Even after 2 years in .NET I still get confused about this. We say that all CLR compilers emit CIL or MSIL and that's what gives the ability to interoperate so nicely between CLR languages. The CLR is an abstract stack based machine that supposedly executes CIL. But does it ever really "process" or "execute" CIL in its VES since all .NET code is JIted and always runs native code? If it is always JITed, when or does the VES run any of the CIL? I'm a little confused.
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