[prefect42]

In Microsoft-Land, I find that every time we force ourselves to upgrade to the latest compiler (really entire IDE, Visual Studio) then everyone also needs to upgrade their machines. Both the IDE and the C++ compiler run dog slow on "older hardware". We're talking new-ish microarchitecture, faster RAM, and SSDs, to keep things sane. This is just one anecdotal use case of course.

Though I'm curious as to what you mean by "unbearably slow", and what your toolchain is.

[mrich]

I have found the latest update (VS 2015), were Microsoft significantly invested in the compiler after years of stagnation, to bring better compile speed in addition to standards support. There were also quite some bugs in the codegen, but it seems those are never avoided when working on a C++ compiler.

I find the IDE to still be sufficiently fast after disabling some things like Git integration and codelens.