D vs VM-based platforms

[Jari-Matti Mäkelä]

Pragma wrote:
> Perhaps this is your reply sailing right over my head, but I
> was commenting more about how the .NET
> installer spends all this effort NGEN-ing the CLI distribution on install
> (supposedly anyway).  If they're deploying to just one target platform,
> why wouldn't they just pre-compile before release?

Oh, that. I've probably spent one year too many compiling Gentoo, it didn't
even come to my head until some time after pressing the 'Send'. :)