shimq1 Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Would it be faster to use applications that were made for Mac OS X PowerPC or would it be faster to use Wine and applications that were made for Windows. I'm trying to use Adium and iTunes, and its REALLY slow compared to the other programs like Safari and iChat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeph Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I would have thought that if u could get the app that you wanted working in Darwine, then it would be much faster than running the PPC binary running under Rosetta as Rosetta is emulating a completely different CPU instruction set, whereas Wine provides a "Windows Layer" to Mac OS. No CPU emulation takes place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Ugh, I hate it when people ttalk about what they don't know about... WINE IS NOT AN EMULATOR, although wine does act alot like an emulator and has the same concept...it is not! Pretty much Wine is a rebuild of the windows system for linux. Pretty much it's windows dlls re-written for linux. But it is very hard to set up WINE, even for some with moderate unix experience. Once you get it installed, you need to add windows system files...pretty much microsft included all these in XP, so they took them off the web. So, it may take a while just to get wine ready to do anything. Pretty much wine just simulates a basic windows environment...you have to add some standard windows fonts that linux doesn't use, along with DirectX, and MANY RUNTIMES! If you think you can do it, Wine actually may be the way to go, but if you are doing this in darwin...expect it to be quite difficult! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimq1 Posted October 20, 2005 Author Share Posted October 20, 2005 So which way is faster? Wine? Darwin? Cause right now I THINK I'm using Rosetta and a program like iTunes is REALLY slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 How are you running rosetta? I don't know much about rosetta (at all, execpt it's part of the core of OS X), but wine would be very difficult to set up. Unless you want to spend enless hours w/ setting up wine, go with the other option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLS Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Not trying darwine would be faster. Even if for some magical reason it were actually fast, you would lose a lot of time getting it to work, do you really think you would gain enough performance to repay the time getting darwine to work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shimq1 Posted October 20, 2005 Author Share Posted October 20, 2005 Guess not. But is there anymore patches that'll make SSE3 applications go faster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_campbell Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 So now that Darwine/X86 is at beta, how does performance look? Has anyone who has it working tried running photoshop7 for PPC under rosetta against photoshop7 for windows under darwine? I realize that wine isn't an emulator, but it doesn't have the same speed as a native windows install either. --Jesse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkten Posted February 12, 2006 Share Posted February 12, 2006 the problem with WINE on OSX isn't performance...it just works worse than it does on other x86 platforms for reasons that quite frankly is puzzling to me. The current beta of WINE (not darwine) from cvs builds with two *very* small patches, but has a much much lower compatibility rate. Its a head-scratcher, to say the least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Would it be faster to use applications that were made for Mac OS X PowerPC or would it be faster to use Wine and applications that were made for Windows. I'm trying to use Adium and iTunes, and its REALLY slow compared to the other programs like Safari and iChat. 1. Adium is a universal build 2. iTunes is a universal build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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