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