So what exactly is coming with extended C++ support?

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 at 13:59:01 UTC, po wrote:
>
>> This will most likely change when they get their IL2CPP 
>> production ready and start moving code from C++ to C#.
>>
>> Or when Microsoft finishes the ongoing work on .NET Native.
>>
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>> Paulo
>
>  I'd not seen IL2CPP before, but from this link:
>
> http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/20/the-future-of-scripting-in-unity/
>
> It appears to act as a replacement for the mono VM, allowing 
> for AoT compilation of .Net IL into C++, so that they can 
> benefit from existing C++ compiler tech.
>
>  It doesn't mention anything about moving C++ into C#.

No, but it is a possibility.

> Even with IL2CPP, C# has fundamental design trade offs that 
> make it slower than C++(GC is just one of them), so it wouldn't 
> make much sense to port engine code to C# unless they wanted it 
> to run slower.

C has fundamental design trade offs that make it slower than 
Assembly
(function prologs is just of them), so it wouldn't make much 
sense to port engine code to C unless they wanted it to run 
slower.

I have been through this discussion cycle a few times since the 
Z80.

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Paulo