Hi.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:25:26 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote
We need to distinguish between *real* code which natively executes on CPU and any other binary content which not executes natively. Win32 executables, ROMs, JARs are IMHO definitely falls into this category (content). As pictures, music and text-files they do not runs on CPU directly.
Win32 binaries (when run on x86, unless you found an old Alpha binary somewhere) _do_ run natively on the host CPU. Wine does not emulate the CPU, it 'just' provides the execution environment (libraries, kernel calls) a Windows binary expects. Program code that is not spent in libraries or in the kernel is executed natively on the CPU.