On 30.03.2013 16:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:53:31 +0100
> Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> This is how Windows Phone 8 works, by using an offline compiler on
>> Windows Store to compile .NET to native code, thus you only install
>> native code, there is no JIT on the devices.
>>
>
> Unless the bytecode is both comparable to LLVM and has an escape hatch
> to include real pre-compiled binary data, then that still bugs me.
>
> STill a huge improvement over Android, though. Well, except that the
> user has to use Win8 ;)
>

They use a format known as MDIL (Machine Dependent Intermediate Language).

Basically everything is compiled down to machine code, except for memory
references and labels.

Linking is performed at installation time on the device. This allows the
code to be made available in native format, while keeping the flexibility of dynamic libraries to be in sync with operating system updates.

More information here,

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and-Peter-Sollich-Inside-Compiler-in-the-Cloud-and-MDIL

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-005

--
Paulo

On Saturday, 30 March 2013 at 15:46:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Unless the bytecode is both comparable to LLVM and has an escape hatch
> to include real pre-compiled binary data, then that still bugs me.
>
> STill a huge improvement over Android, though. Well, except that the
> user has to use Win8 ;)

At infrastructure level, this is also quite scary that everything is done in MS server farm.

On 31.03.2013 14:29, deadalnix wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 March 2013 at 15:46:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Unless the bytecode is both comparable to LLVM and has an escape hatch
>> to include real pre-compiled binary data, then that still bugs me.
>>
>> STill a huge improvement over Android, though. Well, except that the
>> user has to use Win8 ;)
>
> At infrastructure level, this is also quite scary that everything is
> done in MS server farm.

It is no different than any other commercial vendor.