>Actually I want the tool chain developers spending their time making *me* more
>productive. They need to focus on compiler performance to the extent that faster compiles help my productivity.
>
>FWIW, the thing that's generated the biggest increase in build time for me in the
>last few years is link time code generation. It not only reduces the incremental
>nature of most builds (the compiler ends up doing most of the hard work when building
>the executable, and then having to do *all* of that work each time anything in the
>executable is touched), it also reduces the scope for parallelism in the build process.

Doubt that link time code generation hurt more than C
itself in terms of productivity.

C is a crappy language. Not expressive enough to reduce LOC.
Not precise enough that real stuff still have to be done in
assembly. Not safe. Doesn't interact well with tools.
Doesn't support design methodologies. The list goes on.

Have to live with C because that's required on current
project. But really dislike it.