Hi, I have a question,
I don't know a *censored* of a lot about computers. Anyway, I have a "command-shell" program that is used to do molecular dynamics simulations. There are no graphics.... nothing... I just run the program through the Windows Command prompt by typing "C:\myProgram.exe InputFileName.txt > LogFileName.txt " and I just wait until it says "FINISHED."

Additional info: Basically, the program starts with the input file containing molecular data, does a bunch of calculations on that data, and writes the results to file. -- On my NEW computer (10,000 RMP hard drive, new AMD 6 core processor... etc) the calculations still TAKE DAYS. FYI - the program does not run "in parallel" (WHATEVER that means).

But I also use Linux. The program was only written for Windows, as far as I know. However, I can easily get the program to run in linux through the Terminal, using WINE. But my question is this: Will the "myProgram.exe" run more slowly on Linux, when invoked using WINE (as compared to running it via Windows Command Prompt)?
If it is slower, are we talking 2x slower? 10x? Or is it just, like, 5% slower?

Thanks,
me
Quote from: bhill4 on March 01, 2011, 09:09:16 PM

If it is slower, are we talking 2x slower? 10x? Or is it just, like, 5% slower?