Steve Frécinaux wrote: > 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.
+1 - you effectively summed up my view as well :) I also think what one of the SUN chaps said about having layers in Gnome makes more sense. Gnome to me is a pic 'n' mix system where everyone has basically the same core all in C (the libraries, the daemons, panel, file manager and nothing else) and everything else is optional. Trying to define a "one size fits all" desktop using a myriad of incompatible platforms and technologies somehow just doesn't feel right (especially if you have a low end system or limited memory). Just my thoughts... -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
