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Re:Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code by cm2187 on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:06PM (#13951843)
Mostly I never understood the point of JIT in the .net framework. You pay a price in term of startup time, but the reality is that you can only run .net on x86 and x64. So we might as well have saved the trouble. And the first time .net was given an opportunity to run on ARM (WinRT), they disallowed regular .net applications in order to introduce a toll through the windows store.

We would have been better off without JIT. Even now with ARM. You compile to 3 architectures,... so what?

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Re:Guide to the CoreCLR Source Code by chrisseaton on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:55PM (#13952158)
Normally I would argue that the point is that it allows speculative runtime optimisations, but .NET doesn't do that.
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