Microsoft announced that Build Insights is now integrated with Visual Studio 2022.
According to the announcement, Build Insights is currently available in Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 2, which provides key information about the development environment. Using the analytics created by Build Insights, developers will now have the ability to efficiently optimize build times , which is especially useful for larger projects such as AAA games.
Build Insights is a tool developed by Microsoft in 2019 to improve the efficiency of the C++ compilation process. Build Insights generates a report after analyzing the compilation process to explain the impact of various factors on the compilation time. For example, the report may indicate that certain functions and documents consume a large amount of compilation time, or that there may be parallelization problems at certain steps in the compilation process. .
In addition, Build Insights can also help developers deeply understand C++ code. By showing the interaction of various parts of the code during the compilation process and the impact of these code interactions on the total compilation time, developers can use this information to find out the optimal The compilation process method improves development efficiency while maintaining code quality.
Now that Build Insights is integrated into Visual Studio 2022, developers can capture ETL traces with just a click of the mouse, and can also use the Include File and Include Tree inspection views to analyze and optimize #include usage.