I have reported this before, but it seems to me that the last few months, something has happened to the C::B nightly builds on Windows that cause my projects to build significantly slower than before. My setup is Windows XP SP3, on HP xw4600 Workstation Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200@2.53GHz, C::B is set to use 2 processes for parallell builds in the Global Compiler Settings (build options). The compiler is MS Visual C++ 2010 express. I have downloaded pre-built nightlies from this forum only, I never build C::B from source code myself.
I just did an experiment, compiling my own source code using the above, but 2 different nightly builds of C::B. Observe that the only difference is the C::B IDE version, everything else is the same. The source code, project files and build targets are all the same.
I compiled my code 6 times (always complete Rebuild Workspace) in the following sequence
Nightly build CB 7452: 0 errors, 0 warnings (1 minutes, 35 seconds)
Nightly build CB 7966: === Build finished: 0 errors, 1 warnings (3 minutes, 39 seconds) ===
Nightly build CB 7452: 0 errors, 0 warnings (1 minutes, 36 seconds)
Nightly build CB 7966: === Build finished: 0 errors, 1 warnings (2 minutes, 57 seconds) ===
Nightly build CB 7452: 0 errors, 0 warnings (1 minutes, 40 seconds)
Nightly build CB 7966: === Build finished: 0 errors, 1 warnings (3 minutes, 2 seconds) ===
When looking at the "Performance" tab in the XP Task Manager, it is apparent that compilation is pausing a lot when running under CB 7966. This does not happen with CB 7452, and apparently that makes all the difference. After all the compiler and linker is exactly the same.
Have anyone here seen anything like this? Obviously it is an annoying problem, preventing me from using the newest nightlies.