1. C++ Build Improvements
Sridhar Madhugiri
Principal Development Engineer

2. Agenda
Build Scenarios
Demo
Changes in VS 2015
Resources

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

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

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

6. Incremental link Reduces link time significantly
Enhanced in Visual Studio 2015

7. Demo

8. 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

9. Resources