Thanks for the reply with lots of information that I was unaware of. As you've guessed, I'm a Linux novice and it shows. My choice of openSUSE was dictated by the Mono version. Strangely, when I installed Ubuntu and then downloaded Mono I got 2.2 (I think) but now I see that 2.4.2.3 is available for 9.10. I will give that another go but I can't say I found openSUSE difficult to use. I've changed the default shell to Gnome during installation.
The minor problem I had doesn't seem to have anything to do with virtualization and comes from the Mono XML library. I had to work around it but it wasn't a big bother. Regarding gtk# I guess it might offer a good alternative but I do very minimal GUI stuff and I'm not real keen on introducing another dependency so I'll probably stick to plain Winforms for now. Switching to C# is also not an option for me, at least for now - the goal was to make the application run under Mono and since it was achieved I don't see a compelling reason to switch to C#. The application in question is a crypto simulator that isn't expected to support a large amount of concurrent transactions anyway so I'm following a "good-enough" rule for now. Asc() and Chr() performed fine under Mono until they came across an 8-bit character coming through the network from another machine. At that point I'm guessing that the localization kicked in and they gave out incorrect information. Switching to methods of the System.Text namespace solved this. Again lots of thanks, I appreciate the time you took to respond. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Mono-2-6-3-and-performance-tp2017537p2018064.html Sent from the Mono - VB mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mono-vb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-vb
