Re: GUADEC redux and roadmap

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 22:21 +0200, Enrico Minack wrote:
> I am currently working that out and once it works it should not be much 
> maintenance, right? What is the aim of the ikvm and ikvmc if not making use 
> of existing well developed Java libraries within mono?  Once they are C# 
> dll's, who cares? It is part of the mono project, isn't it?

The main barrier is the overhead of running IKVM.  It essentially has to
duplicate (or at least translate) the class libraries from the Java ones
into the Mono ones.  I wouldn't be surprised to see memory usage double
using it, and memory usage is already a concern with Beagle.

Joe