[Mono-list] Announce: A .NET assembly -> native code generation tool (ala ngen for MONO)

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello!

> Sure, but I also has some advantages. For example it works with
> exceptions and garbage collection. I have no idea how we can include GC
> support with the gcc approach.

I thought of another optimization that can be done best with the JIT (or
copying large parts of the JIT to the gcc-based ngen): arrays bounds
check elimination.

Anyways, wanted to share this because I could not sleep last night ;-)

Miguel.