Just discovered this Visual Studio 2010 add in (vsspeedster)
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I've only been playing with it for a day or so, but thus far, I am very impressed. vsspeedster link I've watched Visual Studio when compiling - Windows 7 64 Bit ICore3 Dual Core, so Windows gives me four cores, per se. Two of them are mostly idle with this parallel build turned off, even though VS is set to use all 4 via Tools/Options. Build via this new menu button, and all four cpus average 80-90% usage while compiling. The result? I have a solution with 187 projects that I compile regularly (I know, I know) but it took the compilation time from around four minutes down to approximately 22 seconds! Plan to download the source and rebuild, and use your own compiled assemblies. People bitched it didn't work, but compiling the source (freely available, so I could change verbosity, etc.) is easy to do - all required files are included in the zip of source. I do not recommend toggling it on/off without first restarting your Visual Studio session. As long as you reboot when toggling, it seems quite stable. I'm impressed so far and no hangs ups if no toggling. If you think VS2010 compiles too slow, give it a whirl. Post your results - it's saving me minutes per compile! (and no, I am not affiliated with the project linked above)
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I've only been playing with it for a day or so, but thus far, I am very impressed. vsspeedster link I've watched Visual Studio when compiling - Windows 7 64 Bit ICore3 Dual Core, so Windows gives me four cores, per se. Two of them are mostly idle with this parallel build turned off, even though VS is set to use all 4 via Tools/Options. Build via this new menu button, and all four cpus average 80-90% usage while compiling. The result? I have a solution with 187 projects that I compile regularly (I know, I know) but it took the compilation time from around four minutes down to approximately 22 seconds! Plan to download the source and rebuild, and use your own compiled assemblies. People bitched it didn't work, but compiling the source (freely available, so I could change verbosity, etc.) is easy to do - all required files are included in the zip of source. I do not recommend toggling it on/off without first restarting your Visual Studio session. As long as you reboot when toggling, it seems quite stable. I'm impressed so far and no hangs ups if no toggling. If you think VS2010 compiles too slow, give it a whirl. Post your results - it's saving me minutes per compile! (and no, I am not affiliated with the project linked above)
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I've only been playing with it for a day or so, but thus far, I am very impressed. vsspeedster link I've watched Visual Studio when compiling - Windows 7 64 Bit ICore3 Dual Core, so Windows gives me four cores, per se. Two of them are mostly idle with this parallel build turned off, even though VS is set to use all 4 via Tools/Options. Build via this new menu button, and all four cpus average 80-90% usage while compiling. The result? I have a solution with 187 projects that I compile regularly (I know, I know) but it took the compilation time from around four minutes down to approximately 22 seconds! Plan to download the source and rebuild, and use your own compiled assemblies. People bitched it didn't work, but compiling the source (freely available, so I could change verbosity, etc.) is easy to do - all required files are included in the zip of source. I do not recommend toggling it on/off without first restarting your Visual Studio session. As long as you reboot when toggling, it seems quite stable. I'm impressed so far and no hangs ups if no toggling. If you think VS2010 compiles too slow, give it a whirl. Post your results - it's saving me minutes per compile! (and no, I am not affiliated with the project linked above)
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I've only been playing with it for a day or so, but thus far, I am very impressed. vsspeedster link I've watched Visual Studio when compiling - Windows 7 64 Bit ICore3 Dual Core, so Windows gives me four cores, per se. Two of them are mostly idle with this parallel build turned off, even though VS is set to use all 4 via Tools/Options. Build via this new menu button, and all four cpus average 80-90% usage while compiling. The result? I have a solution with 187 projects that I compile regularly (I know, I know) but it took the compilation time from around four minutes down to approximately 22 seconds! Plan to download the source and rebuild, and use your own compiled assemblies. People bitched it didn't work, but compiling the source (freely available, so I could change verbosity, etc.) is easy to do - all required files are included in the zip of source. I do not recommend toggling it on/off without first restarting your Visual Studio session. As long as you reboot when toggling, it seems quite stable. I'm impressed so far and no hangs ups if no toggling. If you think VS2010 compiles too slow, give it a whirl. Post your results - it's saving me minutes per compile! (and no, I am not affiliated with the project linked above)
I had to download and rebuild the source to get it to work on my machine, but it worked flawlessly to build my 4 biggest solutions, each having 2 to 25 projects. It cut my build time by about 80%, but I only spent a few minutes playing with it so far.
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I've only been playing with it for a day or so, but thus far, I am very impressed. vsspeedster link I've watched Visual Studio when compiling - Windows 7 64 Bit ICore3 Dual Core, so Windows gives me four cores, per se. Two of them are mostly idle with this parallel build turned off, even though VS is set to use all 4 via Tools/Options. Build via this new menu button, and all four cpus average 80-90% usage while compiling. The result? I have a solution with 187 projects that I compile regularly (I know, I know) but it took the compilation time from around four minutes down to approximately 22 seconds! Plan to download the source and rebuild, and use your own compiled assemblies. People bitched it didn't work, but compiling the source (freely available, so I could change verbosity, etc.) is easy to do - all required files are included in the zip of source. I do not recommend toggling it on/off without first restarting your Visual Studio session. As long as you reboot when toggling, it seems quite stable. I'm impressed so far and no hangs ups if no toggling. If you think VS2010 compiles too slow, give it a whirl. Post your results - it's saving me minutes per compile! (and no, I am not affiliated with the project linked above)
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I've only been playing with it for a day or so, but thus far, I am very impressed. vsspeedster link I've watched Visual Studio when compiling - Windows 7 64 Bit ICore3 Dual Core, so Windows gives me four cores, per se. Two of them are mostly idle with this parallel build turned off, even though VS is set to use all 4 via Tools/Options. Build via this new menu button, and all four cpus average 80-90% usage while compiling. The result? I have a solution with 187 projects that I compile regularly (I know, I know) but it took the compilation time from around four minutes down to approximately 22 seconds! Plan to download the source and rebuild, and use your own compiled assemblies. People bitched it didn't work, but compiling the source (freely available, so I could change verbosity, etc.) is easy to do - all required files are included in the zip of source. I do not recommend toggling it on/off without first restarting your Visual Studio session. As long as you reboot when toggling, it seems quite stable. I'm impressed so far and no hangs ups if no toggling. If you think VS2010 compiles too slow, give it a whirl. Post your results - it's saving me minutes per compile! (and no, I am not affiliated with the project linked above)
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Thanks for the heads up - I reposted it there.
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