From 243c011ea0de49ae321e48d890281189228ab700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yuval Tassa <tassa@google.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 03:39:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about performance and release builds.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 781460349
Change-Id: I7defa9bf31376afa31b32f26523e8ebd9da3fc0e
---
 doc/programming/index.rst | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/programming/index.rst b/doc/programming/index.rst
index 6486ab61..c31c7fbd 100644
--- a/doc/programming/index.rst
+++ b/doc/programming/index.rst
@@ -112,8 +112,11 @@ target directory.
 5. Select the directory: :shell:`cmake $PATH_TO_CLONED_REPO -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<my_install_dir>`
 #. After building, install with ``cmake --install .``
 
-When building on Windows, use Visual Studio 2019 or later and make sure Windows SDK version 10.0.22000 or later is
-installed (see :github:issue:`862` for more details).
+**Notes:**
+
+- When building on Windows, use Visual Studio 2019 or later and make sure Windows SDK version 10.0.22000 or later is
+  installed (see :github:issue:`862` for more details).
+- To optimize runtime performance build with ``-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release``
 
 .. tip::
    As a reference, a working build configuration can be found in MuJoCo's