[Mono-list] Native or Emulated

[Adrien Dessemond]

Hi,

>This may be a silly question but I was wondering, I'm trying to sell the
>idea of mono to my team because I'm very excited about it, is it right to
>say that c# apps running on mono under linux will run natively under linux
>or under a vm (i.e Emulated) ?


MSIL is a platform agnostic pseudocode that is always translated into 
native processor instructions either on the fly (Just In Time 
compilation), either by using ngen 
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t9t5wcf(VS.80).aspx 
another discussion is here 
http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2005/09/01/3512.aspx).