Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by raverbashing 3399 days ago
VB compiled to a VM that was embedded in the .exe file
1 comments
pjmlp 3399 days ago
PCode was only up to version 6.

Version 6 introduced an actual AOT compiler to native code.

Also its older brother, QuickBasic, compiled to native code.

Incidently VB is now again being AOT compiled to native code, via .NET Native and CoreRT.

link