Re: [Algorithms] Complexity of new hardware

[Randall B. <rbo...@gm...>]

Is Mono lacking maturity in its tools or its runtime?

Miguel's recent announcement of a fast SIMD implementation for Mono
(http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Nov-03.html) strongly indicates
that performance is not an issue. In fact, the benchmarks linked from
his post indicate that the new runtime can beat naive C++
implementations. Of course, this is only for bare number-crunching.

MonoDevelop seems to be lacking support for dedicated console
development (no remote debugger, etc.), but is there something missing
for desktop games? Any info you have is appreciated: I'm considering
writing a simple shooter in C#.

 - Randall

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Nicholas "Indy" Ray <ar...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jon Watte <jw...@gm...> wrote:
>> If you do PC games, then C# is within inches of being a totally suitable
>> general purpose replacement, and it already is a good replacement for
>> many specific games or subsystems. It has nice reflection, you can poke
>> at objects while you're developing the classes, it has good interfacing
>> to existing native libraries, it has good performance, it allows
>> byte-by-byte access, etc.
>
> I don't know if PC Games include Mac or other *nix systems, but I
> don't feel mono is yet mature enough for game development, and thus
> for those who choose not to develop for Microsoft's platforms
> exclusively it's not yet a suitable replacement.
>
> Nicholas "Indy" Ray
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