O'Reilly .NET Devcenter: Miguel on Mono

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sun Feb 10 03:26:09 PST 2002


http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/02/04/mono.html

"The JIT is now "self-hosting on Linux ... It can pretty much run anything
we throw at it," Miguel said, happy to be free of relying on Microsoft's C#
(pronounced c sharp) compiler. JIT allows him to work on Unix instead of
having to switch to Windows for compiling. He said he can't release
performance data comparing Mono's JIT engine to Microsoft's JIT, but does
admit that Mono's is slower.
Miguel said that before his company works on optimizing performance, it will
focus on making the compiler feature complete. Then, the next two features
Ximian will address are security infrastructure and garbage collection.

Why is Ximian interested? Miguel said Mono will not only help the company
internally, but could also help it land new clients. Mono will give the
company a stronger platform for developing commercial applications, and if
more developers move to Linux as their primary working environment, that
increases the number of potential clients for Ximian's software support and
services business.

Mono's next major milestone will be to have smart clients running on Linux
by June 2002, Miguel said. He is optimistic that there will be Windows Forms
applications developed on Windows running on Linux by this summer."



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