Then around 1995 I got access to HP-UX and native compiler there and GCC. Nobody heard about precompiled headers and people thought the only way to speed up compilation was to get access to computer with more CPUs and rely on make -j.
And then there was no interest to implement precompiled headers from free and proprietary vendors.
The only innovation was unity builds when one includes multiple C++ sources into super-source. But then Google killed support for it in Chromium claiming that with their build farm unity builds made things slower and supporting them in Chromium build system was unbearable burden for Google.
