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Kevin Burton - 06 Jan 2007 18:58 GMT

With generics I would like to get some opnions on when recompilation is
required. I have a class R<T> where T will be changing and I want T to be
defined in a different assembly that would be recompiled each time that T
changes but I don't want the code that instantiates R<T> to have to be
recompiled just "automatically" use the changed assembly where T is defined.
Is this possible in general (if T is a class)? What if I restrict T to an
interface?

Thank you.

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Ben Voigt - 08 Jan 2007 15:10 GMT

> With generics I would like to get some opnions on when recompilation is
> required. I have a class R<T> where T will be changing and I want T to be
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> Is this possible in general (if T is a class)? What if I restrict T to an
> interface?

The .NET compile process is broken into two steps, source -> MSIL (cl /clr,
csc, etc), and MSIL -> machine code (JIT). In your scenario, you won't have
to rerun the first phase ever, and the second phase will rerun automatically
each time a different value class (struct) T is used, but all instantiations
for classes will use the same code.

> Thank you.

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