How is the current performance of the Mono virtual machine?

Question

The web is full of different kinds of performance test of different languages, compilers, and virtual machines. Yet hardly any of these test the performance using some real-worl

Answer 1

I know this is old, but I just found it and none of the current answers (even miguel's) address a fundamental flaw in your question: a virtual machine.

You seem to be mis-informed on this point. .Net does not use a VM, and neither does mono. It is true that .Net uses a runtime library, and the code does compile to IL for deployment similar to Java's bytecode. However, a runtime is not a virtual machine. The difference is that after deployment the IL is itself fully compiled to native machine code before execution. No virtual machine need apply.