> I'm guessing an SSD would speed things up too.
In all seriousness, it depends. If you're running a reasonably new i7 and you throw all cores plus hyperthreads at it, then an SSD will help. However, even older models i7 will be bottlenecked on the CPU, and an SSD will have next to no speed increase.
I know this because I had a late 2010-model Dell tower with a 3.2GHz i7 in it, and after throwing a 250GB SSD into it, compiling MAME was not faster in the slightest. However, on my new machine that has 6 cores and is a more modern revision of i7, it's a hell of a lot faster on the SSD than if I compile off my spinning disk.
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