Do you have large C++ applications with long linking times even in a debug build and hate waiting every time you press F5? VS 2019 16.8 has a 2 to 4 times faster linker, achieved by multi-threading the PDB file generation. Improvements measured on several AAA games (includes UE4)

I can't believe it!😅 After more than a year of writing, I finally released my first book.🎉 Read it to understand your application's performance on a modern CPU and learn how to improve it. Available for FREE download (PDF) today!⤵️ book.easyperf.net/perf_book Please RT! (1/4)

We've been working hard on optimizing your builds so you can iterate faster. Learn about the changes we've made to debug information, incremental linking, and more in our blog post: devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/faster…

"Faster C++ Iteration Builds" by Visual C++ (devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/faster…) reminded me: in current versions of VS2019 (16.8.x), at Unity we have went away from "fastlink". Originally fastlink was added in VS2015 to make linking faster by keeping debug info in original .obj files,

The teams behind Forza Horizon & Forza Motorsport gained 18.2X and 4.95X link time wins respectively with Visual Studio Learn how Playground Games & Turn 10 Studios shave time off every iteration. devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/playgr…

Finally, CompileScore has a 'build & profile' button inside Visual Studio. It displays the C++ build time data inside the editor with text highlights, reports and flamecharts. Thanks to Kevin Cadieux and Aras Pranckevičius 🇺🇦🇱🇹 for your help and previous work. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

AddressSanitizer for MSVC is no longer experimental. Check out this runtime analysis tool to find and fix memory bugs in your code: devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/addres…

When COVID started I had a quad core laptop as my sole WFH computer. Got a 64 core 3990X last summer. Close to 10x faster full rebuild of Unity C++ code base. Massive difference, especially when reproing bugs in large scale customer projects. Asset build, shader compile, etc...

We're continuing to enable developers to code smarter, with productivity enhancements and cloud-powered support for modern development. Take a glimpse into the 64-bit future of #VisualStudio: msft.it/6012VebNI

We're continually working to improve the #cpp experience in Visual Studio. Check out some recent updates: msft.it/6015Vc9b1

Want 2x-3x performance speedup on debug builds? Try the latest Preview release. devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/2x-3x-…

The new 64-bit Visual Studio 2022 is now available for preview. #VS2022 #VisualStudio2022 devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/v…

Address Sanitizer is now available for Xbox Developers! Learn how to get ASan working in our latest guest blog by @tadswift #CPP #gamedev #VisualStudio devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/addres…

18x Faster IntelliSense for Unreal Engine projects in Visual Studio 2022! Read more aka.ms/18xfaster Epic Games Store #cpp #gamedev

Read about improved perf for #gamedev and large codebases in VS2022 17.1! Get to code quicker with faster C++ IntelliSense readiness and opening files. Search faster with indexed Find in Files and C++ Find All References #cpp #UnrealEngine5 #unrealengine devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/enhanc…

We are now supporting Arm on Azure as well. This has been a long journey to bring up Ampere on Azure with Windows as the Root Host OS! we are also supporting Windows 11 Arm VMs in preview for developers! azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/now…

Welcoming Project Volterra and a comprehensive end-to-end Arm-native toolchain for Arm native apps, including full Visual Studio 2022, WSL, WSA, VS Code and more We’re also helping many open-source projects natively target Arm including Python, node, git, LLVM, and more #MSBuild

Profile Explorer is a tool for viewing CPU profiling traces collected through the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) infrastructure on machines with x64 and ARM64 CPUs github.com/microsoft/prof…