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| author | Geunsik Lim <leemgs@users.noreply.github.com> | 2016-07-21 19:23:30 +0900 |
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| committer | Jan Kotas <jkotas@microsoft.com> | 2016-07-21 03:23:30 -0700 |
| commit | 4ba6e7418e6a34ffa7b8ba91cb10e004d30d803f (patch) | |
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| parent | d12b41027de7db2ff3f690778f13ad0b12dc6ed8 (diff) | |
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Documentation: Add additional terminologies in the glossary.md (#6372)
It is a trivial patch. However, it will be helpful to developers that
learn the internals of CoreCLR via the source code and documents.
Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/project-docs/glossary.md b/Documentation/project-docs/glossary.md index 176da1da74..19609049a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/project-docs/glossary.md +++ b/Documentation/project-docs/glossary.md @@ -5,13 +5,18 @@ This glossary defines terms, both common and more niche, that are important to u As much as possible, we should link to the most authoritative and recent source of information for a term. That approach should be the most helpful for people who want to learn more about a topic. -* CLR: Common Language Runtime +* BOTR: Book Of The Runtime. +* CLR: Common Language Runtime. * COMPlus: An early name for the .NET platform, back when it was envisioned as a successor to the COM platform (hence, "COM+"). Used in various places in the CLR infrastructure, most prominently as a common prefix for the names of internal configuration settings. Note that this is different from the product that eventually ended up being named [COM+](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms685978.aspx). * COR: [Common Object Runtime](http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/mscorlibdll.aspx). The name of .NET before it was named .NET. * DAC: Data Access Component. An abstraction layer over the internal structures in the runtime. * EE: Execution Engine. +* GC: [Garbage Collector](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/botr/garbage-collection.md). +* JIT: [Just-in-Time](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/botr/ryujit-overview.md) compiler. RyuJIT is the code name for the next generation Just-in-Time(aka "JIT") for the .NET runtime. * LCG: Lightweight Code Generation. An early name for [dynamic methods](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/mscorlib/src/System/Reflection/Emit/DynamicMethod.cs). +* NGen: Native Image Generator. * PAL: [Platform Adaptation Layer](http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/03/04/rotor.html). Provides an abstraction layer between the runtime and the operating system +* PE: Portable Executable. * ProjectN: Codename for the first version of [.NET Native for UWP](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative.aspx). * ReadyToRun: A flavor of native images - command line switch of [crossgen](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/src/tools/crossgen/crossgen.cpp). We do plan to add docs as part of [#227](https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/227). * Redhawk: Codename for experimental minimal managed code runtime that evolved into [CoreRT](https://github.com/dotnet/corert/). |