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Their "windows dev drive" setup addresses this. I haven't tested it myself but I saw a couple of inexpertly executed tests showing significant performance gains. I honestly have no idea if my compile times are quicker.


You can get benches from the horses mouth.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/

But the primary improvement comes from async A/V, not the file system.

ReFS offers other improvements such as CoW and instant file initialization which can benefit developers. From this standpoint, it is the correct choice over NTFS.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/dev-...




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