We can build much smaller Mono runtime for .NET Core purposes by simply removing code we don't need in this configuration. We did a few easy initial steps but we can go much further.

This list is not comprehensive but parts like

• Culture Data
• Any PAL related code
• Unused icalls

Setup Actions to build heapothesys packages

The compiler should analyze the function body to detect statements that are completely unreachable because of return and throw statements that cause a function to exit.

Consider the following example:

function main(...arguments)
    return 0
    print('Hello, world!')

In the above example, the print statement is never executed because main() is terminated before it can reach t