C++ Build Improvements Sridhar Madhugiri Principal Development Engineer

Agenda Build Scenarios Demo Changes in VS 2015 Resources

Developer scenario BUILD DEBUG EDIT ~20 times a day Primary scenario

Developer scenario Incremental build Linker dominates build time LINK DEBUG EDIT Incremental build Linker dominates build time

Clean build scenario Build lab Front End dominates build time Secondary scenario

Incremental link Reduces link time significantly Enhanced in Visual Studio 2015

Demo

Features in VS 2015 Incremental link PDB Link time code gen (LTCG) Static lib PDB Distributed PDB Link time code gen (LTCG) Incremental LTCG Compiler Template processing Edit and Continue X86 & X64

Resources http://www.visualstudio.com http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog