> IIRC CLI is managed CLI compiles to MSIL and runs on the CLR, so yes, very managed by default. > c++/cli has received much less optimization effort than LLV

> IIRC CLI is managed CLI compiles to MSIL and runs on the CLR, so yes, very managed by default. > c++/cli has received much less optimization effort than LLVM/GCC/C# C++/CLI also found no regular users and people have been warned not to use it from even just months after its original release. From certain perspectives: It has really only had the one release in 17 years and been a "legacy tool" for most of that time. (Possibly two releases if you count C++/CX, though that doesn't run on the CLR and is its own weird one-off thing for COM weirdness.)