Hi Todd,
Here's what this wiki page has to say: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Quick_Tips
" Compile times are getting longer and longer. Maybe people now have dual or even quad core machines. CCSv4 uses make as its build system underneath the project. This quick demo shows how to usemingw-make as a replacement for gmake in CCSv4 to take advantage of multiple cores in a build. gmake claims to support parallel builds, however it does not work on Windows. The option to enable parallel builds in mingw-make is -j # where # is the number of cores. So typically this is -j 2 Note: the newer gmake in CCSv5 supports -j so there is no need to install mingw."
Regards,
Gautam