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A comment on ARM-based MacBook Air test sample spied. Parent comment

Re:ARM-based MacBook Air test sample spied by benologist on Sunday May 29, 2011 @05:31PM (#2597657)
Couldn't they automatically recompile x86/x64 .NET stuff to ARM on install or first run (some of the time)?
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Re:ARM-based MacBook Air test sample spied by rbanffy on Sunday May 29, 2011 @05:33PM (#2597663)
.NET stuff is not native code. It's CLR bytecode, interpreted much the same way Java bytecode is. Some runtime environments do JITing, when the bytecode gets translated to native instructions.
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