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Burst menu reference

In the Editor, use the settings in the Burst menu to control how Burst works. To access this menu, go to Jobs > Burst. The following settings are available:

Setting	Function
Enable Compilation	Enable this setting to activate Burst compilation. When you enable this setting, Burst compiles jobs and Burst custom delegates that you tag with the attribute [BurstCompile].
Enable Safety Checks	Choose what safety checks Burst should use. For more information see the Enable Safety Checks setting section of this documentation.
Off	Disable safety checks across all Burst jobs and function-pointers. Only use this setting if you want more realistic profiling results from in-Editor captures. When you reload the Editor, this setting always resets to On.
On	Enable safety checks on code that uses collection containers (e.g NativeArray<T>). Checks include job data dependency and container indexes out of bounds. This is the default setting.
Force On	Force safety checks on even for jobs and function-pointers that have DisableSafetyChecks = true. Use this setting to rule out any problems that safety checks might have caught.
Synchronous Compilation	Enable this setting to compile Burst synchronously. For more information, see Synchronous compilation.
Native Debug Mode Compilation	Enable this setting to deactivate optimizations on all code that Burst compiles. This makes it easier to debug via a native debugger. For more information, see Native Debugging tools.
Show Timings	Enable this setting to log the time it takes to JIT compile a job in the Editor and display it in the Console. For more information see the Show Timings setting section of this documentation.
Open Inspector	Opens the Burst Inspector window.

Enable Safety Checks setting

To disable Burst's safety check code, use DisableSafetyChecks. This results in faster code generation, however make sure that you use containers in a safe fashion.

To disable safety checks on a job or function-pointer set DisableSafetyChecks to true:

[BurstCompile(DisableSafetyChecks = true)]
public struct MyJob : IJob
{
    // ...
}

Burst ignores code marked explicitly with DisableSafetyChecks = true when it safety checks your code if you set Enable Safety Checks to On in the Editor. Select Force On to make Burst to safety check all code, including code marked with DisableSafetyChecks = true.

Show Timings setting

When you enable the Show Timings setting, Unity logs an output in the Console window for each library of entry points that Burst compiles. Burst batches the compilation into units of methods-per-assembly, and groups multiple entry-points together in a single compilation task. This output is useful if you want to report outliers in compilation to the Burst compiler team (via the Burst forum).

Unity splits Burst's output into the following major sections:

• Method discovery (where Burst works out what it needs to compile)
• Front end (where Burst turns C# IL into an LLVM IR module)
• Middle end (where Burst specializes, optimizes, and cleans up the module)
• Back-end (where Burst turns the LLVM IR module into a native DLL)

The compile time in the front end and optimizer is linear to the amount operations that it needs to compile. More functions and more instructions means a longer compile time. The more generic functions you have, the higher the front end performance timings, because generic resolutions have non-zero costs.

The compile time in the back-end scales with the number of entry-points in the module. This is because each entry point is in its own native object file.

If the optimizer takes a significant amount of time, use [BurstCompile(OptimizeFor = OptimizeFor.FastCompilation)] which reduces the optimizations that Burst does, but compiles things much faster. Profile the job before and after to make sure that this tradeoff is right for that entry-point.