Jonathan, That's great, I've really been looking forward to this.
>From my initial tests I think most of the GC problems I was seeing have been resolved - random crashes where the app just dies don't seem to be happening nearly as much. I say "as much"... to begin with I re-compiled against the new version and saw no crashes. Then I made a minor change and the newly compiled version would have an occasional problem (although not nearly as bad as before, and totally unrelated to the code change.) I need to do some more testing to be sure though. One thing I have noticed is that the GC now seems to hang the application for a long time in some cases, sometimes for minutes. In those cases the adb log will have no entries for the app, then a couple of minutes later it'll say GC_EXPLICIT freed X objects/bytes in Yms (where X is large, maybe 200K, and Y is small, maybe 50 ms). Following this GC_EXPLICIT everything just carries on as normal, no crash. I hope that this problem can be solved by re-instating a number of manual GC.Collect(0) statements that I'd previously removed because they added to the general crashing issue. Anyway, that's my initial feedback, it's looking encouraging. And the best thing is that following the post-Attachmate uncertainty there's now a feeling that things are moving forward quickly thanks to all of the hard work from Xamarin people - great job all of you! Cheers, Andy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Pobst Sent: 23 August 2011 22:03 To: [email protected] Subject: [mono-android] Mono for Android 1.0.3 Available [Link Fixed] Hey Everyone! We are happy to announce a new version of Mono for Android is available! Some changes included in 1.0.3: - Several big bugs fixed in Garbage Collection. - Faster stepping and variable inspection when debugging in VS. Full release notes: http://android.xamarin.com/Releases/Mono_for_Android_1/Release_1.0.3 MonoDevelop users should be prompted to upgrade next time they open MonoDevelop, or can use Help->Check for Updates. Visual Studio users can download and install http://c227137.r37.cf1.rackcdn.com/monoandroid-1.0.3.msi. You do not need to uninstall the previous version before upgrading. Happy hacking! Jonathan _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list [email protected] UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list [email protected] UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
