> The CLR is quite terrible at small programs, as you're seeing. Yeah that's a good point, I deliberately chose to do a 'Hello World' app to make it easier to

> The CLR is quite terrible at small programs, as you're seeing. Yeah that's a good point, I deliberately chose to do a 'Hello World' app to make it easier to see what the CLR itself was doing, so that there was the bare minimum of non-essential things going on (that would make it harder to see). But the side-effect is that it does show the CLR in a bad-light, people expect 'Hello World' apps to be a bit 'slimmer'