Re: [Vala] Zeitgeist porting

2009-04-04 Thread Christian Hergert
First off, I think Vala is a good choice, but for a completely different reason than what has been said here. Mono is quite fast, and just because it has a runtime does not mean it can't be. Remember that mono does JIT your code into native assembly at startup (most tests i've made take between

Re: [Vala] Zeitgeist porting

2009-04-04 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 13:35:53 -0700 Christian Hergert christian.herg...@gmail.com wrote: First off, I think Vala is a good choice, but for a completely different reason than what has been said here. Mono is quite fast, and just because it has a runtime does not mean it can't be. Remember

Re: [Vala] Zeitgeist porting

2009-04-03 Thread Jamie McCracken
Why? Whilst it has some interesting ideas, its a mere prototype and is by and large irrelevant to gnome as it stands (and thats true of gnome-shell as well - they are both purely experimental) If the ideas prove worthy it will be rewritten in a non-vm language and will likely use tracker which