rahmu wrote. As a matter of fact, and until benchmarks are shown, it only means you don't have to install the .NET CLR, nothing more.
How is that remotely true? the fact that you don't have to install the CLR isn't the only thing it means. you could safely assume that it runs at a good performance rate similar to building it in pure objective-c until you find evidence of the contrary.
A similar analogy would be developing GWT applications as opposed to building the exact same thing in pure JS. You don't have to install the JVM, and yet you still get amazing performance.
Again, it's all about the context of your application, i presume in most cases you will not see any performance difference.
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Now concerning Monodroid, based on the architecture i see, it's quite different than how Monotouch works.
It appears that given monodroid applications run on the mono runtime, you will get 100% performance to the core, and yet when you're dealing with the exposed functionality through dalvik, you will not be working at 100% performance rate (given the side by side bridge through MCW/ACW).
Nevertheless, i like the architecture of Monodroid better than the one for Monotouch.