[Mono-list] Cross-platform apps question

[Jonathan Pryor]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 10:24 PM, Kiel Wadner <wadnerk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Microsoft has a utility called NGEN.exe that compiles byte code down  
> to machine code. I'm not aware of something similar for Linux world.

Behold Mono AOT support -- the equivalent of NGEN:

     http://mono-project.com/AOT

We even go one better with Full AOT, in which the JIT isn't used at  
all at runtime (which .NET doesn't support, and is useful for  
platforms like the iPhone and Wii).

  - Jon