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