I have relatively simple application, but warm (second, etc.) start-up time is awful 3-5 seconds. Profiler (VS2010, CPU Sampling) shows that more than 80% of time is spent in Application.RunInternal (~40%) and XamlRader.LoadBaml (~40%) functions.
The root of the problem is that Window is created in non-default AppDomain. If I move Window creation to default AppDomain or give AppDomain unrestricted permission set everything is as fast as expected.
I'm testing on:
- Windows Seven x64
- .Net 4.0
- 4Gb RAM
- GeForce 9800GT 1Gb.
I'm creating AppDomain this way
var permissionSet = new PermissionSet(null);
permissionSet.AddPermission(new SecurityPermission(SecurityPermissionFlag.Execution | SecurityPermissionFlag.SerializationFormatter | SecurityPermissionFlag.UnmanagedCode));
permissionSet.AddPermission(new ReflectionPermission(PermissionState.Unrestricted));
permissionSet.AddPermission(new UIPermission(PermissionState.Unrestricted));
permissionSet.AddPermission(new MediaPermission(PermissionState.Unrestricted));
permissionSet.AddPermission(new FileDialogPermission(PermissionState.Unrestricted));
var appDomainSetup =
new AppDomainSetup
{
ApplicationBase = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ApplicationBase,
ApplicationName = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.ApplicationName,
DisallowApplicationBaseProbing = false,
DisallowBindingRedirects = true,
DisallowCodeDownload = true,
DisallowPublisherPolicy = true,
LoaderOptimization = LoaderOptimization.MultiDomainHost
};
_appDomain =
AppDomain.CreateDomain(
name,
null,
appDomainSetup,
permissionSet,
new[]
{
// a few types I need
typeof(...).Assembly.Evidence.GetHostEvidence<StrongName>(),
});
The behavior remains the same even if I strip down XAML to empty window
<Window
x:Class="Rosmurta.Extensibility.WpfUI.RosmurtaWindow"
x:ClassModifier="internal"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Test"
Height="480"
Width="640"
WindowStyle="SingleBorderWindow">
<Grid>
</Grid>
</Window>
Not too much to parse by XamlRader.LoadBaml, but it spends more than 30% of startup time event for empty window.
I've tried (and it did not help)
- Adding <generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/> to App.config.
- Adding [LoaderOptimization(LoaderOptimization.MultiDomainHost)] atribute to Main method.
- Adding signatures to all assemblies.
What else can be done?