Performance
Monitor file system changes to minimize directory access
This feature optimizes directory access to allow faster builds in scenarios involving input files located on network folders and/or input file trees containing a large number of folders. This feature is available only on 32-bit versions of MS Windows.Write output to disk in the background
When this option is enabled, output files are physically written to disk in the background, which may provide improve task scheduling speed in some environments. It is recommended to benchmark performance with and without this option before leaving it enabled.Enable minimal directory synchronization
This feature can be used to speed up directory synchronization in Visual Studio builds. When this feature is enabled, IncrediBuild will only perform source-file timestamp checking once, except for files and folders that have been explicitly marked as being outputs of other tasks in the build (for example, a file generated by a Visual Studio custom build step that "generates" source files will be re-sent to remote Agents once it has been modified - as long as that file has been explicitly declared as an output file). This mode may significantly improve build times in environments that store source files in slow file systems (for example, in version-control databases or remote file servers).Important - When using minimal directory synchronization, all tasks that generate files used as input by other steps in the build must explicitly declare those files as output files. Not doing so may result in build errors or in older versions of these files being used in the build. MSVC's output file definition mechanism will be sufficient. For cases in which source files are generated using Post-Build/Pre-Link/Pre-Build steps (for which output files cannot be declared) or for other special cases, see the advanced Output File Definition Directives section.