On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 12:19 -0600, Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2008 April 23 Wednesday 11:17:32 AM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > Mono is orders of magnitude faster than JavaScript. Tamarin may help > > that some. There's this cool Silverlight demo where you can play the > > same chess algorithm against itself, one in JS and the other in .NET. > > .NET is around 100 times faster (and always wins). I'm sure there are > > many factors involved there but it's enough of a difference to impress > > anyway. > > Mono is orders of magnitude faster than JavaScript? Javascript is > implemented in my browser, whereas mono, I assume, must be provided by > an external runtime like java is. You might as well say that a java app > is orders of magnitude than javascript, but in order to fully appreciate > all that java speed traditionally you have to wait for the great java > runtime to lumber into RAM and sit there just to run some client side > webapp.
That's fair enough. I don't think Moonlight takes as long to load as Java does though. > > Early adopters have reported things like that they were able to > > re-implement their flash apps that took a year to develop in a week or > > so. > > That sounds somewhat misleading. Perhaps they spent a year developing > their flash app from scratch and then refactored it into silverlight in > a week? If you can show people how to refactor their Flash applications into Silverlight in a week without reimplementing you'll be a rich man. You're right that having implemented something once it's easier to reimplement but what people are saying is that it's easier to target Silverlight than to target Flash. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
