Compile times can be affected by a large number of factors.  Obviously the number of lines of code can be a factor, but the way the code is laid out and compiler options can have a massive effect.  I've taken projects that took many minutes to compile and speed compile times up by a factor of 10 or more, just through proper use of things like pre-compiled headers and forward declarations (sorry if that's too much geek speak ).

I remember hearing that Windows NT took 19 hours to compile.  Hopefully Stardock aren't approaching that yet...

I guess this

won't work at Stardock anymore.

Sweet. Glad to see that was a worthwhile investment for you...now if the Incredibuild people were smart they'd link this page in their testimonials

I'm kinda surprised there isn't more software designed to compile on a second machine.   

That would be nice. Most computers are much stronger than needed today. Solitaire can be run even on much worse hardware. At least you have the possibility of participating on a computation of the probability of the existence of little green men (SETI), or lend your CPU time to cancer research. 

Yeah, isn't it awesome   Been using it for about 18 months and loving every single minute of it!!  Just watch out for someones HD filling up.   I've pulled my hair out a couple times trying to figure out why builds were working intermittently only to realize they always failed on the same machine.   Guess what THAT problem was

The Symantec C++ compiler did that 10+ years ago, GNU does it, only MS has issues with it. Heck, you need a special option for Visual Studio to even make it use multiple cores!!!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385193.aspx

Ralph