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1.3.1. Preserving Results and Enabling Teamwork
Conversely, if you cannot meet timing on a portion of your design, you can partition that portion and prevent it from recompiling if an unrelated part of the design is changed. This feature, known as incremental compilation, can reduce the Fitter runtimes by up to 70% if the design is partitioned, such that only small portions require recompilation at any one time.
When you use incremental compilation, you can apply design optimization options to individual design partitions and preserve performance in other partitions by leaving them untouched. Many optimization techniques often result in longer compilation times, but by applying them only on specific partitions, you can reduce this impact and complete iterations more quickly.
In addition, by physically floorplanning your partitions with Logic Lock (Standard) regions, you can enable team-based flows and allow multiple people to work on different portions of the design.