I currently maintain a legacy C+ app that runs on x86/x86_64/armhf linux, all 4 android archs and x86/x86_64 windows.
The linux compilation phase takes 1m, whereas on windows (using MinGW) it takes 10m. It's not the end of the world, but would the MS compiler be faster? Better?
there’s a free trial and there’s the build tools that can run from the command line or vscode. Why not give it a try?
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-msvc https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2022