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A fresh build of a large C++ project taking 1 hour does not sound strange at all.

If that's an incremental build though (i.e. simply rebuilding after changing a few files), there's something very wrong.



FASTBuild has been a game changer for our team recently if you have extra hardware sitting around.

https://www.fastbuild.org/docs/home.html


Your org needs better distributed build caching if you can't get that number lower. All builds should be "incremental" with appropriate caching.


Not everyone in the world who compiles a C++ project is necessarily doing so for an "org"


It does if you have an even remotely reasonably specced development machine.




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