HA HA, sure it does! Why wouldn't it, since it would be running natively! /IGNORANCE
"Here are some Benchmark results between Wine and Windows XP, Your mileage will vary depending on your Linux config, Wine version and Hardware.
I plan to do a follow up roughly each six months to see what are rate of progression is and post the results here with +/- %'s.
For past results: [WWW] Wine: 20050419 vs XP
Wine has the current lead on 67 tests"
http://wiki.winehq.org/BenchMark-0.9.5