title: Does it help to use NGEN?
body: <p>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?</p>
  
  <p>The only reason I asked was because <a href="http://www.codeguru.com/columns/experts/article.php/c4651" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this article by Jeffrey Richter</a> in 2002 says :</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>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.</p>
  </blockquote>