Speed/latency issues for development in a Wine environment
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 20:00:33 CDT 2010
On 18 June 2010 20:12, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> That would be a most interesting comparison. In computer terms 150 ms is an
> absolutely enormous time that allows something like 150 million (!)
> operations to occur on modern PC's. So I would be surprised if Microsoft
> Windows required that long to start up applications.
Creating processes on Windows is *expensive*. Do a
"./configure;make;make install" natively in Cygwin for any piece of
open source software and you'll be amazed how slow ./configure is to
run. This is because ./configure works by making a source code file,
compiling it in gcc and then running the resultant binary; this is
easy on a Unix, very laborious on Windows.
So I don't know, but I would be unsurprised if it's Wine doing all the
stuff it has to do to pretend to be Windows.
Cygwin runs under Wine. How does ./configure for a given program
running on Cygwin on Wine compare to ./configure for the same program
running on Cygwin on Windows on the same hardware?
- d.
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