Is CLR loaded and initialized everytime,when a new managed application is loaded?

Question

Is CLR loaded and initialized everytime, when a new managed application is loaded and there is a managed application already present?

e.g. If on my machine, applicat

Answer 1

Yes, and assemblies are JIT compiled, heaps are allocated and so forth. The Windows image loader will help a bit but in general the CLR overhead is per process.