Buiz talk

[Mike Hearn]

Considering that afaik Office runs as one process, I can't understand
how context-switching performance would make any difference.

If anything, it should run slower as Wine isn't as optimized as Windows
is, and Windows apps will be optimized for fast threading, as Windows
apps make far greater use of threading than multiple processes but Linux
threading support is yet another area that it's in flux.

On the other hand, getting rid of Clippy is a feature that makes up for
any slight problems Wine may (or may not) have with Office :)

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:32, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> on 
> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1138118
> Suse's Dan Homolka is cited with:
> > Dan Homolka, technical sales manager at SuSE, claimed that the vendor's
> > Linux environment actually runs Microsoft Office faster than Windows "mainly
> > because Linux is much better at context-switching".
> 
> Suse Window support is based on Codeweavers Cross Office. 
> 
> Does this stand a real world test?
> 
> Bye
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Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com>
QinetiQ - Malvern Technology Center