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Switching to RyuJIT is great. Also, the SIMD support being a first-class citizen in the runtime and BCL seems huge for gaming and number-crunching related applications.

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> huge for gaming

Not really, as they have no story for Mono not to mention ARM NEON support.

Is "story" the new hip substitute buzzword for "solution"? I really don't understand why I've started seeing it used in weird contexts lately.

Marketing buzzwords should not be used by programmers who want to be taken seriously.

I remember reading a report that found that the use of buzzwords was a benefit when done among management. But telling developers to leverage their synergies is probably not going to help you at all unless you are joking.

Yes, or as I like to say, "MB SNBU by P ww2b TS"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/tags/microspeak/

I think it sorta means "use case" and comes from Agile development, but the connotation is slightly different.

Complaining about "hip substitute buzzwords" is very hip, though. Thumbs up.

> I think it sorta means "use case" and comes from Agile development

That's one use, but the use of "story" upthread is a different common sense that is actually more like "solution" (and much more of a marketing term) than the requirements sense of "story" used in some development methodologies.

Consider, though, that with all of the new stuff being developed in the open, and huge parts of it being open sourced outright, that this could provide the Mono team with the ability to fast track feature parity.

a) Desktop gaming is a province of Windows.

b) Why would Microsoft have a story for Mono? Mono isn't a Microsoft thing.

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