I live and breathe C++ full time for more than a decade now. Compiling C++ _has_ always been pain point and big efficiency killer. Especially if you come from o

I live and breathe C++ full time for more than a decade now. Compiling C++ _has_ always been pain point and big efficiency killer. Especially if you come from other languages (I don't but I enjoy learning other stuff too). It doesn't matter if you're directly writing your own template code or not because you're always gonna pull it in indirectly, even in most simplistic and inrealistic case when your sole dependency is C++ runtime library. OTOH debugging C++ build times is no more than recompiling your code with -ftime-trace and inspecting it with ninjatracing, which btw is a great tool. However, getting the data as you see is not the real challenge here but in how to use this data to optimize your build pipeline while keeping the functionality and not introducing more technical burden. That is very difficult and for many projects questionable if the benefits will outweigh the total cost invested in it.