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

I've had similar troubles linking large apps with Visual C++ before. In my case, I simply didn't have enough free RAM and excessive paging to disk was slowing the linking process to a halt. Doubling my RAM from 1GB to 2GB made a dramatic improvement. How much is your dev box running?