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[–] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] bibbasa@piefed.social 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] qqq@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guidelines not even standard reverse engineering either. It's incredibly impressive

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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

The original code was probably sent through AI optimisation and the comments were lost

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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 3 points 6 months ago

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.

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