Re: Time to heat up the new module discussion

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Iain * wrote:

>> As for .NET, even Microsoft themselves had to pull back from using it for core
>> functionality due to performance reasons - why do we think we will do any better?
> 
> As someone who is running mono based applications fairly regularly, I
> haven't noticed any major performance issues. We're not talking here
> about replacing the core libraries with c# based ones, we're talking
> about applications, and for me the mono based apps are just as fast as
> the C based ones.

I'm not really against having C# apps in the core (in fact I don't
really mind), what I'm more frightening about is having applications
that run all the time, using managed languages, and, as a consequence,
taking up a fairly large amount of memory, from the computer start to
the shutdown.

That's what I'm against including libraries, daemons or applets written
either in C#, or in python, while having small apps you close once
you're done (like alacarte) is fine.

ATM, required C#/python apps are far from required (well, I might be
wrong, after all apps do not really advertise what language they are
written with), but I guess we should have guidelines wrt that (and yeah,
I know deskbar is already in, and no I don't use it).

Think about it: having an application you run a short time do not really
impact on your available memory, so it's not a real issue on
"low-memory" system (like mine: 224 Megs are not much memory these
days), but long-running ones do.