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Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements

Zeb Figura of CodeWeavers has proposed a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver to help performance of running games and applications designed for Windows on Linux with Wine / Proton. As per the RFC (request for comments) posted onto the Linux kernel mailing listĀ Figura notes: "This patch series introduces a new char misc driver, /dev/ntsync, which is used to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives." Then giving some background on it: "The Wine project emulates the Windows API in us...

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