[MathMonkeyMan]

Not sure why this was downvoted. It's true that ccache and build parallelization (e.g. icecream) can grease the wheels enough that builds are no longer a dev cycle bottleneck.

What the article is about, though, is changing the source code so that it is intrinsically faster to compile. At some point you say "this program isn't complicated, why does it take so long to compile?" Then you start looking at unnecessary includes, transitive includes, forward declarations, excessive inlining, etc.

[rjkaplan]

I'm guessing the comment was downvoted because the suggestions are mentioned in the first paragraph of the article...

> After trying a few stopgap solutions—like purchasing M1 Maxs for our team—build times gradually reverted to their original pace; Ccache and remote caching weren’t enough either.

[gpderetta]

Parallelization is not a stop gap solution. Is the only scalable one as C++ projects tend to grow to multimilion lines of code easily. And with distcc (or similar) you do not need to buy your developers beefy workstations (although you should!).