● 05.01.09

●● Gnote is a Lot Faster and a Lot Lighter Than Tomboy

Posted in GNOME, GNU/Linux, Mono, Novell at 12:16 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Can’t take the piss out of benchmarks

Summary: Gnote offers performance advantages over Tomboy, which is based on Novell’s Mono

THE legal issues around Mono put aside, Tony Manco has just compared Tomboy and Gnote [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], noting that the former takes 2.324 seconds to start on his system, which is very slow in comparison with just 0.280 seconds for Gnote.

As the screenshot below shows, Tomboy also consumes roughly three times what Gnote requires in terms of memory. This must be the legendary “Mono bloat” people frequently complain about. Perhaps it’s not just disc space and wasted space on the CD-ROM which counts as an issue associated with bloat. █

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