NGen for partial trust application

Question

I have a .Net 4.0 application that I need to improve the performance of code running in a partial trust environment. Specifically, I would like to eliminate the need to JIT at runtime. Normally this is accomplished using NGEN (http://http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t9t5wcf(v=vs.100).aspx) but this doesn't work for assemblies running in partial trust. Do I have any other options?

Native images that are generated with Ngen.exe can no longer be loaded into 
applications that are running in partial trust.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '12 at 12:24

What I ended up doing was performing the JIT at runtime via the PrepareMethod method. Instead of doing this inside of the untrusted application, I did it in the fully trusted portion of the app before the type was sent into the partially trusted sandbox to run. I used a mechanism similar to the one found on Liran Chen's blog here:

public static void PreJITMethods(Assembly assembly)
{
    Type[] types = assembly.GetTypes();
    foreach (Type curType in types)
    {
        MethodInfo[] methods = curType.GetMethods(
            BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly |
            BindingFlags.NonPublic |
            BindingFlags.Public |
            BindingFlags.Instance |
            BindingFlags.Static);

        foreach (MethodInfo curMethod in methods)
        {
            if (curMethod.IsAbstract || curMethod.ContainsGenericParameters)
                continue;

            RuntimeHelpers.PrepareMethod(curMethod.MethodHandle);
        }
    }
}

NGen for partial trust application

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