direction (Re: [Mono-list] Wheen someone asks about java...)

[Bob Salita]

>First, there is a lot of marketing hype surrounding
>C#/.NET. Microsoft claims that it "runs C++" and
>that its runtime is "common", and that it is
>intrinsically much more efficient. I find those
>claims dubious, but haven't made up my mind yet.
>There are some differences between the JVM and the
>CLR, but they are pretty localized.

Check your sources. You should be dubious.
Microsoft has made it clear that there is additional
overhead for running managed code vs. unmanaged code.
They hope it will be only a few percent difference.

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