Assembler's bitstream generation time in partial reconfiguration flow

Thanks for the reply @RichardTanSY_Altera .
In fact, I wasn't too surprised. I've noticed that even if I had small number of PR regions(let's say 5), I did observe slightly longer full bitstream generation time. So if the number increases, I would expect that there's a chance that the full bitstream generation time increases too.

I disabled the generation of .rbf files, but based on the date that files are generated, it takes a long time to generate a .sof file. Also, note that 9 min is just the time to generate .sof file. (I am not sure what exactly happens underneath the "quartus_asm" command, but it seems like .sof file is generated and then .pmsf file is used to generate .rbf file. Somehow it takes long time to generate .sof file at the first place.)

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