Why are UWP Master build times so slow?

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As I understand it, the “Master” build in a Unity UWP project is a Unity-specific thing that strips some stuff out for Store submission. On my projects, the Master build takes more than an order of magnitude longer than Debug or Release.

I know only have to do a Master build when I am submitting to the Store, but even so it wastes a lot of time - especially if you have to build multiple times to resolve submission issues.

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Master builds use .NET native, which precompiles down your managed code into native binaries. This is a requirement for submitting apps to the Windows Store.

Normally VS does that in the Release config, but our Release config doesn’t do it and instead Master one does.

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Ok. Thanks for the reply.