Picasa for Linux

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 06:00:21PM -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
> On 5/29/06, Micah J. Cowan <micah at cowan.name> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Regardless of whether or not it /should/ be, empirical experience says
> > it /is/.
> 
> what empirical experience?  i'm sick and tired of reading this kind of
> statements without actual evidence backing them... have you done any
> real benchmarks, or at least checked out the official ones??
> http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMark-0.9.5

Those benchmarks do quite a bit to strengthen my opinion. The vast
majority of "greens" are extremely minor improvements over Windows XP
(I note that the "wine beats XP" is not color-gradiated the way "XP beats
wine" is). And the specific areas of which I was thinking when I wrote
my remarks (opening new windows/popup-menus, drawing to windows) seem to
be summed up fairly nicely by the graphics-related tests in PC Mark.

> > Also, my experience with (free) wine has been quite poor unless you
> > install non-free Windows-native DLLs on top of it.
> 
> i'm sure your personal anecdotic experience is incredibly interesting,
> but it still doesn't compare to a real benchmark.

I said nothing personal in my remarks, why do you seem to be taking them
personally?

At any rate, this thread now seems to have got /completely/ off-topic
for this list. I don't really care what your opinion is, and I don't
understand why you care so much what mine is. My point was that Wine
/is/ more than "just an API", and there are good reasons why it might be
slower than "other APIs" such as GTK+ and QT.

Instead of (fairly disappointing) benchmarks filled almost entirely with
3D operations, followed by CPU and memory operations, something much
better-related to my point would have been benchmarks comparing
opening-and-closing windows and menu-popups, drawing to windows, and
general application-usage of several major applications.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/