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I think Bruce already knows plenty about making builds fast ;-) The linked article demonstrates some ignorance as well by noting that command-line MSBuild buil

by ygra 13y ago

I think Bruce already knows plenty about making builds fast ;-) The linked article demonstrates some ignorance as well by noting that command-line MSBuild builds are slower than from Visual Studio. I'd hazard a guess and say that they didn't find the /m option.

taspeotis 13y ago
To my knowledge VS caches the MSBuild projects (.targets etc) while it's running. So it's possible that, even if VS and MSBuild have the same degree of parallelism, not having to parse the MSBuild XML gives VS an edge.
- Locke1689 13y ago
  This is highly unlikely, even if true (which I don't think it is).
  - taspeotis 13y ago
    What is unlikely? It appears VS caches the MSBuild projects [1]. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/6217800/242520 http://stackoverflow.com/a/6217800/242520
bhouston 13y ago
I wrote the linked article, so I take responsibility for any ignorance. It was some time ago (three years) so it maybe that we were not using the /m option at the time with MSBuild.