ReactOS May Begin Heavily Using Wine Code

[RealNC]

Haha got some benchmarked PGO linux builds to back that statement up?

Like the build distributed by Mozilla? Go ahead. You'll only confirm that it's not much better.

And here's your "10% difference" :P

http://tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox

[Remco]

Like the build distributed by Mozilla? Go ahead. You'll only confirm that it's not much better.

And here's your "10% difference" :P

http://tuxradar.com/content/browser-...-linux-firefox

Those tests are not from a current Firefox. In the comments it is stated that this discrepancy may have been fixed in Firefox 3.1 (now 3.5). I'd like to see new tests... maybe something for PTS?

[deanjo]

Those tests are not from a current Firefox. In the comments it is stated that this discrepancy may have been fixed in Firefox 3.1 (now 3.5). I'd like to see new tests... maybe something for PTS?

Current enough for you?

http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21264

Yes FF in win still pummels the linux version.

[XorEaxEax]

Linux Firefox in inherently slower than Windows Firefox. Optimization has nothing to do with it. It's because some code is different between platforms and the Linux specific code doesn't get as much attention as the Windows one.

Well optimization does have 'something' to do with it. The difference between using PGO and not using PGO can be quite big (typically 10-20% for me).

Back on topic, if win32 subsystem is developing slower than the rest of the ReactOS project then I'd say that using Wine to 'emulate' rather than replicate win32 is a smart move.

[kraftman]

Haha got some benchmarked PGO linux builds to back that statement up?

I asked on Firefox forum some time ago and someone said Firefox 3.6 should be much better on Linux then previous versions, so I believe RealNC is right.

[deanjo]

I asked on Firefox forum some time ago and someone said Firefox 3.6 should be much better on Linux then previous versions, so I believe RealNC is right.

Did you look at the linked thread? Better yes, but still far behind the windows build of minefield.

[RealNC]

I asked on Firefox forum some time ago and someone said Firefox 3.6 should be much better on Linux then previous versions, so I believe RealNC is right.

I am using FF 3.6 RC2 right now and indeed it feels much faster. I did not benchmark it against Windows, but I guess I'll do.

And about PGO: who on earth has time to do that :P

[Wyatt]

And about PGO: who on earth has time to do that :P

Gentoo users.

[krazy]

Hang on.. none of the linked benchmarks compared PGO builds of firefox on linux. The whole point is that getting PGO linux builds working is an outstanding bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418866

...which has already been resolved (and is routinely performed) for windows builds:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361343

hopefully this is fixed by 3.6.

[RealNC]

Gentoo users.

I am a Gentoo user and I really don't have the patience to compile everything twice with a test-run in-between for PGO