The sensible way to speed up compilation 5x was implemented almost 10 years ago, worked amazingly well, and was completely ignored. I don't expect progress from the standards committees. Here it is if you're interested: https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc
The next major advance to be completely ignored by standards committees will be the 100% memory safe C/C++ compiler, which is also implemented and works amazingly well: https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c
The next major advance to be completely ignored by standards committees will be the 100% memory safe C/C++ compiler, which is also implemented and works amazingly well: https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c