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This one kept me busy for a few days, the windows version looses time in the conversions between double numbers and ints. It doesn't happen in linux, and I don't know the exact reason, it's probably related to mingw32, but anyway the fix is to merge muparser into raine and change its base type to "unsigned int". The consequence is that float numbers are not recognized anymore in the console, I'll just hope that no script used them, but I don't think any did. It goes with a dll update, a few dlls were updated including sdl2, so it's advised to update for all windows users, the new packages are dlls32-0.95.7z for 32 bits and dlls64-0.95.7z for 64 bits. The linux version didn't have this problem, but since I don't want to maintain 2 different versions the merge is done there too, and so raine doesn't need muparser to be installed anymore in linux. We get a very small speed improvement in linux too because it allowed me to make a few more optimizations since no type conversion is needed anymore now. Except that there were a few small bug fixes for the recent 0.94.12b, but the really big thing is the merge of muparser inside raine and the gain of speed it brings. https://raine.1emulation.com/

Yeah quiet around here these last days for a change... ! I finally found the reason why the windows version was slower for scripts, and I have a fix, I sent it by pm to ffman1985 so that he checks it, but he hasn't been reading his messages for 2 days ! Oh well, at least you are in linux, so you don't need this fix, the linux version doesn't have this problem. It's a crazy story about double to int conversions, I assumed they took almost no time with modern cpus, and it's the case in linux, but that's the very reason the windows version is slower, and I can't explain why, but it's a fact. The solution : merge muparser into raine (the doc encourages people to merge it in their project), and change its base type from double to unsigned int. It works, and I finally get the same speed in linux and windows, the only drawback is that float numbers are not recognized anymore in the console but it shouldn't be a problem normally. I didn't decide yet what to do if he doesn't come back in a reasonable delay to test this, since it's a windows problem only I can just ignore it, or release it without any more testing, or simply commit it to git and start to work on something else. I think I'll probably choose the last option.

I have nothing much to say, just my usual 1000 thanks for your awesome continues work on Raine and 0.94.12b is compiling nicely under Arch.