From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Feb 1 17:53:40 2010 Message-ID: <4B675A8E.3060504@atari-source.org> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:49:50 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] mono References: <11a6f2b11001270642j41b73ecepfd4a7a7cbb3fb354@mail.gmail.com> <11a6f2b11001302144r453c353xdb21efddf53b2ee4@mail.gmail.com> <231FB8B6-8A4A-4EE1-A09B-33C8D77817DC@seznam.cz> <4B65FC7E.6090600@online.no> <4B67573E.5070008@online.no> In-Reply-To: <4B67573E.5070008@online.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 2/1/10 5:35 PM, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > Helmut Karlowski wrote: > > >> I agree here, but that doesn't mean that VM and threads should not be >> implemented. >> > Not at all, I was just not very happy with the suggested implementation ;-) > > >> As for mono: I think first do the above and then see what is possible. >> > To put it this way - do we really want to spend CPU cycles on a run-time > interpreter? Is this how to get compact and responsive applications on > our system? > > Jo Even > > > Indeed on a system many times as fast as ours (Nokia 770) I have written off mono and gtk# as being too slow. C++ is THE high level language to use on our platform. Thanks, Mark