So I thought about this on my drive back from the gym today. What I believe Python needs for world domination is to drop its C runtime and adopt the mono runtime as the new “blessed by Guido” implementation. Why you may ask? It would bring together one of the best languages ever developed with [...]
Does anyone know of such strange, yet delightful, gathering? I would like to see how things are going in mono land…
For instance in the code below: using System.Threading; public class foo { public static void Main() { new Timer(new TimerCallback(cb),null,200,5000); Thread.Sleep(Timeout.Infinite); } public static void cb(object state) {} } the current implementation of Threading.Timer will create a new thread for every new Timer object created. Why is this bad you might ask… well, primarily this [...]
I just submitted a patch to upgrade monodoc to gtk-sharp-2.0 and thus finally put an end to all of the Pango related crashes in our beloved documentation browser… hopefully that will mean no more angry emails complaining that monodoc crashes too much. We will see. Update.. here’s the proof:
So, I’m writing a little toy app (a single thread web server in c#) and I’m using the awesome “heap-buddy” tool to track heap usage… and this is what I see: [terminal] [rafael@salamandra Ophion.ZServer]$ heap-buddy /tmp/zserver.pf types fullname Type # Total AvSz AvAge BT# string 6462 563k 89.2 0.7 663 int 14731 172k 12.0 0.0 [...]