On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 19:33, Preston Crawford wrote: > 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.
My definition of "Modern Machine" clearly includes your computer since you happen to run EVERYTHING on it I'm talking about. As Lupus (http://www.advogato.org/person/lupus/diary.html?start=10) points out, it's not about replacing everything, but rather starting the next application you develop for Gnome with Mono. And having that as a viable core component of Gnome in future distribution releases. > > 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. Linux/Gnome/etc is entangled everywhere with depencies.... try removing python and see what happens. ~ Matthew _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
