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by pjmlp 3419 days ago
Starting with Windows 8, they improved the story of AOT compilation to native code.

With Windows 10, the native backend introduced on Windows 8.x was replaced by Visual C++'s backend, known as C2.

With C2, Microsoft is trying to make a kind of internal LLVM-like stack for their compilers, with clang, .NET and Visual C++.