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Mono is a completely different implementation from the CLR. I wouldn't be so quick to discount the CLR's GC.

I find it interesting that when folks want to claim that .NET is crossplatform they cite Mono, but when performance is discussed they are only prepared to discuss the performance of the MS Windows implementation provided by MS. The last time I benchmarked .NET (on Windows) it was significantly slower than java (with -server flag), but their EULA forbid publishing benchmark results at the time (was a long time ago, but since the parent is discussing .NET v1.0 and it's creation...)

Microsoft disallows .NET benchmarks. If you want to compare Java and .NET you have to have their approval first.

Can you cite that? It sounds like an odd thing to do/suggest. I'm not even sure how Microsoft would stop people even if they wanted to...

I was wrong, they changed the EULA in the meantime.

Here are the conditions I could find (you still have to comply with those conditions, but it's doable): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973265.aspx

And they can stop you through the EULA .NET gets distributed under, because no other license gives you the right to use .NET, so you have to do it under the terms of that license.

The MS CLR is also significantly slower than Java: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo/benchmark.php?test=al...

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