Quote from ElectricSavant:
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Some people mean by that that Wine must emulate each processor instruction of the Windows application. This is plain wrong. As Wine's name says: "Wine Is Not an Emulator": Wine does not emulate the Intel x86 processor. It .... /B]
Its not a processor emulator, its an API emulator, which is the context in which I was using the term since the name implies its not a processor set emulator.
Test Wine with a few windows applications - it is clearly not as fast as running the applications on Windows. Duplicating native performance on an emulation API set takes herculean efforts.....
