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Are Native code making a comeback ? I think it never went away

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  4 months ago

  by JoeGecko

  Joe Gecko

  Manor Park, London, United Kingdom

  Joined 5 months ago

  Question: which is best for cross-platform, managed code using a runtime such as Java, .NET, or Flash, or is it native code? When Java arrived in 1996, Sun promoted write-once-run-everywhere as one of its key benefits. The arrival of just-in-time compilers for all the runtimes mentioned above removes many performance concerns. So is managed code the best solution?

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