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  • arc@lemm.eeEnglish
    133·
    1 year ago

    Wine is an emulator. It might not have started as such when it was winelib but it is now, especially when running binaries. If in doubt read their own FAQ where they take pains to describe it depends what you’re doing and what is meant by emulation.

    • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Go read the code. It’s a reimplementation of core Windows DLLs. Quite a clean one. There is also a daemon that fakes a NT kernel. It’s worth a read.

      • arc@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I know what it is thanks. I even contributed code a long time back to it.

        • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Then why are you saying it’s going to pay any kind of emulation cost? It’s not really much different to what MS do. NT has it’s own sys calls that MS call in their Win32 implementation. WINE calls POSIX calls in their’s.

          Well done contributing anyway. I haven’t, but I crawled all over the source when I developed on Windows as it was better than MSDN for the semi-documented stuff (that was only documented at all because EU forced them).

          • arc@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I didn’t and I don’t know where you got the idea I did.

            • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Cool, well happy it was just a miss understanding, but I’m clearly not the only one who thought you were saying that. Might be worth clarifying in you earlier posts.