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Re:The Heartbleed Bug by profquail on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @09:38AM (#7553283)
Did you actually read my entire comment, or did you just see "C#" and post a knee-jerk reaction? If you extract code from C# to C, you don't need a GC or any of the .NET class libraries -- you'd just have a standalone C file to use like any other.
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Re:The Heartbleed Bug by est on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @08:42PM (#7557034)
> If you extract code from C# to C, you don't need a GC or any of the .NET class libraries

The problem is, you do need them. There's no 1:1 C# -> C extraction. You have to extract at least some part of the CLR along with.

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Re:The Heartbleed Bug by scott_s on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @10:41AM (#7559546)
Perhaps another way of saying this is that you will always need a runtime. And if you reimplement the portions of the runtime that you need in C, you've essentially re-implemented .NET.
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