On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Didip Kerabat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to the language and the community. >
Welcome. If you haven't done so already, you can also join our IRC channel. It's a good place to discuss simpler questions about the basics of the language. > I'm wondering if anyone here have benchmarked Vala against Mono, for example. > In particular: performance of basic types and garbage collection. > I don't know about any recent benchmarks, but I think Vala will generally be a bit slower than Mono, but more memory efficient. It is definitely way faster than Python or JavaScript. It's much easier and faster to write a program in it compared to C or C++. I, personally, see the greatest benefit in the fact Vala compiles to C compatible native binaries, so you can use any Vala library you write in virtually any other (practical) language. Hope that answers at least some of your questions :) _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
