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by freikev 4640 days ago
NGen doesn't help too many folks with asp.net, since it just doesn't work. And for a class of x64 applications, NGen is a terrible solution because it takes so long to precompile the entire application. I'm going to put together a more detailed article for the Codegen blog regarding motivation, history, all that fun stuff...
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Quite true. I was involved into a project (ASP.NET/64bits) where the JIT compile times on startup seemed like I was compiling C++ code instead. :(