[tsenkov]

Was someone from marketing writing this: "the performance of C++ with the productivity of C#" ... on startup. And not even on every startup, but only the first. And not even the first, since, as you know, there already are a lot of (unarguably, productive) features (such as GC etc.) making apps slower than C++ apps.

Also, is it just me, but this sounds like a glorified NGen in the usual build process (compiling for production goes straight to native), instead of NGen in the background optimisation service?

I am all about getting the new tools, switching to new, more productive ways of development (in fact I was programming in C# for about 3 years), I simply hate when false information is being spread, just because it sounds better to the sales person.