Re: mono?

[Andreas Wüst <andreas.wuest@swissonline.ch>]

Hi

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:23, Edd Dumbill wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:06, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> > Which version did you try? I have used 0.23 and 0.24 quite a lot
> > (without the garbage collector though), and have NEVER experienced any
> > crash of mint.
> 
> 0.25 and 0.26 pre releases.  Only about 50% of the gtk-sharp demos
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^

Well, gtk-sharp != mono core. Interesting that it worked at all. I
haven't yet heard that much positive things about gtk-sharp.

But hey, not every app needs a gui.. ;) Lee didn't tell us yet what he
intended mono to use for!

> worked, as an example of what didn't work.
> 
> > And mint worked at reasonable speed for me.. (ok, I didn't do that heavy
> > stuff). Only multithreading wasn't that fast, mint needed a good amount
> > of time to set up the individual threads.
> 
> I was using a threaded program.

Yes, threading is slooow, at least last time I tried it on my 604 200MHz
box.. ;)

> > Or just go to http://go-mono.org download and compile the
> > package for yourself.
> 
> That's what I was doing :)

Ok. Have you been using the boehm gc from there or the gc package
provided by woody?

-- 
Best wishes,
Andi