Advogato blog for lupus

15 Oct 2007 - October 15, 2007

Memory savings with magic trampolines in Mono Mono is a JIT compiler and as such it compiles a method only when needed: the moment the execution flow requires the method to execute. This mode of execution greatly improves startup time of applications and is implemented with a simple trick: when a method call is compiled, the generated native code can't transfer execution to the method's native code address, because it hasn't been compiled yet. Instead it will go through a magic...
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