Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[Adam Wilson]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:47:02 -0700, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org>  
wrote:

> Am 12.09.2013 18:45, schrieb Adam Wilson:
>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:22:18 -0700, Trent <anon at nope.avi> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, 12 September 2013 at 15:55:26 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 12 September 2013 at 11:30:57 UTC, PauloPinto wrote:
>>>>> I don't get the point, what there is VM like when I compile Java,
>>>>> Scala, F#, C# native code?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Compiling such language to native code require horribly convoluted
>>>> code generation. For instance, an helloworld in java compilled
>>>> natively with gcj gives you a 50Mb (!) binary blob.
>>>
>>> GCJ also doesn't offer improved performance over the JVM for
>>> non-trivial code. It will reduce the startup time, since no JIT is
>>> needed, but beyond that it doesn't really offer benefits.
>>>
>>> Not sure about other VM->native compilation
>>
>> Microsoft built the Singularity OS using a special full-native compiler
>> for C# called Sing#. Very cool piece of technology that I really wish
>> they would release to the public:  
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_Sharp
>>
>
> You mean this?
>
> http://singularity.codeplex.com/
>
> --
> Paulo

Indeed. Would be really nice to revive Sing# and make it into a first  
class too. To bad it's license to so restrictive as to be unusable....

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