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CoreCLR

Discussion in 'Experimental Scripting Previews' started by Qbit86, Oct 22, 2018.

  1. Qbit86

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    Qbit86, Oct 22, 2018
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  2. bdovaz

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    I'm also interested in this.
     
    bdovaz, Oct 22, 2018
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  3. TJHeuvel-net

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    They're building their own compiler like this, namely Burst.
     
    TJHeuvel-net, Oct 25, 2018
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  4. Qbit86

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    Burst is different piece of technology, it's not directly related to target environment and BCL.
     
    Qbit86, Oct 25, 2018
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  5. RDeluxe

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    Would like to know too.
     
    RDeluxe, Oct 30, 2018
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  6. xoofx

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    Afaik, nobody is currently working on this. There is an ideal plan that we would like to be able to run ECS tech on CoreCLR at some point, but it is unlikely to happen in the short/medium term.
     
    xoofx, Oct 30, 2018
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  7. Alloc

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    So an heavily upgraded runtime is out of scope? :(
    As nice as ECS might be it's a feature limited for very specific use cases. Not every generic .NET code can be adapted to ECS. CoreCLR on the other hand is supposed to give a substantial performance boost and would probably benefit everyone, including third party code and even generic .NET code (not made with Unity in mind).
     
    Alloc, Oct 30, 2018
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  8. liiir1985

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    CoreCLR currently doesn't work on platforms which don't allow JIT, like iOS.That's also the reason why unity made il2cpp.
    CoreCLR's AOT solution CoreRT is still in pre-alpha status and not production ready, so it's most unlikely unity would adopt coreclr at any near future
    I used to integrate the gc from coreclr into unity. But soon I realized, this would be nearly impossible, since it's not possible to obtain reliable stackmap from clang compiler or llvm platform. This whole story makes precise GC not usable.
     
    liiir1985, Nov 26, 2018
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  9. GeekZebra

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    Any news or update on this?
     
    GeekZebra, Jan 27, 2020
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  10. MechEthan

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    MechEthan, Jan 27, 2020
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  11. GeekZebra

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    Thanks for the info, I'm really hyped with the burst compiler too but I was wandering if we would be one day able to run on CoreCLR? If there was a plan to implement it at some point or if it is completely ruled out.
     
    GeekZebra, Jan 27, 2020
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  12. SirIntruder

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    Completely understand that there is no simple way of getting CLR in any short/medium future. Does Unity plan on aligning its Mono branch to Net5 when it comes out later this year? Microsoft promised Net5 will feature Mono with latest CoreFX system libraries.
     
    SirIntruder, Jan 27, 2020
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  13. xoofx

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    About CoreCLR, there was a similar discussion recently and I responded here
     
    xoofx, Jan 28, 2020
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  14. GeekZebra

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    Thanks. That's good news someone is actually looking at it.
     
    GeekZebra, Jan 28, 2020
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  15. nickrart

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    Indeed! this would be awesome
     
    nickrart, Feb 2, 2020
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  16. jflejmer

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    Are there any updates on this?
     
    jflejmer, Nov 7, 2020
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  17. JoshPeterson

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    No, we don't have any updates on CoreCLR support now.
     
    JoshPeterson, Nov 9, 2020
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  18. LoneDev6

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    Any news on this?
     
    LoneDev6, Jul 11, 2023
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  19. JoshPeterson

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    JoshPeterson, Jul 11, 2023
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