D vs VM-based platforms

[Pragma]

Joel Lucsy wrote:
> Pragma wrote:
>> But what's truly ridiculous is that .NET has exactly *one* target 
>> platform.
> 
> Oh? So you're saying the optimized code coming out of the NGEN sequence 
> for a P4 CPU will be identical to the code for a P3 CPU? And what about 
> Itaniums (or any other CPU) running 64 bit? I'd pretty sure Microsoft is 
> counting those variations as "platforms".
> 

Good point.  -1 for me for not recalling what started this particular portion of the thread. ;)

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