# Glossary

This is a glossary of terms/abbreviations used in the runtime source code
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-   AOT - Ahead of Time Compiler
-   EH - Exception Handling
-   GC - Garbage Collector
-   JIT - Just In Time Compiler
-   Boehm - The Boehm Conservative Garbage Collector
-   trampoline - A function implemented using hand written assembly code. It is usually called from JITted code.
-   SGEN - Mono's own generational garbage collector.
-   SRE - System.Reflection.Emit
-   vt - Valuetype
-   vtype - Valuetype
