[DUG] EMBARCADERO MY GRIPE

[Jolyon Smith]

... and if only I had a million dollars I would be rich.


As for Xamarin performance, consider the source.  By which I don't mean the
code, I mean who is making what claims.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17134522/does-anyone-have-benchmarks-code-results-comparing-performance-of-android-ap

Any advantage is only seen in an Intel Android VM.  On ARM (by far the most
prevalent in terms of actual Android hardware), Dalvik beat Xamarin almost
every time, until Xamarin.Android 4.7.11.

What is odd about this is that these results are from 2013, over a year
after Xamarin posted their claims about *astonishingly* superior
performance vs Dalvik.  It is interesting that Xamarin do not disclose what
environment their benchmarks were run in.  Also interesting that they do
not compare themselves to ART which is the more relevant comparison going
forward.

In any event, I don't think there is any chance that Google will drop ART
any time soon (they already dropped Dalvik) in favour of a Mono based
implementation of Android.  ;)



On 29 July 2015 at 13:51, Leigh Wanstead <leigh.wanstead at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jolyon,
>
> I mentioned to you before in the thread. If google choose to use mono
> framework in android, xamarin apk size can reach several kb too. The reason
> for me to use Xamarin is the app developed by Xamarin using mono framework
> is faster than dalvik before ART time. The load time for the app is not my
> main concern. I care about the speed running the app for whole lifecycle.
> Here is the url https://blog.xamarin.com/android-in-c-sharp/
>
> Regards
> Leigh
>
> On 29 July 2015 at 13:40, Jolyon Smith <jsmith at deltics.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> What a fabulous attitude.  It's thanks to that sort of thinking that we
>> now "need" machines with quad core 2.5GHz processors and 8GB of RAM just to
>> run frikkin MS Word.​
>>
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