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Re:Mono 2.8 has been released by nileshk on Thursday October 07, 2010 @07:58AM (#1767525)
the most interesting feature in .NET is that its memory consumption is about half that of Java on an average application

Does that also apply to Mono? If so, are Microsoft's .Net and Mono equals as far as low memory consumption, or does one of them have an edge?

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Re:Mono 2.8 has been released by fauigerzigerk on Thursday October 07, 2010 @10:30AM (#1767933)
It does apply to Mono as well. I haven't done a detailed comparison, just some ad hoc tests. The reason why memory consumption is so much lower is not an implementation detail. It's because .NET knows structured value types (struct in C#) and hence uses way way fewer pointers than all JVM based languages.
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