One common example of a use case for wine is games, so maybe we can measure it as the number of games wine has it in its database over the years.

> it’s certainly true for recent versions of Windows.

Sounds very much likely given the fact that D3D 11 is now supported. D3D was an enabler or catalyst if you could call it like that, for the games and GPU industry. Who knows what’s in store with UWP

There were other enablers as well like infiniband networks. I wonder what the performance currently is in the niche market of HPCs with infnibands enabling RDMA networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDMA_over_Converged_Ethernet