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by sudosysgen 929 days ago
That's still a compatibility layer, though, because the windows API is implemented on top of the Linux/UNIX APIs/ABIs. If it wasn't a compatibility layer it would run on any OS.

The code fundamentally does do more stuff because anything strictly OS related (by the standards of the host OS) has an additional layer of indirection. The fact that it's still faster is truly impressive.