Improve Build Time on dual processor machine

Thanks for the replies guys.

Given all the information here and other places, I think guidelines for a good build machine for FPGA designs would be something like:

- Fastest CPU you can get

- Largest cache you can get

- Fastest memory bus support you can get

- 16GB of RAM for Stratix V (but memory should be expandable for future larger FPGAs)

- ECC memory is probably preferable

- HT turned off if present

- Single CPU is probably sufficient (if not better)

In terms of project settings, design partitions help parallelize synthesis and its probably worth using all available processors but one may want to experiment with that.