Gnote is a Lot Faster and a Lot Lighter Than Tomboy

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-05-01 17:16:20 UTC
Modified: 2009-05-01 17:16:20 UTC

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. ⬆

Comments

Darren

2009-05-01 21:46:01

I've just installed GNote and am impressed. Tomboy has just bit the dust.

HarryTuttle

2009-05-04 11:02:18

Well, maybe the name was chosen with foresight: tomb*oy...

Robert Millan

2009-05-01 22:30:24

Roy, you missed a link to the original article:

http://trmanco.com/2009/05/01/gnote-vs-tomboy-and-complete-mono-removal.trm

Roy Schestowitz

2009-05-01 22:41:47

It was posted a few hours after mine.

DOUGman

2009-05-01 23:24:42

Now we need someone to do Gnome-RDP, which is based on mono.

Roy Schestowitz

2009-05-02 06:41:05

Some people warn that GNOME-Do needs a replacement/port.

oiaohm

2009-05-02 05:07:28

This is the bloat I have been talking about.

Higher disk space usage can reduce memory usage. So yes less disk space usage can equal more ram usage leading to systems needing way more ram without good need.

10 megs more memory that is basically not forgivable. Thinking mono is being beat by a program built with Gcc that cannot optimize its way out of a paper bag due to its design.

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