Acronym Glossary

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Please note that some terms like JIT and GC are generic enough to apply to many programming language environments and runtimes.

CLR: Common Language Runtime
IL: Intermediate Language
EE: Execution Engine
JIT: Just-in-time compiler
GC: Garbage Collector
OOM: Out of memory
STA: Single-threaded apartment
MTA: Multi-threaded apartment