* MCS: The Ximian C# compiler
- The Mono C# compiler is considered feature complete at this
- point and relatively mature. MCS is able to compile itself
- and many more C# programs (there is a test suite included that
- you can use). It is routinely used to compile Mono, roughly
- half a million lines of C# code.
+ The Mono C# compiler is considered feature C# 1.0 complete at
+ this point and mature. MCS is able to compile itself and many
+ more C# programs (there is a test suite included that you can
+ use). It is routinely used to compile Mono, roughly 1.7
+ million lines of C# code.
+
+ The compiler is also fairly fast. On a IBM ThinkPad t40 it
+ compiles 18,000 lines of C# code per second.
+
+ Work on C# 2.0 has started: some pieces of it are available on
+ the standard compiler with the -2 switch (iterators, method
+ conversions) and some others are available on the `gmcs'
+ branch on CVS (generics)
** Obtaining MCS