IronPython on Mono howto

[Nick Craig-Wood]

sanxiyn at gmail.com <sanxiyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Okay, here we go:
[snip]

Thanks for those good instructions - they worked well!

I tried running a test program under mono/linux.

I found I needed to add

  import sys
  sys.path.append("/usr/lib/python2.4")

As per the FAQ to the code.  Setting this in an environment var would
be nice but I didn't find one.

The code then ran fine.  (Its a test suite for my sudoku solver.)

  $ mono ipy.exe ~/Python/sudoku.py -t
  ...........
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Ran 11 tests in 5.533s

Compared to

  $ python2.4 ~/Python/sudoku.py -t
  ...........
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Ran 11 tests in 1.637s

It seems to take about a second to start IronPython vs ~15 ms for
Python2.4, eg

  $ time mono ipy.exe -c pass

  real    0m1.034s
  user    0m1.000s
  sys     0m0.036s

  $ time python2.4 -c pass

  real    0m0.015s
  user    0m0.008s
  sys     0m0.007s

Over all I'm very impressed - it is great to have a new implemention
of Python.  I'm not sure mono is showing it off to its full extent
though!

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