Visual Studio 4 cores 8 threads 3.6 GHz build: cmake -DLLVM_UTILS_BUILD_DIR="" -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=all ../llvm Debug total build time: 09:51.917 Visual Studio 4 cores 8 threads 3.6 GHz buildutils: cmake -DLLVM_UTILS_ONLY=ON ../llvm build: cmake -DLLVM_UTILS_BUILD_DIR=../buildutils -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=all ../llvm Debug total build time: 06:17.920 Mac 4 cores 8 threads 2.8 GHz llvmbuild: cmake -DLLVM_UTILS_BUILD_DIR="" -DLLVM_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../llvm time make -j12 real 6m25s user 34m46s sys 3m47s make -j12 check-all time make -j12 check-all real 1m45s user 7m1s sys 2m58s Mac 4 cores 8 threads 2.8 GHz llvmutils: cmake -DLLVM_UTILS_ONLY=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../llvm llvmbuild: cmake -DLLVM_UTILS_BUILD_DIR=../llvmtools -DLLVM_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../llvm time make -j12 real 6m7s user 34m28s sys 3m55s make -j12 check-all time make -j12 check-all real 1m38s user 6m58s sys 2m55s