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

Get a quicker computer with multiple processors and enable parallel builds (this might be on by default). To allow the greatest amount of parallism, make sure your project dependencies are correct and you haven't got unnecessary dependencies.