Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code

Re:Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code by matthewwarren on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:20PM (#13950557)

It's my understanding that the LISP -> CPP was only done in the beginning and is no longer carried out. I.e. all recent development is done directly in the .cpp source.

There's a reply from a Microsoft employee that seems to confirm this, see https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/408#issuecomment-78...

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Re:Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code by teh_klev on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:59PM (#13951311)

Here's a comment by Patrick Dussud on an old blog entry explaining the LISP origins of the GC:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/patrick_dussud/2006/11/21/h...

I thought I knew a thing or two about .NET, having used it since beta days, I had no idea LISP was used to bootstrap the original GC code. Fascinating stuff.

I've archived it here just in case:

http://archive.is/1qk25

Patrick is also interviewed on Channel9 and he talks about the GC. Not watched it yet:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Patrick-Dussud-Ga...

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Re:Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code by matthewwarren on Friday March 24, 2017 @06:53PM (#13952890)

Yeah that's a great video, he really knows his stuff!

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