Monthly Archives: May 2010

Scala on Mono

In ScalaMono.scala:

Then,

Edit: Weak Mono/JVM comparison removed.
Update: wks asked me to try calculating some larger Fibonaccis to normalize runtime startup cost when comparing Mono to JVM performance:

Mono: 0.42s total
JVM (IcedTea6 1.8): 84.45s total
Go, Mono, go!

Reintroducing the Jonometer

I finally had some time to port Matt Zimmerman’s “Jonometer” to Haskell, and have finished version 1! The following bit of code compiles natively, is statically typed, and requires no type declarations due to Haskell’s amazing type inference.
You’ll need hs-twitter, and you can run this as a script like ./jonometer.hs

Now I need to bone up [...]

Hello, Unity

This is an early version of Unity, what will hopefully become the new interface for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10:
Unity comprises:

A launcher that makes opening and switching between applications delightful.
A panel where indicators behave uniformly.
A view of your installed applications, with Ubuntu Software Center integration.
A view of your files, with quick access to favorite folders, recent [...]