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Old 10-30-2007, 11:02 PM
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What is Ngen.exe in DotNet? What its use ?
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The Native Image Generator utility (Ngen.exe) allows you to run the JIT compiler on your assembly's MSIL and generate native machine code which is cached to disk. After the image is created .NET runtime will use the image to run the code rather than from the hard disk. Running Ngen.exe on an assembly potentially allows the assembly to load and execute faster, because it restores code
and data structures from the native image cache rather than generating them dynamically.
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Native images load faster than MSIL because JIT compilation and type-safety verification is eliminated.
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If you are sharing code between process Ngen.exe improves the performance
significantly. As Native image generated Windows PE file so a single DLL file can be shared across applications. By contrast JIT produced code are private to an assembly and can not be shared.
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- Native images enable code sharing between processes.

- Native images require more storage space and more time to generate.
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Startup time performance improves lot. We can get considerable gains when applications share component assemblies because after the first application has been started the shared components are already loaded for subsequent applications. If assemblies in an application must be loaded from the hard disk, does not benefit as much from native images because the hard disk access time shadows everything.
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Assemblies in GAC do not benefit from Native image generator as the loader performs extra validation on the strong named assemblies thus shadowing the benefits of Native Image Generator.
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If any of the assemblies change then Native image should also be updated.

You should have administrative privilege for running Ngen.exe.
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While this can fasten your application startup times as the code is statically compiled but it can be somewhat slower than the code generated dynamically by the JIT compiler.

So you need to compare how the whole application performance with Ngen.exe and with out it.
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Thank you vinoth...

You have posted lot of information about Ngen.exe...

But how to run that?
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