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wtracy on May 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: ARM-based MacBook Air test sample spied

I have no inside knowledge, but I'm betting that the ARM version of Windows will strictly run .net user applications. (There's already precedence for this with Windows Phone.)

Microsoft already tried to support Windows on two different architectures (x86 and Alpha) and failed when application developers never bothered porting to Alpha. They're not about to repeat that.

benologist on May 29, 2011 [–]

Couldn't they automatically recompile x86/x64 .NET stuff to ARM on install or first run (some of the time)?

rbanffy on May 29, 2011 | [–]

.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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