Having rocks in your head would help. Knowing a bit or two about computers would also help, but in a different and hopefully more satisfying manner.
For instance: If RAM were the bottleneck for a given app, then running it in an emulated environment where the environment itself doesn't expend all resources may be a good idea. Windows typically uses more RAM than Linux, and so it is quite possible that a Windows-app which meets memory constraints in Windows may perform better in Linux on the same machine. An emulation layer has to be a real piece of crap to be worse than using swap. Oh, and by the way: WINE, Wine Is Not an Emulator. So there ;) Cheers, Einar Adam Sando wrote: > Agreed, and as Nick pointed out, the ad is a marketing pitch by the company > to lure you in. > > To try put it in perspective - take the new SNES emulator developed for Xbox > 360. The first version ran crap because the coder has to EMULATE what the > original OS and hardware is doing. In any type of hosted OS/Application model > (MS VS and VMWare are hosted models) where the emulation layer sits on top of > the OS, you would have to have rocks in your head to think an OS running > within another OS yields better performance. Even with Hypervisor technology, > you still incur a performance hit. > > Maybe its the secret though... maybe if I install linux, then Emulate an XP > install, all my games will run better than a straight XP install. Maybe if I > create a virtual linux machine under XP an then put a further emulated XP > install under that, I will get even more super performance :-| > > Regards, > Adam. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
