Microsoft Research is the genuine article. It's a world class research institution. I guess Phoenixey/LLVM type stuff is probably the way the winds were blowin

Microsoft Research is the genuine article. It's a world class research institution. I guess Phoenixey/LLVM type stuff is probably the way the winds were blowing in the compiler community at large. It's interesting how a lot of things that used to seem impossible are now in multiple software packages. You figure that once MS is rolling out a compiler technology in a big way, it can't get much more mainstream than that. I still don't totally understand why it was important for MS to push into JIT-compiled bytecode on Windows. From the end-user's standpoint, it just makes software slower.