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As an F# developer, I find it a little frustrating when people assume.NET = C#. If the blog post is about the speed of IL generated by the latest C# compiler, it should say so in the title instead of claiming to measure the performance of .NET in general.


The runtime team certainly looks at discrepancies where C# and F# generate different IL that should still run about the same when JIT-compiled. So while C# is the main focus (also since the runtime libraries are written in C#), F# is not forgotten and benefits from a lot of those improvements as well.


In what concerns .NET Native, F# was definitly forgotten, given that for a long time it did not compile MSIL required by F#.

And even though it works today, it is more of an hack than anything I would thrust to sign into production with my name on it.




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