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Re:Announcing .NET Native Preview by tdicola on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:37PM (#7520062)
Sure, but ngen solved that problem years ago: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t9t5wcf(v=vs.110).a...
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Re:Announcing .NET Native Preview by itsboring on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:39PM (#7520069)
Yeah, and mono's AOT too. I wonder if this is really just ngen integration into VS and thus not really a big deal.
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Re:Announcing .NET Native Preview by andyjohnson0 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:24AM (#7521561)
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520687
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Re:Announcing .NET Native Preview by spo81rty on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:43PM (#7520090)
So I guess this is ngen in the cloud to skip doing it on the PC.
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Re:Announcing .NET Native Preview by sriramk on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:13PM (#7520241)
If I remember ngen is very architecture/platform specific - that is why it has to be done on the target machine. This sounds like it is done ahead of time with support for a variety of architectures.
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