D vs VM-based platforms

Jari-Matti Mäkelä jmjmak at utu.fi.invalid
Thu May 3 11:22:42 PDT 2007


Pragma wrote:

> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>> lubosh wrote:
>>> Sean Kelly Wrote:
>>>
>>> That's why Microsoft provided utility called NGEN which is producing
>>> native binaries of .NET bytecode so JIT compilation won't be needed.
>>> Whole .NET framework is practically NGENed during installation.
>>>
>> 
>> Ah, interesting, so that's why the installtion of the the .NET framework
>> takes a rather long time, mistery explained.
>> 
> 
> But what's truly ridiculous is that .NET has exactly *one* target
> platform.

Hehe, on slashdot a 'you must be new here' reply would be modded +5
informative :P

Yeah, of course it makes sense. Let's abstract away the underlying hardware
& operating system and lock people on this new highly portable platform
with IP stuff, patents and DMCA. Problem solved.

It's interesting to see how much effort MS has put into .NET platform and
language research (well, except Java for some unknown reason :P) lately. I
don't think they will be giving it all away for free.



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