Does (or can) Wine use SMP?

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Sat Mar 17 05:09:53 CST 2001


Spectre wrote:
>I mainly run dual processor machines and was wondering if multi
>processors helped or was ignored.

WINE doesn't really care about SMP. It creates processes and threads and
let the Linux scheduler take care of assigning them to CPUs.

(So it helps even though WINE does not know about it ;)

The finer Win32 concepts of process and thread affinity are not yet implemented
in WINE.

Ciao, Marcus



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