X86

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Mono’s main developers use x86 systems and its the most tuned version, currently it supports:

Linux.
Windows.
BSD (Requires a modern version for proper thread support).
Solaris/x86

Mono on x86 supports both Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation as well as Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation, the later produces Position Independent Code.

X86 Specific Optimizations

Thread local storage (TLS): on systems that support TLS, Mono is able to take advantage of it.
x86 peephole optimizations.
Instruction selector is able to pick best instructions on x86.