How we ended up rewriting NuGet Restore in .NET 9 - .NET Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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This first push resulted in NuGet Restore times being cut in half, which was a reasonable stopping point for our work. However, along the way, we realized that a more extensive rewrite could improve performance by a factor of 5x or more.

Written from the perspective of several team members, this entry provides a deep dive into the internals of NuGet, as well as strategies to identify and address performance issues.

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[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

When an internal team at Microsoft—let’s call them TeamX—reached out to us because their NuGet Restore times had drastically increased to over 30 minutes

lol, 30 min restore, wtf

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