Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by tinus_hn on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @07:35AM (#17817928)

I don’t know how it is today but Microsofts compiler used to produce much better code than the free compilers used on Linux and Mac OSX

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by executesorder66 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @08:42AM (#17818264)

Just because the compiler is good, doesn't mean the OS's CPU scheduler is any good. Nor does it mean the graphics drivers for that OS are any good. Same for the filesystem. etc.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by tinus_hn on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:00PM (#17828338)

I’m not sure how that has anything to do with the difference in performance between running the Windows version on OSX and running the OSX version on OSX.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by hsivonen on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:33AM (#17818943)

clang is doing pretty nicely compared to MSVC these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17504197

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows G... by tinus_hn on Thursday August 23, 2018 @12:07PM (#17828401)

That’s great but Dwarf Fortress is a 2006 game, It was probably compiled using gcc.

[ Parent | on HN ]