You raise a good point mr Gale and many others, but what I'd really like to know is your opinion if C++.NET code would execute faster than true CLR C# code? C++.NET simply uses the /clr option on the compiler, so would that slow down the code exeution normally without the /clr option? The JIT compiling on JScript.NET isnt very quick, mainly because the compiler was made truely of C# managed code. C++ is mainly unmanaged, so code execution would still be fast right?