Firefox 3 runs faster on Linux+Wine than on Linux -- comparative to running on Windows
Kai Blin
kai.blin at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 03:30:15 CST 2009
On Friday 13 February 2009 18:54:23 Reece Dunn wrote:
> The real benefit in terms of speed for Wine would be not to use msvc,
> but to hand-optimise specific algorithms to take advantage of faster
> assembly instructions. This would likely be for the cryptographic
> algorithms (SHA1, MD5, etc),
I doubt that'll be worth it. the crypto routines shouldn't be called that
often, as opposed to say.. the DX math functions or the like. Of course as
you said, this would only matter if any of these turn out to be performance
hogs anyway.
Cheers,
Kai
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