Shared source CLI essentials
by David Stutz · first published 2003
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Possibly my favorite programming book is Shared Source CLI essentials. It walks you through the internals of a functioning Virtual Machine for the .NET platform. You get JIT (compiling), GC, class loading, etc. It's presented very straightforward and there is lots of…
on “Ask HN: Which compiler book to pick?” ↗Excellent post. The blog [0] is an incredible boon for anyone interested in CLR internals. I wonder if the author considered writing a book, kind of modern Shared Source CLI Essentials (that I read years ago and hold in high regard)? [0]: http://mattwarren.org/
on “Adding a new Bytecode instruction to the .NET runtime” ↗Yes...and I also had Ted Neward's book "Shared Source CLI Essentials" to go along with it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shared-Source-Essentials-David-Stut... The problem with Rotor was that they ripped out of all the good bits and replaced with not so good things, for example…
on “A History of .NET Runtimes” ↗