Developer Speed

I am new to SF (having built MVC apps in the past). I am wondering if my slow SF  development speed is typical. I am working with a Feather MVC project and SF 8.0. My time from start to page view is ~ 75 seconds. I feel like that is too long to be productive. I have disabled unused modules and I am rendering temp asp.net files to RamDisk (although I already have an i7 processor with an SSD disk).

How are people building SF solutions that don't involve long compile/start times?  There are so many options for customizing SF I might be taking the wrong approach.

For example. If you place your 'Feather' views in the MVC/Views/Shared folder you can update them and view the changes without re-compiling. This saves a lot of time vs a full restart of the app for a minor html change. 

...it's pretty brutal to be productive you are right, you just have to live with it :/

Precompilation tool doesn't work for MVC (although it speeds up the backend quite a bit)

Feather has been a lifesaver with the ability to just quickly change a view to see changes...

Thanks for your response. Yes I think I'll have to live with feather and it's views (at least) hosted in the main project. 

Couple other tips...

1) Run the site in IIS not localhost

2) In your task manager\details find the w3wp process, right-click, set it to high priority

Thanks that brought my startup time to just under a minute.