[GRLUG] python app speed

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 20:44 -0400, Steve Romanow wrote:
> Ben DeMott wrote:
> > There is a reason no modern commercial games run in .NET or JAVA - 

This is simply false;  .NET, and particularly Mono, is huge in the
gaming space.  There are even custom extensions to support the SIMD
instructions <http://go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?tlink=0@N%3aMono.Simd>

Not to mention <http://mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono>, includes
<http://www.ea.com/> and <http://unity3d.com/> 

Mono based games run on both the iPhone and the WII.
<http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/01/open-source-mono-framework-brings-c-to-iphone-and-wii.ars>
And there is <http://www.opentk.com/>.  

The Second Life platform switched to Mono recently specifically due to
performance issues <http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mono>