[Mono-list] Performance benchmark

[James Mansion]

Rodrigo Kumpera wrote:
> There are a few things to notice. A virtualized machine will perform 
> significantly slower, specially
> for CPU intensive workloads.
Hmm - why?

> Mono runs faster on linux than windows, but the virtualization has 
> it's costs.
For compute tasks that aren't dependent on glibc vs MS libc issues or 
kernel calls? Why?

I would have thought that the speed diff reported looks odd and could 
use some
profiler application in this case.