Does it help to use NGEN?

Is it better to use NGEN an ASP.NET application when we know it is not going to change much? Or is the JIT good enough?

The only reason I asked was because this article by Jeffrey Richter in 2002 says :

And, of course, Microsoft is working quite hard at improving the CLR and its JIT compiler so that it runs faster, produces more optimized code, and uses memory more efficiently. These improvements will take time. For developers that can't wait, the .NET Framework redistributable includes a utility called NGen.exe.

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I was looking into this tonight and came across the following:

The common language runtime cannot load images that you create with NGEN into the shared application domain. Because ASP.NET standard assemblies are shared and are then loaded into a shared application domain, you cannot use Ngen.exe to install them into the native image cache on the local computer. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331979

Not sure if this just refers to assemblies referenced from ASP.net app or the app itself?

answered 2009-05-28T21:59:19.563

Does it help to use NGEN?

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