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EdNotes: If You Want It, Here It Is


By Edward J. Correia
October 10, 2007 — 
Last time, I told you about a guy who blasted me for reporting on a tool that manages Eclipse-based desktop shortcuts. The tool, called eLauncher, happens to be written in .NET.

Following that newsletter, he wrote again, saying he had tried eLauncher in Mono and, "as any other programs in Mono, it's slow, very slow."

He went on to tell me that he quit working for Suse because "there are plenty of system tools written in Mono and they all run like a turtle."

I wanted to hear what Mono creator Miguel de Icaza might have to say on the allegation that his runtime is slow. So I e-mailed him. Here's his response:

Hello:

Am not sure which .NET applications on Mono he refers to. There are some slow applications (ZMD), but those are slow because of the way they are implemented and have nothing to do with Mono's performance.

Beagle is incredibly fast, faster than any other indexing engine to get results, and f-spot is probably the best of breed together with Banshee on Linux.

Miguel

Thank you most sincerely for the feedback. You can't possibly know how much I appreciate it.

Now, does anyone care about the language something is written in? If a tool is useful and performs adequately, who cares if it's written in VB, C# or Smalltalk? Don't misunderstand—my disdain for the control Microsoft has over my desktop runs as deep as anyone's. But I have nothing against its languages. And just to prove I'm not a language bigot, this week's Eclipse-a-Palooza is devoted entirely to .NET-based Eclipse stuff.

Now, a commercial announcement. Next Friday (Oct. 19) is your last chance to register early for EclipseWorld and save up to $200 on a Full-Event Passport. And if you don't register by next Tuesday (Oct. 16), we can't guarantee that you get the group rate at the Hyatt Regency Reston.

EclipseWorld classes are filling up fast. Don't miss your chance to attend the industry's FIRST and FINEST conference devoted entirely to YOU, the enterprise developers, architects and development managers using Eclipse tools and technologies. Hear from David Intersimone, Robert Martin, Mike Milinkovich and dozens of expert instructors.

You'll also want to attend the Eclipse Foundation Party on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

Register early for the Eclipse Foundation Party for your chance at a free T-shirt.

Visit Ian Skerritt's blog for more info.

AMD in the Umbra
AMD is now among the ranks of Eclipse Foundation members, joining ARM, Intel and other chip makers helping to advance the platform for its processors and their related tools. AMD made the announcement yesterday at the Eclipse Summit Europe in Germany.

As an add-in provider, the company intends to help ensure that Eclipse-based plugins, tools and application frameworks are optimized for its x86 and multicore processors, according to Earl Stahl, vice president of software engineering at AMD.

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