Wine vs Windows Benchmarks

Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive

Wine vs Windows Benchmarks 286

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @01:34AM from the coming-right-along dept.

PeterBrett writes "Tom Wickline recently posted to the Wine development list announcing that he'd done some benchmarks comparing Windows XP to Wine. They should be taken with the requisite dose of salt, but Wine has certainly come a long way."

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Wine vs Windows Benchmarks

Search 286 Comments Log In/Create an Account

Comments Filter:

The tests are meaningless! (Score:5, Funny)

by creepynut ( 933825 ) * writes: <teddy(slashdot)&teddybrown,ca> on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @01:37AM (#14604819) Homepage

We need real benchmarks! Get some Windows worms/viruses/trojans running on WINE and then we'll have some real-world benchmarks!

I say good day to you sir!

Share
twitter facebook
Re:Maybe a grain of salt, but it's what I'd predic (Score:1, Funny)

by Jeffrey Baker ( 6191 ) writes: on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @01:50AM (#14604886)

No, because you spent a week in the first place trying to get the damn thing built, then you wasted the rest of your life arguing with your "friends" about the beneficial effects of -fomit-frame-pointer during your shifts at the Dairy Queen.

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Of course wine's better... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @02:12AM (#14604965)

...it makes you feel relaxed, slightly fogged and, in sufficient quantities, happily drunk. Windows, on the other hand, just makes you feel angry and frustrated. Give me wine!

oh, wait, you were discussing software?

Share
twitter facebook
Re:Maybe a grain of salt, but it's what I'd predic (Score:5, Funny)

by TubeSteak ( 669689 ) writes: on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @02:25AM (#14605009) Journal

I don't make fun of your hair do I?!
Look, I know I need a haircut, but you didn't have to get personal about it.

Sorry if I'm a bit sensitive about this, but Slashdot is the last place I expected to get a hard time about my hair.

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:no salt, but lies and damned stats (Score:5, Funny)

by Haeleth ( 414428 ) writes: on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @08:27AM (#14605968) Journal

Anyway, I do not care how fast wine is. I care about API compliance. This is 2006, Microsoft has rewritten half of the OS with longhorn and I continue without being able to run many windows apps created years ago. Wine is far from being a true windows replacement for windows apps today....

I quite agree. Last time I tried Wine it didn't run any of my favourite Windows applications. I'm not talking crappy shareware utilities that I can learn to live without - I'm talking showstoppers like OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Cygwin, all the really critical tools I use every day.

Until Wine can adequately run programs like that, I'm sadly going to be stuck using Windows. :(

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:no salt, but lies and damned stats (Score:3, Funny)

by Minwee ( 522556 ) writes: <dcr@neverwhen.org> on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @10:42AM (#14606599) Homepage

Absolutely. Until you can use Wine to run Cooperative Linux [colinux.org] or boot Linux on vmware [vmware.com] then the job is only half done.

Parent Share
twitter facebook

There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.

Wine vs Windows Benchmarks 286

Wine vs Windows Benchmarks More Login

Wine vs Windows Benchmarks

The tests are meaningless! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Maybe a grain of salt, but it's what I'd predic (Score:1, Funny)

Of course wine's better... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Maybe a grain of salt, but it's what I'd predic (Score:5, Funny)

Re:no salt, but lies and damned stats (Score:5, Funny)

Re:no salt, but lies and damned stats (Score:3, Funny)

Related Links Top of the: day, week, month.

Slashdot Top Deals

Slashdot