[Wine] Re: Run linux binaries on Windows

oiaohm
2010-02-08T23:55:26Z

triso Not exactly trivial.    Problem is lot of Linux text mode applications are
not 100 percent simple.

It trivial to move old mainframe programs to linux.  Its posix to posix .
Problem here windows does not contain proper posix.

Most Unix's and all Linux it cheep to start a new process compared to
windows.   It is one of the major reason why items like gcc run many times
faster on Linux than windows.   Starting a thread on windows takes more time
than starting a process on Linux.

Memory differences is a big killer.  Unix and Linux applications are use to
massive over allocation not causing bad things to happen.

daxue is talking about the reverse to wine.   Basically what he is asking is
shot due to technical reasons.

Science community need to simply accept windows is not up to the job.  colinux
can run gcc faster than running gcc natively on windows.