The mono team has developed a new compilation engine, that is easy to port to different platforms. This new engine also provides a solid framework for code optimization and includes a code pre-compiler to reduce startup time.
Platform | Interpreter | Jitter (faster) |
Windows | Yes | Yes |
MacOS X | Yes | No |
FreeBSD | Yes | Yes |
Linux (X86) | Yes | Yes |
Linux (PPC) | Yes | No |
Linux (S390) | Yes | No |
There is on-going work to support Aqua on MacOS X.