On 20-Nov-2002, Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/19/02 Mike Jones wrote: > > My company is making a Geode-based computer that runs RedHat 7.2. We'd like > > to use Mono on this box, but are concerned about the performance hit when it > > runs on what is essentially a Pentium 266 system. There are folks in the > > company who are against this, believing that everything .NET is bloated, > > slow, and a CPU hog. > > > > I need to make an architecture decision now, and the hardware isn't > > available to run performance tests on. Could someone please provide some > > insight as to how well/poorly this will run on such a system? Thanks in > > advance. > > I used to do mono development on a k6 400. > Most of the benchmarks in mono are as fast as gcc up to about 50% > slower. There are a few cases where gcc can optimize code a lot better, > but usual application code is just about 0-10% slower with mono.
I presume you are comparing C# code compiled with mcsc and run with mono to C code compiled with gcc. My experience with Mercury and Microsoft's .NET CLR implementation is that Mercury code compiled for .NET generally runs about 5-10 times slower. Your mileage may vary. -- Fergus Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "I have always known that the pursuit The University of Melbourne | of excellence is a lethal habit" WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh> | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
