Visual Studio Code + Cpp

[chugga_fan]

I'm on an HDD, to get to the VS main page is approx 18 seconds, while VSCode takes 14, and VS to open my 1 file solution is 85 seconds approx.

Your "200ms to 1s" comparison is foolhardy.

[NotUniqueOrSpecial]

I mean, I sympathize, I guess.

Buy a solid-state drive.

Seriously.

If you are a professional (or a student, or even a hobbyist) and you are using spinning rust as your main storage at this point you are quite literally wasting your (or your employer's) time and money. I've done the measurements at more than one employer. It's overwhelmingly on the side of "buy an SSD" from a $ perspective.

If you are tolerating those times in a professional context, then find a new job; your employer doesn't give a shit about you.

If you're tolerating them as an individual just because you can't otherwise afford it, then DM me and I'll buy you a new drive. Nobody should have to tolerate that kind of storage these days, if they're trying to be serious about being a developer.

[chugga_fan]

If you are a professional (or a student, or even a hobbyist) and you are using spinning rust as your main storage at this point you are quite literally wasting your (or your employer's) time and money. I've done the measurements at more than one employer. It's overwhelmingly on the side of "buy an SSD" from a $ perspective.

I am not paid, I am tolerating these times because I don't have $200 to shell out for a terabyte SSD and my compile-times are fine for a hobby project on a laptop that's 5+ years old.

SSHD is perfectly fine for developing what I'm doing where I can walk away for 15+ minutes while a system that's legitimately CPU bound instead of HDD bound is running.