Could someone please tell me if using one of the new dual-core CPUs will
speed up the process of compiling a program using Visual Studio 2005?
I have a solution that includes about 10 projects on it and it takes a long
time to compile. My biggest issue is that I am the kind of person that
likes to compile the project very often to make sure that everything is OK
and waiting a long time for VS 2005 to compile the project is very
frustrating.
I am sure that a dual-core processor will be better than a single core
processor in overall performance but I am not sure if the VS 2005 compiling
process is a multithreaded process or if it's a sequential process. If
compiling is not a multithreaded process then I would not expect to see a
huge cut in the time that it takes to compile a project and it may not be
worth investing on a new computer at this time.
Does anyone have any experience on this issue?
Thanks.