D-BUS support for Mono

[Sami Haahtinen]

Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote:
> Yes, I think big and ugly like java. Here are a few numbers. Python2.3 
> and python2.3-dev total under 16MB of space. An attempt to install muine 
> tried to use over 60MBs disk space. Python memory footprint is under 9MB 
> in virtual memory, where mono is over 40MBs. Perl has about the same 
> picture of memory and disk usage as python and I do not think either 
> python or perl are small. I have just compiled a personal version of 
> python that fits in under 5MBs total, and that is still too fat in my book.

After searching the web for some benchmarks and statistics on python vs 
mono, i ended up with nothing. As for the diskspace, the source of the 
problem appears to be mono-assemblies-base, which basicly contains all 
of mono, it should be split to smaller parts. I agree with you there.

As for the memory footprint, i admit that mono takes up more memory than 
python, but that is an optimization issue, python has had time to tune 
their memory footprint. And as for your numbers, i highly doubt that 
kind of difference.

Simple hello world with reading from input:
   VSZ  RSS COMMAND
  4836 2184 /usr/bin/python ./helloworld.py
26508 5272 /usr/bin/cli ./helloworld.exe

It would be interesting to see a proper test suite built for all 3 
languages mentioned. Just to see how they relate to each other.

Ah well, stomped again.. But atleast it was fun ;)

-- Sami