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How does the Razor Compilation System work at runtime and what optimizations exist?

Expert .NET Core
Quick Answer In production, Razor views are precompiled by Roslyn at publish time รขโ‚ฌโ€ no .cshtml files needed. In development, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Razor.RuntimeCompilation watches files and recompiles on change. The generated RazorPage class has an Execute() method that writes HTML chunks to a TextWriter using string pooling to minimize allocations.

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Razor parses .cshtml into C# classes, compiles them into temporary assemblies, and caches them. Runtime compilation is slower but flexible; precompiled views dramatically improve startup performance and CPU usage.

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