9 Oct
2010
9 Oct
'10
1:17 p.m.
On 8 Oct 2010, at 16:56, Donn Cave wrote:
wikipedia: "Managed code is a differentiation coined by Microsoft to identify computer program code that requires and will only execute under the "management" of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine (resulting in Bytecode)."
In other words, a new way to say `interpreted',
I believe the wikipedia description is misleading. The difference between "managed" and "unmanaged" code is that the former is garbage- collected (i.e. free of memory freeing errors), whilst the latter is responsible for its own memory behaviour. Regards, Malcolm