Installed GAS plugin, stuck with waiting 5 hours to compile

Howdy.

I am a little disappoint; I installed the GAS plugin and now I’m waiting for 3780 files to compile.

I have already set my xml file to use all cores and what not.

I even set it to link instead of compile everything. But yet that only lowered the count by 80.

I am just recompiling my project only.

The more I look at the whole UE.5.8.1 source, the more I’m sitting here wondering why it’s a giant pancake made out of noodles; does it really need to be 300 gigs with 390,000 files?

There has to be some way to trim this fat?

I can’t imagine this is a standard way of working on a daily basis. Fully compiling is a nightmare-ish concept to me and destroys any hope of getting anything done in a day.

I am using;

Processor

AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core Processor, 3001 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)

64gigs of RAM

Shouldn’t this be taking minutes, not hours?