Question

I am working on a large (100s of assemblies) asp.net application and during development it can take a couple of minutes for the first page to load after a recompile.

I am told that much of the delay comes from JITing the assemblies and that this delay is proportional to the number (but not the size) of assemblies. I have not yet measured this.

We are working on architectural changes to improve the situation (combine assemblies, decouple applications) but I was wondering if there are any quick hit fixes that I can get by, for example, changing IIS settings in development or combining DLLs post-build.

We are using .net 3.5.

Any suggestions for me?

Answer 1

sheepish

Here’s a solution that I should’ve tried earlier: Disabling virus protection reduces the initial load time from about a minute to less than 8 seconds.