>>As for DotNet doing desktop apps. Yes, it can, and rather splendidly, too. But there's a lot of overhead, IMO. <<
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>You're probably quite right. Using the "Performance Monitor" under W2000 (with .NET installed), one finds completely new categories of performance measurements dedicated to .NET and its various OS Hooks. It's like a BORG graft.

Well, of course that's a highly subjective way of putting it *s*, but yeah. Although, to be balanced, one should keep in mind we're seeing debug builds now, and you're considering the development environment, not the runtime that the users will see. Some preliminary tests are showing really nicely sized EXEs. 4K and thereabouts.