On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 15:45, Met wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 16:33, Preston Crawford wrote: > > As a Gnome user and fan I'd prefer Gnome remained fast and unencumbered > > by possible legal tangles. > > This shouldn't _slow_ down Gnome. No matter how you look at it, they're > compiled languages - just think about all the applications you have on > your Gnome installation that aren't (Python, Bash, etc). Naturally > however, being a higher level language does mean some performance > decrease. But theoretically it shouldn't be a problem with modern day > machines, and should be faster than run-time compile/execution.
That's the problem. "Modern machines". Is that the consensus? That Gnome should only run fast on "Modern Machines"? I don't agree with that certainly. I still run an older machine as my ONLY machine. P3 800mhz with 768MB of RAM. Granted, that's a decent machine, but nowhere near what's "current". Yet because Gnome is *relatively* light (especially when I compare it to KDE) I can run a Gnome desktop at the same time as I have Evolution open, XSP running, Apache running, mySQL running, Ajunta open, Quanta Gold open, a couple bash prompts open, ripping a CD, playing MP3s, etc. That's the beauty of Linux. A similar task load at my previous job on a 1GHZ machine with 1GB of RAM would have killed the machine. So personally, as someone who develops, multi-tasks and enjoys the fact that my machine NEVER slows down, I don't want to start having my desktop being run through a VM. Sorry. I already run enough stuff at different times (Mono, Tomcat, Junit, Ant, etc.) through a VM. I don't want my Window Manager running off a VM. > Its not like Mono/Java would be used to actually rewrite the entire > framework. It would slowly entangle itself into the gnome core so that > you could write system and user level applications with them in order to > gain the benefits of higher level languages. Entangle being the word to remember. I don't think of "entangle" as a good thing. Preston _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
