http://blogs.teztech.com/2006/10/24/lots-of-ram-for-net-programs Programming, Rock Climbing and Running Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:07:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 http://blogs.teztech.com/2006/10/24/lots-of-ram-for-net-programs/comment-page-1#comment-38 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:19:10 +0000 http://teztechdev.teztech.com/?p=3#comment-38 [...] It’s been more than a couple of years since my last serious desktop GUI application. At that time, Windows and MFC were the obvious platform. If I had to run the application on Linux, I think I would have tried to get something going with Winelib, but MFC support under Winelib has always looked like a PITA. For new development, I would consider using Qt or wxWigits. My big complaint about both these libraries is the deliberate lack of support for exceptions – talk about stuck in the dark ages. I’ve done a little bit of WinForms programming. Overall, I think the library is pretty good (and with Mono, it could be cross-platform). My worry is the distribution requirements (though, eventually Windows 9X, ME and 2000 are finally starting to fade away) and the hefty resource requirements. [...]

]]> http://blogs.teztech.com/2006/10/24/lots-of-ram-for-net-programs/comment-page-1#comment-2 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:04:29 +0000 http://teztechdev.teztech.com/?p=3#comment-2 A few hours later, the ping utility is really easy to find… it’s #1 with 38MB RAM in use.

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