On Mon, 2019-03-18 at 19:30 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:09:18 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-03-17 at 11:30 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:38:48 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 13:14 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:35:18 +0100 Michał Górny wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 09:31 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:23:00 +0100 > > > > > > > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > # Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> (15 Mar 2019) > > > > > > > > # Last reverse dependency of dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5* (#656378). > > > > > > > > Current > > > > > > > > # version is outdated, maintainer is MIA and the new versions > > > > > > > > are > > > > > > > > # in distro-unfriendly AppImage format (#661740). > > > > > > > > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #677486. > > > > > > > > dev-util/staruml-bin > > > > > > > > =dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't care about staruml-bin but libgcrypt is one of those > > > > > > > legacy > > > > > > > libraries that would be helpful to keep around for older > > > > > > > proprietary > > > > > > > software that is not in the tree. In particular, it is used by > > > > > > > Half-Life 2 and Portal, not exactly obscure games. It is included > > > > > > > in > > > > > > > the Steam runtime but we highly recommend against using that > > > > > > > because it > > > > > > > causes many issues. > > > > > > > > > > > > I don't understand why would you want to run some proprietary native > > > > > > executables requiring obsolete libraries on your system when HL2 > > > > > > works > > > > > > perfectly via wine, and gets a nice performance boost via Gallium > > > > > > Nine. > > > > > > > > > > Because native code works faster than API emulation via wine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you have any data to support that? Or is it 'obvious'? > > > > > > Yes, I have. Because Half-Life 2 on native steam works on my old > > > box with GF 7300 and Athlon-XP and does not work at all on the > > > same box via wine-d3d9. > > > > > > > That's not really a data point. Unless you can actually test it (or > > otherwise prove that it would be slower if it worked), you're merely > > complaining that you can't use the faster solution. > > > > I'm sorry that you've bought non-OSS-friendly video card and now you're > > stuck with the choice between awful proprietary drivers and far-from- > > complete OSS drivers. However, that doesn't prove that the native > > version would be faster at all. > > If wine-based version does not work, its performance is zero. That's > why the native version is faster. >
Wrong. If it doesn't work, it consumes very little CPU/GPU cycles. Therefore, it is much more efficient than the working version. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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