Introduction With the release of .NET 8, Microsoft takes a significant stride forward, introducing the native Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation for ASP.NET Core. This advancement not only enhances application performance but also simplifies the development process, marking a new era in the .NET ecosystem. The emergence of native AOT in .NET...

Understanding Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation in C#

A deep dive into Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation for optimized performance What is it? Traditionally, .NET languages like C# use Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation. In this process, the source code is initially compiled into Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code, a platform-agnostic code representation. Only when the code is executed does the JIT...