JIT, NGen, and other Managed Code Generation Stuff

One of the topics we often get questions on is about when it makes sense to invest the extra effort to pre-compile assemblies via NGen instead of simply relying on the JIT compiler to generate native code on the fly at application runtime. I thought I...

This is the first blog post from the code generation feature team working on the Common Language Runtime (CLR). We're the group of individuals that make it possible to generate native code for all binaries that run on top of the Microsoft .NET Framework...