{"id":11914,"date":"2019-07-30T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2019-07-30T10:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:18:54","slug":"aa5r52s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-aa5r52s\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Linker Fundamentals in Visual Studio 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the C++ team we\u2019ve heard loud and clear from users that build times are a pain point. So we\u2019ve continued our focus on improving the step, linking, that dominates F5 build times. Fast F5 build times, or iteration build times, are a key contributor to developer productivity and we felt that there was a large opportunity so we narrowed in on changes that we felt could move the needle 2x or more.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/linker-throughput-improvement-in-visual-studio-2019\/\">This is on top of the significant improvements we made to the tool chain to speed up link times in the VS 2019 16.0 release<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Let me give a teaser of the kinds of wins we were able to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the C++ team we\u2019ve heard loud and clear from users that build times are a pain point. So we\u2019ve continued our focus on improving the step, linking, that dominates F5 build times. Fast F5 build times, or iteration build times, are a key contributor to developer productivity and we felt that there was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>On the C++ team we\u2019ve heard loud and clear from users that build times are a pain point. So we\u2019ve continued our focus on improving the step, linking, that dominates F5 build times. Fast F5 build times, or iteration build times, are a key contributor to developer productivity and we felt that there was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}