[Mono-devel-list] .NET Blog on performance.

[Ben Maurer]

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:13:32 -0400, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com>
> wrote:
>> Rico Mariani's blog is very interesting:
>>
>>         http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/
>>
>
> The ngen one? or the newer one?  I guess most of his posts qualify
> though.
>
> I was wondering why we don't aot assemblies that we put in the GAC, and
> this seems like a good oppurtunity to ask.  I recently made a
> (hello-world level) test of just aot-ing mscorlib.dll and it was much
> slower than mono --optimize=all, which from the post above looks
> consistent with .NET.  I was under the impression that aot did the same
> operations as --optimize=all, is that right? I didn't try aot-ing more,
> perhaps someone has already done so and knows what sort of
> improvement it offers on mono.

aot uses the default opt set. You would have to do mono -O=all --aot ...

The reason is that all has some untested (or, not as tested) opts.

-- Ben