Number of CLR and GC instances running on a machine?

Question

I create 2 .NET applications and run them on a machine - how many CLR\'s and gc\'s will be there?

In addition: I would like to have some background information on ho

Answer 1

Each process will have its own copy of the CLR as a hosting process. However, since the CLR is really just a couple of DLLs Windows will be able to share the DLLs between processes. For more information see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301727.aspx