
support (for example).

Thanks,
Luke Diamand

You might try keeping a small wine application (like notepad) running in
background so part of wine will already be launched.

It's just an idea you might try, I don't know what influence it has on
console programs.