Suzanne Cook - Developing the CLR, Part I | WM_IN

Marsella
Error- there is no beer in the fridge!

Cant get the video to work, how do I download rather than stream?

talav

Please provide transcript to the video.

The quality of audio is quite bad. When can we see Chris Brumme?

Rossj

Something Suzanne said about 12 minutes in made me think, do Microsoft employees use a *real* pre-processor when writing managed code? I think Suzanne said something about using the pre-processor to define an Assembly name.

The Channel 9 Team
5 guys from Redmond

Talav, what kind of sound card/speakers do you have? The audio is easily heard and understood on my machines here.

To download the video click the "save" link underneath the video.

Minh
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I read somewhere that Fusion handles all the managed calls that require some sort of unmanaged calls or resources. Is this an accurate description?

Minh
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Beer28 wrote:
So my question is, does managed mean VM managed in general, or does it mean MSIL?

I first heard "managed" when .NET came out. So managed code is anything thar runs inside the CLR. C# is managed, VB.net is managed, MSIL is managed. VB6 is NOT managed.

Minh
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Beer28 wrote:
Is the CLR just a big CPU emulation machine?

I don't believe so. The JIT compiler does create native x86 instructions from MSIL ... then I guess at some point run those instructions.

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

What about rotor? You can look at that code and see what's going on. It's not exactly the same but it's pretty close.

Also, good to see this round of "who invented what" ended quickly. You know how much I love that game Smiley

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

What's to stop you from throwing together a BSD machine to play with rotor on?

Also, I think it's important to note that for most people, understanding exactly how the CLR loads a dll (and I mean exactly, it's always good to have a vague understanding) isn't that useful. While you and I may be interested, it's mostly an intellectual curiosity rather than a deal-breaker when it comes to platform choice.