You may find during application performance analysis that you can improve your application’s cold start time by using native images for both your application and its dependent assemblies. Native images will alleviate the need for your code to run through the CLR’s Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler at runtime. If you go down this route, you will want to ensure that the native images are actually being loaded and that the JIT process is being bypassed. In general, you will follow a checklist like this: Add ......