Common Language Runtime

Virtual machine component of Microsoft's .NET framework Program execution General concepts Code Translation Compiler Compile time Optimizing compiler Linking Execution Runtime system Executable Interpreter Virtual machine Intermediate representation (IR) Types of code Source code Object code Bytecode Machine code Microcode Compilation strategies Ahead-of-time (AOT) Just-in-time (JIT) Tracing just-in-time Compile and go system Precompilation Transcompilation Recompilation Meta-tracing Notable runtimes Android Runtime (ART) BEAM (Erlang) Common Language Runtime (CLR) and Mono CPython and PyPy crt0 (C target-specific initializer) Java virtual machine (JVM) LuaJIT Objective-C and Swift's V8 and Node.js Zend Engine (PHP) Notable compilers & toolchains GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) LLVM and Clang MSVC Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) vte The Common Language Runtime (CLR), the virtual machine component of Microsoft .NET Framework, manages the execution of .NET programs. Just-in-time compilation converts the managed code (compiled intermediate language code) into machine instructions which are then executed on the CPU of the computer. The CLR provides additional services including memory man