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Not particularly, it reduces it by maybe 1 minute but there is still a significant difference between the performance in this case and without antivirus installed.
I’m not clear why but I think antivirus must have to check files even just to determine that it’s in an excluded directory. What really surprised me was that even disabling all shields didn’t eliminate the slowdown.
We figured it up to somewhere around 150ms per file write delay which would probably insignificant except that it adds up so