Iain * wrote: >> As for .NET, even Microsoft themselves had to pull back from using it for >> core >> functionality due to performance reasons - why do we think we will do any >> better? > > As someone who is running mono based applications fairly regularly, I > haven't noticed any major performance issues. We're not talking here > about replacing the core libraries with c# based ones, we're talking > about applications, and for me the mono based apps are just as fast as > the C based ones.
I'm not really against having C# apps in the core (in fact I don't really mind), what I'm more frightening about is having applications that run all the time, using managed languages, and, as a consequence, taking up a fairly large amount of memory, from the computer start to the shutdown. That's what I'm against including libraries, daemons or applets written either in C#, or in python, while having small apps you close once you're done (like alacarte) is fine. ATM, required C#/python apps are far from required (well, I might be wrong, after all apps do not really advertise what language they are written with), but I guess we should have guidelines wrt that (and yeah, I know deskbar is already in, and no I don't use it). Think about it: having an application you run a short time do not really impact on your available memory, so it's not a real issue on "low-memory" system (like mine: 224 Megs are not much memory these days), but long-running ones do. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
