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Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
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It's less of a translation layer and more of a reimplementation. But yes, it does demonstrate how shitty Microsoft is that other people can implement its APIs better than it can.
a reimplementation built from reverse engineering and documentation that lies, meanwhile microsoft are the ones who should know how it all works, but apparently not.
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guidelines not even standard reverse engineering either. It's incredibly impressive
The original code was probably sent through AI optimisation and the comments were lost
The news here is that NTSYNC is more efficient than the Linux emulations that came before it, not that it's faster than the original Windows implementation.
with less LOC btw