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Improve pre-process template performance

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Description

Most of the files in template content doesn't have any operations but still are being processed each time the template is run.

Suggestion:
- pre-process the template on installing time to detect which files have operations defined and cache them
- those files to be processed each time the template is executed
- the other files will be processed in `copyOnly` mode

Note: since in folder based templates the files may be changed, rescan should be done if the timestamp on the file has changed.

Tasks:
- [ ] https://github.com/dotnet/templating/issues/5788

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