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Copy-on-write performance and debugging
Learn about the performance findings from months of repo build testing and tips we learned along the way.
Repos that perform lots of additional copying to create microservice layouts as part of the build output also get a strong benefit. We ran into this problem on one machine that had run continuous CoW builds for weeks under a prerelease CoW-in-Win32 implementation, so we don’t expect this to appear in the wild very often. In the intervening months, consider integrating the CopyOnWrite SDK into your MSBuild repo and creating a Dev Drive partition on your development machine.
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