Many programmers know firsthand that C and C++ program builds very long. Someone solves this problem by sword-fighting at build time, someone is going to the kitchen to "grab some coffee". This article is for those who are tired of this, and who decided it is time to do something about it.

Speeding up the Build of C and C++ Projects

by Phillip Khandeliants

From the article:

If your operating system uses ELF format object files (Unix-like systems), you can replace the GNU ld linker with GNU gold. GNU gold comes with binutils starting from the version 2.19, and is activated by the flag -fuse-ld=gold. In CMake it can be activated, for example, by the following code.