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Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve
An SSD in your build machine would also be worth trying. $100 gets you a decent one these days.
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Most teams have a hard time shelling out $100 because funding can be hard to come by!
I have a 32 giger in my laptop and running win7 on it, it boots in 3s. However, it is impractical because of the price, even for just a small one. Thankfully I have a second hard disk bay in my laptop.
I decent hard disk should be able to provide sufficient speed for a lengthy compile. Getting an SSD becomes impractical, because, for example, my laptop has a very low rating because the processor gives me a 3.1 but the ssd gives me 7
Just get a decent machine, with preferable an i3 or i5 (or i7 if you are lucky to find one cheap).
While this is kinda off topic, C++ is known for large build times, and I want new code to update on the system on bootup every match. For that, I wrote a build script that just automatically builds the code. It takes 5 mins so it isn't too bad and the program is automatically launched after the build and if the build fails, the last successful build is run and the errors are logged!