[tdicola]

Sure, but ngen solved that problem years ago: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t9t5wcf(v=vs.110).a...

[itsboring]

Yeah, and mono's AOT too. I wonder if this is really just ngen integration into VS and thus not really a big deal.

[andyjohnson0]

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7520687

[spo81rty]

So I guess this is ngen in the cloud to skip doing it on the PC.

[sriramk]

If I remember ngen is very architecture/platform specific - that is why it has to be done on the target machine. This sounds like it is done ahead of time with support for a variety of architectures.