[Mono-devel-list] Language Shootout - problems with Mono times

[Isaac Gouy]

--- Paolo Molaro <lupus at ximian.com> wrote: 
> > Are we talking about the 'helper process'? 
> I tried by running a separate mono (which just sits there waiting fro
> a keystroke) so the helper process is not run when executing sieve, 
> but it makes no difference.

Yes, I tried a similar test after finding out about the 'helper
process' ;-)

> > What do you mean by "mono's usage of threads"?
> The only thing that comes to mind is that mono executes code in a
> subthread, not in the thread that executes main(). A quick pthread
> test shows that time behaves correctly in this case, though, so it
may
> be something else that confuses the kernel.

Hmmm. 

> > My ancient Linux 2.4.19 Gentoo gives both sensible results and too
> > small  results. (Not sure which version the other guys are using.)
> 
> Kernel 2.2.20 has the same behaviour: sometimes the results are
> correct and sometimes not.

Beyond me. Do you know of anyone who might be interested in looking at
this issue?


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