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Dotnet - Its possible to generate the assembly of specific platform

Dec 9 2011 11:40PM by Manas Ranjan Dash

In general, when a .net assembly is compiled, it will generate IL, When its executed, it can be converted to any platform native code.

Its possible to create assembly directly targeting specific platform. To generate Platform specific assembly such as X86 machine running 32 bit Windows Verson, X64 machines running 64-bit windows, Itanium or ancpu(default). The resulted code can run on the target platform.

use /platform:string option of the csc compiler.

Eg:

csc /platform:Itanium myItanium.cs

4 Comments

Hi Manas,

Nice tip. Will this gives better performance compared to traditional approach?

commented on Dec 9 2011 12:38PM

Ramireddy

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Hi Ram

Can you tell us what traditional approach you are talking about? Also if you have any, you can compare this by writing small piece of code. But then you should check in specific platforms for respective comparison. I am sorry I have never compared this.( may be you are talking about generating assemblies from Visual studio)

commented on Dec 9 2011 12:56PM

Manas Ranjan Dash

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In general, when .net assembly is compiled, it will be converted into Platform independent Intermediate Langaute(IL). When it is executed then only, according to the platform it is running, it will be converted to specific platform native code.

Is the command you mentioned will directly convert to native code of specified platform??

commented on Dec 10 2011 12:56AM

Ramireddy

2 · 41% · 12972

yes native code for a specific platform.

commented on Dec 27 2011 11:54PM

Manas Ranjan Dash

39 · 5% · 1482

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