RE: Overhead and Best Practices

What exactly do you mean by "overhead"? What two things are you comparing?

Michael Kay 

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> Behalf Of Mark Proctor
> Sent: 19 April 2006 15:53
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> Subject: [Ikvm-developers] Overhead and Best Practices
> 
> IKVM with Drools 2.x has been a great success. We are now 
> looking to do something similar for Drools 3.0. However we 
> are under pressure for a full port of the core code - which I 
> want to resist due to the resources needed to maintain such an effort.
> 
> One key issue that .Net developers bring up is the overhead 
> of using IKVM - quoting figures of over 20%. I have no 
> empiracal facts, but I find that hard to be true. Anyway it 
> would be good if IKVM developers could provide some empircal 
> information and also best practices - i.e. 
> things to avoid if you want speed. Then I can say we are 
> using IKVM overhead for X is no more than 3%, overhead for Y 
> is 5%, we avoid Z which is 20%. If the overhead is only a few 
> percent and IKVM  continues to prove stable, as it already 
> has done, the case for a native port diminishes.
> 
> Also maybe a "Get the Facts" document might help, as i have 
> some users worred about a Frankenstein system; even though I 
> tell them that running Java on .Net is no different than 
> runny Python or VB, it all compiles down to IL.
> 
> Mark
> 
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