[Mono-list] Is there a mechanism to precompile a method?

[Carl R. Witty]

Holger Arnold <harnold@gmx.de> writes:

> Some applications require a deterministic method execution time, at least for 
> certain methods. Is there a mechanism in the Mono JIT to compile a method 
> including all methods it depends on (i.e. all methods that could possibly be 
> called by this method)? 
> 
> If not, how could such a mechanism be implemented? If someone guides me a bit 
> I would like to implement this.

I think the garbage collector is a more worrisome problem for writing
real-time applications with Mono.  There's a lot of research on
real-time garbage collectors, but I've never used one.

Carl Witty