The tools really aren't that bad. There are many common open source c projects, most notably the linux kernel, which can easily use all your cores and compile t

The tools really aren't that bad. There are many common open source c projects, most notably the linux kernel, which can easily use all your cores and compile tens of objects a second. Compiling crazy c++ codebases are painful for everyone, and in fact were a primary inspiration for the handful of people at Google who created Go, with a primary goal of fast compiles, at some reasonable expense to disk and run-time efficiency.