> from my experience, linux compiles my code about 5-10x faster than on windows
If this is C++, you must be running GCC? And I'm guessing it might not be the MinGW version? Try Clang. Something GCC does makes its performance die on Windows. Not entirely sure what it is but you won't see this kind of a difference with Clang (or I think the MinGW version of GCC).
Well either that, or you're compiling a language that's so fast to compile that most of the time is spent just opening and closing files.
If this is C++, you must be running GCC? And I'm guessing it might not be the MinGW version? Try Clang. Something GCC does makes its performance die on Windows. Not entirely sure what it is but you won't see this kind of a difference with Clang (or I think the MinGW version of GCC).
Well either that, or you're compiling a language that's so fast to compile that most of the time is spent just opening and closing files.