You want examples? Sure ya do.

Jo Shields’ and the Ubuntu community are masters at this: One example we’ve seen before: Banshee is a perfect case where several lies and distortions are still being repeated, despite being corrected multiple times. And, the FUD aftershocks from the disgusting attacks on Gnote continue.

I know it seems I’m harping on Mr. Shields – but the fact of the matter is that his blog produces the majority of the pro-mono talking points that I encounter. So it’s simple just to go right to the source in these cases.

Those are exceptions, though, not the rule, right?

I see we have a skeptic on our hands. How about the claim that mono is faster than C++? In introducing the Mono.SIMD libraries, Miguel de Icaza provides a clear chart illustrating the speed gains over C++:

Look at that speed! Mono is awesome rocks!

It’s funny to note that all the language around this graph tries really hard to establish a tone of serious benchmarking: “I wanted to implement a real game workload”, “did a straight-forward port to Mono.Simd without optimizing anything”, it’s based on pre-existing code, asks for others to evaluate and post thier experience.

Well, buried down in the comments, someone did evaluate the bold-ass claim that Mono.Simd might be around 4x faster than a comparable C++ implementation:

The C++ program was compiled in Debug Mode. It’s not a fair comparison. Here is a benchmark on Windows XP with C++ program compiled with MinGW 4.3.2 and Visual Studio 2005.

Reality has a well-known C++ bias.

See those long-ass bars at the bottom of every test? That’s Mono.Simd. Of course, Mr. de Icaza quickly moved to update the source code and post a correction, since the results were totally invalid.

Hahahahaha, No. Sorry, I cracked myself up there. Actually, Mr. de Icaza took the show on the road to a Microsoft developer’s conference:

Gotta get that good word out!