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by giulianob 4827 days ago
There are games running on Mono (e.g. Unity C# scripts, Bastion was ported to Mono to run in Chrome, etc..). I'm sure the performance of Mono may depend on your specific application but many people have been using it without any issues.
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melling 4827 days ago
Mono has been out for years, and I'm sure there have been great improvements. Does anyone have recent comparisons of it vs C# on Windows? I'm sure people must be curious.
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and21OS 4827 days ago
the c# performance over mono is really different to the f# performance..while c# has a decent performance on mono, f# doesn't performance so well......
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profquail 4827 days ago
You can run F# on the old "stable" branch of Mono (2.10.x), but I'd highly recommend running Mono 3.0.x instead. The older version uses an older, simpler GC which works OK for C#, but which seems to have trouble with F# (which generates more G0 objects than C#). The new 'sgen' GC in Mono 3.0 is a huge improvement though, so you shouldn't see much (if any) performance difference between F# and C# apps.
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Paradigma11 4827 days ago
Do you have any links with benchmarks? Very interesting.
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