It's pretty cool to see .NET catching up with Mono on that front ;)
Fun fact, MonoTouch applications are built with a very similar pipeline, except that LLVM does the compilation in the end.
The steps 4 and 5 in the blog post map quite exactly to the Mono.Linker and the Mono.Tuner. Both tools are using a XML file format for whitelisting pieces of code that need to be included, that's useful if you're calling code with reflection at runtime which is not statically discoverable at build time.
Fun fact, MonoTouch applications are built with a very similar pipeline, except that LLVM does the compilation in the end.
The steps 4 and 5 in the blog post map quite exactly to the Mono.Linker and the Mono.Tuner. Both tools are using a XML file format for whitelisting pieces of code that need to be included, that's useful if you're calling code with reflection at runtime which is not statically discoverable at build time.