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The Day Performance Didn't Matter Any More

OSNews published a nine-language performance roundup [http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5602&page=3] in early 2004. The results are summarized here: intlongdoubletrigI/OVisual C++9.618.86.43.510.548.8Visual C#9.723.917.74.19.9 65.3gcc C9.828.89.514.910.073.

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Obfuscating Code

Robert Cringeley, in a post early last year, raised some concerns about reverse engineering .NET code: .NET is almost exclusively Just-In-Time compiled. JIT'ing means, "I was just about to interpret this, but I'll compile it at the very last minute instead." In effect, the