>The inefficiency of that process increases electricity usage, the carbon footprint, and therefore contributes to climate change. Which, eventually, murders puppies.

You'll waste more electricity trying to solve it correctly than it will ever waste.

The real problem to solve would be: how to make GCC, Clang, etc. fast. Or how to make C++'s syntax easy and fast to work with.

Or how to convince people to switch to Rust? ;)