On 11/20/02 Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > It's better to make the script generate properties:
> >
> > public static int O_EXCL {
> > get {return 0xwhatever;}
> > }
>
> The problem with this is that you need to compile the Mono.Posix
> assembly once for each operating system where it will be used. It will
> certainly work, but we will have different assemblies.
>
> If we are going that way, there is no reason for using this, we might as
> well, just use a const:
>
> public const int O_EXCL = 0xwhatever;
>
> Which the compiler can constant fold, so its even better ;-)
No, this is wrong, it will make the programs compiled against such an
assembly platform-dependent. Using properties does not.
> I still think that the model I proposed is best, as we dont need a
> per-OS assembly to be compiled.
But you need a per-OS shared library and the code will be slower at
runtime. So, the two choices are:
1) per-OS assembly
* faster
* smaller
* easier to deploy
2) OS-indep assembly + OS-dependent shared library
* slower
* bigger
* one more thing to deploy
The choice looks like a no brainer to me:-)
lupus
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