Glossary
This is a glossary of terms/abbreviations used in the runtime source code
- AOT - Ahead of Time Compiler
- EH - Exception Handling
- GC - Garbage Collector
- JIT - Just In Time Compiler
- Boehm - The Boehm Conservative Garbage Collector
- trampoline - A function implemented using hand written assembly code. It is usually called from JITted code.
- SGEN - Mono’s own generational garbage collector.
- SRE - System.Reflection.Emit
- vt - Valuetype
- vtype - Valuetype