Yes. Large code base, large number of intemediary files and bin places. Compiling itself is an issue of course also but i'm already on a fairly high end i7 chip

Yes. Large code base, large number of intemediary files and bin places. Compiling itself is an issue of course also but i'm already on a fairly high end i7 chip with tri channel ddr. More cpus or faster cpus would be nice but I'll take a faster hard drive over processor speed any day.