Re: First shot at a Summary (Was Re: SOLARIS WABI)

From: Ian Dickinson (cudep@csv.warwick.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 20 1993 - 07:04:26 CDT

In article <1t9vr2$mdd@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>a) At _runtime_, wabi converts the MSW binary into a Solaris
> binary and executes it. At runtime there is no SoftPC-type
> big brother watching.

Is it going to be possible to do the coversions in advance instead of
runtime? This would save a lot of initial startup time, especially on
SPARC machines where the x86 code needs an extensive massage.

Cheers, 

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