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		taspeotis on March 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Got Your Web Browser in my Compiler 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 on April 1, 2014 [–]

This is highly unlikely, even if true (which I don't think it is).

taspeotis on April 1, 2014 | [–]

What is unlikely? It appears VS caches the MSBuild projects [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/6217800/242520

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