All of the editing tools are tuned for desktop processors, and there's not amazing parallelism to be had with most compilations (and incremental compilations wo

All of the editing tools are tuned for desktop processors, and there's not amazing parallelism to be had with most compilations (and incremental compilations won't see them at all). I regularly run 'make -j32' on a machine, compilation of well-structured projects is embarrassingly parallel. Incremental compilation is a fair point, but may not always work in template-heavy codebases that are restricted to C++03 (no extern template).