Visual Studio 2010 Linker performance improvements

A long, long time ago I wrote quite a bit about PE files, OBJ files, compilers, linkers, etc... Thus, it warms my heart to see the VC++ linker adding a dedicated thread for writing PDBs, and achieving a nice performance boost as a result.

https://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2009/09/10/linker-throughput.aspx