Wine benchmarks

[Tom Wickline]

On 11/28/05, James Hawkins <truiken at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Quake 3
> >
> > Gentoo native the FPS is 400.7 demo 1
> > Wine 0.9.1 FPS 339.6 demo 1
> >
>
> By native do you mean the linux client for Quake 3?

Yes.

 If so then that's
> not a very accurate benchmark comparison.  The linux client is written
> specifically for linux and the calls are directly into the system,
> whereas with wine the calls go through the wine layer and then to the
> system.  The best comparison would be the fps from running quake 3 on
> windows and the fps from the same executable run in wine.

So true,  when I first posted the benchmarks a couple people ask me
what the difference between the native linux port, wine & xp were. So
I thought I would add this info this time around as well.

http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2005-July/038874.html

Cheers,

Tom
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> James Hawkins
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