On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 01:48 -0800, Jordi wrote: > Sorry for my ignorance but what's the difference between Mono JIT and > Mono Interpreter??.
You've hit on it already. The interpreter (mint) is slower than molasses in January, while the JIT (mono) is fast. More accurately, the JIT is a JIT, converting the CIL into machine code optimized for your particular processor, which executes directly on the processor. Once JIT is complete, there is *no* execution overhead (except for GC, which is arguably a separate but related issue). The interpreter, on the other hand, doesn't do that. It instead interprets each CIL instruction, with no optimization at all. It's like the difference between running a shell script and a C program. - Jon _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
