[Mono-list] Port of a Java quantum fractal generator.

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I've recently ported a Quantum Fractal generator to C#.  The port was 
> instructive and revealed some interesting details about the CLR, Java and the 
> C# compilers.  

This is an interesting post.

> C. MS.NET's CSC  -- 'csc /out:qf.exe /r:/usr/local/lib/Qt.dll FractalViewer.cs 
> QPaintBuffer.cs QuantumFractals.cs IQuantumFractal.cs'
> 
> 	1. 1118354/13.167 = 84936.128
> 	2. 1114996/12.535 = 82378.722
> 	3. 1125364/13.026 = 86393.674
> 
> 		~84569.51 datapoints/second
> 		~25 seconds to compile (note: am using wine to run the csc compiler so this 
> isn't really fair ;)

You might want to pass the /optimize flag to CSC, as it produces
slightly better code if you use that.  That explains why MCS generates
slightly better code than CSC. 

Do you have a link to the C# port, I would like to try it out myself.

Miguel.