2003-11-26 Zoltan Varga <vargaz@freemail.hu>

[mono.git] / docs / mini-doc.txt

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        Mini is a new compilation engine for the Mono runtime.  The
        new engine is designed to bring new code generation
-       optimizations, portability and precompilation. 
+       optimizations, portability and pre-compilation. 
 
        In this document we describe the design decisions and the
        architecture of the new compilation engine. 
 
 * Introduction
 
+       Mono is a Open Source implementation of the .NET Framework: it
+       is made up of a runtime engine that implements the ECMA Common
+       Language Infrastructure (CLI), a set of compilers that target
+       the CLI and a large collection of class libraries.
+
+       This article discusses the new code generation facilities that
+       have been added to the Mono runtime.  
+
        First we discuss the overall architecture of the Mono runtime,
        and how code generation fits into it; Then we discuss the
        development and basic architecture of our first JIT compiler
@@ -119,7 +127,7 @@
         inferred. 
 
        At this point the JIT would pass the constructed forest of
-       trees to the architecture-dependant JIT compiler.  
+       trees to the architecture-dependent JIT compiler.  
 
        The architecture dependent code then performed register
        allocation (optionally using linear scan allocation for
@@ -496,7 +504,7 @@
        The difference is on the set of optimizations that are turned
        on for each mode: Just-in-Time compilation should be as fast
        as possible, while Ahead-of-Time compilation can take as long
-       as required, because this is not done at a time criticial
+       as required, because this is not done at a time critical
        time. 
 
        With AOT compilation, we can afford to turn all of the
@@ -509,7 +517,7 @@
        assembler, which generates a loadable module.
 
        At execution time, when an assembly is loaded from the disk,
-       the runtime engine will probe for the existance of a
+       the runtime engine will probe for the existence of a
        pre-compiled image.  If the pre-compiled image exists, then it
        is loaded, and the method invocations are resolved to the code
        contained in the loaded module.
@@ -584,7 +592,7 @@
 
         2) liveness information for the variables
 
-        3) (optionally) loop info to favour variables that are used in
+        3) (optionally) loop info to favor variables that are used in
         inner loops.
 
        During instruction selection phase, symbolic registers are
@@ -597,19 +605,6 @@
        registers, fixed registers and clobbered registers by each
        operation.
 
-
-----------
-* Bootstrap 
-
-       The Mini bootstrap parses the arguments passed on the command
-       line, and initializes the JIT runtime. Each time the
-       mini_init() routine is invoked, a new Application Domain will
-       be returned.
-
-* Signal handlers
-
-       mono_runtime_install_handlers
-
 * BURG Code Generator Generator
 
        monoburg was written by Dietmar Maurer. It is based on the