Tanner Gooding
Tanner Gooding
Closing as it looks like this was resolved. Please feel free to re-open if that's not the case.
CC. @migueldeicaza, @eerhardt
The official VB language strategy is here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/getting-started/strategy. No, it is not dead, but much as is the case with .NET Framework the language is effectively frozen and not getting...
Worth noting that while some operations are just as fast for `integral`. Others, like multiplication, can be ~2x slower and so the exact perf benefit may then vary a bit...
> This isn't future proof as our APIs are declared to use stdcall, and support for this could one day light up in the runtime and break everything. This is...
Notably the ask for such runtime support is https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/37548.
CC. @richlander, @jkotas, @MichalStrehovsky, @davidwrighton
> Build and ship IL, and have AOT compilation occur on the destination machine at installation time, rather than JITting at runtime or AOTing at build time? This is essentially...
> Is related to https://github.com/dotnet/designs/pull/173? Or is this one here more about AOT? Its similar, but its about upgrading the baseline for AOT and therefore directly impacts all consumers of...
> Would this also cover how we compile the native parts of the (non-AOT) runtimes (GC, CoreCLR VM, etc.)? That would likely be up for debate. MSVC only provides `/arch:SSE2`...