If you only need it for yourself you could probably speed things up by doing

Smalltalk closeSourceFiles. [ compile��� ] ensure: [ Smalltalk openSourceFiles ].

That will prevent reads and writes from and to the changes / sources files. Of course, that doesn���t solve the problem in general.

Cheers,
Max

> On 21 Nov 2015, at 20:09, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> recompiling all classes -> ~ 2 minutes
> recompiling all traits -> ~�� 13 minutes
>
> is there any way to recompile all without removing and adding all trait methods
> for trait users ? Because this touches the changes file (although recompiling
> shouldn't change the source) and touching the changes file for many methods
> is pretty slow on windows.
>
>
> nicolai