Thank you @kaylangan. One thing that came up was whether it's possible to speed up C++/CMake builds with a compilation cache, like [clcache](https://github.com/frerich/clcache). Another is to have pre-compiled Boost builds (both Debug and Release) on the hosted VS images.
A specific pain point was that the system drive (C:) seems quite slow, which led me to override the default location for various things (such as Conda package downloads and Conda environments). [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/2674 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
