Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ?

[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

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