ngen Questions

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I'm running perfview (just default collection) on a production system where the CPU is spiking to 100% for a couple of minutes strait. I get some useful results however i also get a bunch of BROKEN...
Portemonnaie asked 21/3, 2016 at 18:21

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I did Ngen on a C# executable. It was succesful, but I cannot figure out where the generated file is in my PC. MSDN says it should be in native image cache, still not able to figure out where it is...
Salicylate asked 14/4, 2011 at 1:23

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How do I determine if the Native images are being used without the Loader verifing the signature of the assembly at runtime, or even using the GAC'ed assembly? I have complex system that we're exp...
Mcquoid asked 17/2, 2010 at 16:25

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mscorsvw.exe (a.NET optimization that precompiles assemblies) is taking up a substantial percentage of my CPU - 50-100%. This article (and many others) say that ngen.exe executequeueditems F...
Ovule asked 24/6, 2011 at 15:5

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I have been running "ngen install ..." on an application while it is being developed. But haven't run "ngen uninstall ..." on some of the versions / scenarios (debug etc.) befor...
Bale asked 15/10, 2013 at 14:58

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Has anybody here ever used ngen? Where? why? Was there any performance improvement? when and where does it make sense to use it?
Chalcedony asked 4/4, 2009 at 12:20

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I am investigating a crashing program but cannot load symbols for native image DLLs in Visual Studio 2013. The application is 32-bit and uses .NET 4.0.30319. I confirmed this by checking what versi...
Andrea asked 11/2, 2016 at 14:28

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After doing a lot of search, I still couldn't get the solution for the question. I have a mdmp file. The call stack shows it is using mscorlib.ni.dll. So to get the function information, I need to...
Florous asked 21/5, 2014 at 6:45

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Are Ngen and RyuJIT two completely unrelated things under .NET 4.6 (especially with different optimization techniques and algorithms)? What produces fastest (better optimized) x64 native code if w...
Cardon asked 11/11, 2015 at 9:22

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So, from what I understand, it does take an executable/dll file written in MSIL and does the JIT-job: convert MSIL code to native machine code. Right? So ran the ngen to generate a native image of ...
Tymbal asked 6/4, 2015 at 0:57

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AFAIK, ngen turns MSIL into native code (also reffered to as pre-JIT), however I never payed too much attention at it's startup performance impact. Ngen'd applications still require the .NET base c...
Sketch asked 16/3, 2010 at 11:5

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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 ...
Twink asked 22/12, 2008 at 9:19

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After much research I still cannot find the answer to this question. So can one NGEN one's ASP.NET MVC3 application which is deployed in Azure Websites, in a 32bit "Basic" or "Standard" instance? ...
Trauma asked 14/7, 2014 at 12:47

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The title says it all. I was hoping somebody could explain to me what .NET Native brings to the table that we didn't already have with Ngen.exe.
Braithwaite asked 7/4, 2014 at 8:23

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We are currently using MVC3, .NET4.5, EF6.1, MSSQL2008(dev), SQL Azure(Test and Live). Our application is quite complicated and we are encountering significant warm up lags, around 30 secs, after a...
Weasel asked 2/5, 2014 at 11:32

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We have a Windows2008R2 RemoteAPP .NET 4.5 application NGEN-ed on the RDS server, with approx. 300 concurrent users for the 3-host NLB cluster. The application is under active development and the ...
Ardellaardelle asked 21/11, 2012 at 15:54

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I want to know the benefit of pre-JIT compilation (ngen.exe). What is the role of the Native Image Generator (NGen) process and why is it required? Please provide an example.
Stonedeaf asked 16/12, 2013 at 20:34

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How can you determine whether a particular .Net assembly has already been ngen'd or not? I need to check from code. Even invoking the command-line would be fine. At the moment I can't see any way o...
Unhesitating asked 30/1, 2010 at 9:18

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I want to compile a C# program using ngen command line for a special purpose. So I create a console application in VS2010 and named it ngentest. A file by name ngentest.vshost.exe is created in vs2...
Balmung asked 22/11, 2013 at 11:48

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Dalvik VM has been the default VM since first Android versions. Google released the new ART runtime in KitKat 4.4. AndroidPolice says it would increase app performance and battery life. Unf...
Corolla asked 7/11, 2013 at 22:20

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I would like to execute nGen at the end of my installation simply to improve the perceived performance of the first startup of my application. How could I do that? Is there are some best practices?...
Survance asked 6/2, 2009 at 21:45

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What is the format (data layout) of *.ni.dll.aux files found in C:\Windows\assembly\NativeImages_v4.0.30319_64? I understand that these are auxiliary files generated by ngen.exe. What data do they ...
Mehitable asked 16/7, 2013 at 16:1

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Directly related to this question. Given a managed assembly for Windows Phone, how can I generate native code for it for an ARM CPU? I don't have a Windows/ARM device (neither tablet nor a phone)....
Patriarchy asked 27/6, 2013 at 14:21

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What is the difference between the MethodImplAttribute with the option MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining and the TargetedPatchingOptOut? When I searched on Google everybody seems to says that b...
Concomitance asked 10/3, 2013 at 4:47

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As explained in another question, Ngen is usually only allowed to inline methods across assemblies if the method has the TargetedPatchingOptOutAttribute set. But is this also true for hard bound a...
Garvey asked 18/2, 2013 at 13:37

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