From an embedded developers standpoint working with Gnome as a part of the Gnome Mobile and Embedded group, C and C++ are extremely relevant for our devices. Mono like .NET are quite frankly a no go in terms of memory and performance.
Sean On 7/13/06, Ben Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Steve Frécinaux wrote: > > > Iain * wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > Please read my previous emails. Designing everything in C will not help. > Evolution, OpenOffice and Firefox are evidence that writing your app in C > does not make it memory efficient. In the long term, a moving GC may be > beneficial. > > At some point, we also have to realize that users with less memory do need > to make compermises. For example, such a user might want to choose not to > use Beagle. > > -- Ben > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
