Re: All .NET Languages are no longer equal.

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From: Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \) ("Ignacio)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:03:10 -0500

Hi,

 It may also be due that the C++ compiler should be more mature than those
of C# and VB.NET it has been around longer and had lots of optimizations for
a long time.

cheers, 

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message 
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> Jeff Louie <jeff_louie@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Imagine that. Up to now the party line was that the .NET languages
>> produced pretty much similar MSIL. With Visual Studio 2005, C++ is now
>> the most optimized. Ref. MSDN Magazine Jan 2005.
>
> No, that's been the case before now as well. The C++ compiler has
> always done much more optimisation than the C# and VB.NET compilers.
> Just how useful that is depends on the exact code - the JIT is where
> most of the really important optimisation is likely to occur, but
> occasionally the C++ compiler can do much better than the C# compiler.
>
> Usually when people talk about producing similar IL, they're talking
> about C# vs VB.NET.
>
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