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EF6 - NGen to Improve Load Time

Improving Entity Framework load times with NGEN...Beginning with Entity Framework 6, all EF components are contained within the ...EntityFramework.dll... and are no longer divided between various .NET Framework components. Therefore, the EF DLL is not optimized for the JIT (Just in Time) of the computer where it is being run, just as .NET is....We can improve this by running the ...Ngen.exe... command, which pre-compiles the DLL and eliminates this process while loading the DLL. This way, the ch...

EF6 - NGen to Improve Performance

Improving Entity Framework performance with NGen...In another post, I introduced very quickly about ...NGen..., which serves to pre-compile an application's assemblies, doing the work of JIT (Just in Time Compiler) in advance....Just to remind you a little, the figure below shows the process of running an application in .NET:...In a natural process of development in .NET, what happens is basically what is in the figure above, you write your code, compile it, and then execute it. But in execution...