[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] Reworked unified Locale classes

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> > Also, to apply this kind of patch that will affect everything, I would
> > like to know in advance the memory footprint (running mono --profile
> > before/after should tell us this) and how much extra code is JITed at
> > startup (how much slower this becomes for a sample program).
> 
> I agree with Ben that string are localized only several time and the little
> performance overhead caused by localization can be ignored. (The overhead
> should be little.)

Yes, but Ben limited himself to speculation.

I want to know the real impact (we have the tools, it should take a few
minutes at most to find out the numbers).

> And as I told several times in this topic the current ResourceSet is not
> efficient. ResourceManager of MS.NET uses a custom resource set called
> RuntimeResourceSet (private type, ResourceSet of MS.NET does the same as
> Mono's one) that loads each resource (either string or object) when it is
> needed instead of loading all of them at construction. It caches resource
> once they was loaded. This could be used in Mono as well or if we want we
> could use a ResourceSet that does no caching at all. But the advantages and
> disadvantages of using no cache should be compared in real life before
> making a decission.

Ah, interesting.  Am not familiar with this, but it sounds like we
should look into implementing this functionality.

> It's good.:) By the way, the most important thing: key/string technique will
> have the same performance and memory requirements if you use the same
> ResourceManager and ResourceSet classes. The only difference will be that it
> will look up even English resources in a file that means some performance
> overhead but I think it's so little that it can be ignored.

Well, I still want to have numbers at hand so we can make a decision. 

Miguel.