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One of (many) other ways to speed up C++ (or C) builds is to use multi-processing in your make file - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/414714/compiling-with-g-... - I typically get about a 20% speed up, but obviously YMMV.



This post here recommends using ninja, which does this automatically.


Personally I like Tup, which also does this, and has no dependencies, but it has some quirks.


Careful, this can break certain makefiles that are not written to take this into account.


Perhaps post a link to this problem?


You should be able to find a fair amount of published literature about it if you search "make parallel build issues".




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