Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Portability: The Microsoft C# JIT compiler runs under Windows .NET > on x86/amd64 and maybe it64 and what else? Just porting .NET to run > 0n Linux on the same processors was/is a bit task. Does MONO have a > JIT also?
Technically there is no such thing as a Microsoft C# JIT compiler: the C# compiler targets IL and the JIT compilers convert IL to the native machine, but C# is just one of the frontend compilers you could use. Microsoft do JIT compilers for .Net Compact Framework that target ARM, MIPS, SHx and x86. The Mono JIT supports: s390, s390x (32 and 64 bits) Linux SPARC(32) Solaris, Linux PowerPC Linux, Mac OSX x86 Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, OS X x86-64: AMD64 and EM64T (64 bit) Linux, Solaris IA64 Itanium2 (64 bit) Linux ARM: little and big endian Linux (both the old and the new ABI) Alpha Linux MIPS Linux HPPA Linux (from http://www.mono-project.com/Supported_Platforms) So I'd say .Net scores pretty highly on the portability stakes. (Although of course code written for .Net might not do so well). -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
