Mono and .NET Technologies
After that short introduction to the Mono framework, it's time to have a closer look at the technical details.
Mono consists of various components:
C# compiler: The C# compiler is the core component of Mono. The compiler is self-hosting, which means that it's possible to compile the C# compiler under itself. This is a major milestone in the evolution and development of Mono because the code has become far more independent.
Common language runtime just-in-time compiler: A just-in-time (JIT) compiler translates intermediate code to optimized platform-dependent code. In contrast to an interpreter, a JIT compiler creates a binary image of the program. Future versions of Mono will provide an AOT compiler as well.
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