Is this slowness normal?

[Uwe Bonnes]

D. R. Evans <N7DR at arrl.net> wrote:
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: I have installed wine 20010629 from codeweavers (this seems to be the 
: latest version available from there).

: Running on a 700MHz Linux box, with gnome as the desktop manager and icewm 
: as the window manager.

: If I run the (in)famous SOL.EXE, it takes 53 seconds before the program 
: appears on the desktop. All the other programs I've tried seem to take at 
: least this long (and sometimes several minutes) before they appear.

: Is this normal, or might there be somewthing screwy with my configuration 

Wine startup is slow, especially for the first time when all fonts are
scanned. Wine starts up a whole win32/16 subsystem, so compare it more to
booting windows then to start a program under windows. However you can start
the wineserver in some perststant mode and then startup of programm should
be faster.

Bye

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