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Re:Safe Native Code by krylon on Sunday December 20, 2015 @03:08PM (#10768114)
One of the earlier posts in the series explained Midori in more detail. Apparently it was a research operating system built at Microsoft to explore using safe/managed code for building the entire OS while also aiming for the same kind of performance you get with raw C/C++.
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Re:Safe Native Code by MichaelGG on Sunday December 20, 2015 @03:28PM (#10768184)
So what does "booting Windows" mean? Did they port some sort of Win32 compat thing or was that supposed to be a general term for their UI?
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Re:Safe Native Code by ellism on Sunday December 20, 2015 @08:00PM (#10769003)
In addition to backend compilation for managed code, Phoenix could continue to be used to compile C/C++ code. One of the things the team did was continue to compile the Windows codebase to compare Phoenix and UTC (for both functional and performance reasons, IIRC).

Disclaimer: I was on the Midori team for a few years but did not work on Phoenix itself.

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