How to improve link performance for a large C++ application in VS2005

Question

We have fairly large C++ application which is composed of about 60 projects in Visual Studio 2005. It currently takes 7 minutes to link in Release mode and I would like to t

Answer 1

Take a look at Incredibuild by Xoreax. Its distributed compilation dramatically reduced our full build/link times from around 40 minutes to 8 minutes.

Additionally, this product has a feature they call Incredilink which should help you get incremental links working even with statically linked libraries.