From: parprods@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Dorwin Shields) Subject: Re: Linux beoming a real choice? (WABI?) Date: 1 Jul 1993 13:07:25 GMT
sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <1993Jun30.214242.15740@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>>>>What's WABI?
>>>
>>MS-Windows without x86 emulation? How ya gonna do that?
>Partly correct. Your typical Windows application spends a large amount of
>time executing code in the Windows kernel. This is replaced with something
>that does the same thing but in the native OS and Window environment (e.g.
>converting Windows windows calls into X window calls). These end up being
>very fast because they are running at full speed.
>The rest of the application is x86 code that *must* be emulated.
Would it be possible to write a huge binary-compiler which takes x86
code and tears it down so that we can re-map the appropriate calls and
forget the emulation?
Just a thought.