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I'm guessing the comment was downvoted because the suggestions are mentioned in the first paragraph of the article...

> After trying a few stopgap solutions—like purchasing M1 Maxs for our team—build times gradually reverted to their original pace; Ccache and remote caching weren’t enough either.

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Parallelization is not a stop gap solution. Is the only scalable one as C++ projects tend to grow to multimilion lines of code easily. And with distcc (or similar) you do not need to buy your developers beefy workstations (although you should!).

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