On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <c...@msbit.com> wrote: >> Since you grant my premise, the corollary is that it wouldn't hurt to have >> mono installed. See here about the mono footprint on disk and in memory. > > That's so simplified that is stupid. Let's avoid such simplifications here. > > I'll introduce a new major runtime if there is a major "killer app" it > brings. I am trying to add high-value functionality while _removing_ > memory footprint so XS-on-XO is viable. >
+1 Sameer > So 2 examples to compare: > > - The mono code we're looking at would replace 40 lines of PHP, and > add the burden on me of maintaining a bit of the XS in yet another > language and toolkit. > > - ejabberd has been an incredible timesink, every time we want to do > something with it, it takes a very long time because few people know > erlang, and while I've learned a lot about it, I'm slow with it. But > it's worth it: no other jabber server is as efficient (memory/cpu) as > ejabberd. > > Overall, I am painfully working to reduce the mem footprint so that > XS-on-XO is viable. Similar efforts are needed on the Sugar side to > keep it viable on low-power platforms. > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel