July 31, 2001
12:04 a.m.
Some of the folks who have done other languages on the JVM have complained about limitations of the Java VM when it comes to supporting features of other languages.
Supposedly, Microsoft considered some of those critiques when designing the C# runtime & VM.
If, in fact, they have done a better job of generic VM design, then .NET may be worth lookint at. ( Especially as there is now Miguel de Icaza's Mono project. )
A question: are there already some data about what would be the actual performance of Python.NET vs. CPython ?
( Of course, politically, that may be inviting a lot of arguments -- see the slashdot threads about whether Mono is a good idea, or is just open source getting suckered by MS! )
Samuele Pedroni.