On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 at 07:19:23 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 October 2012 at 19:15:59 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Now Build 2012 is happening and the new Windows Phone 8
features have been revealed.
One of the most interesting is that .NET applications are
actually compiled to native code as well, before being made
available for download.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2012/10/30/announcing-the-release-of-the-net-framework-for-windows-phone-8.aspx
Assuming Microsoft eventually releases a native code compiler
for C# (better than NGEN), this will make D use harder in the
enterprise. :\
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Paulo
I don't think they're going to. There are many reasons of
keeping assemblies in easy to verify and operate bytecode, and
ngen has been here for quite a while without much impact.
The problem with ngen is that it has a very basic optimizer, and
there are some restrictions to which type of bytecode (no
reflection tricks) is ngen-able. Those restrictions are
artificial, other C# native code compilers (Mono, Sing#) don't
have them.
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Paulo
