Build: enable parallel source file compilation on MSVC #2072
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By default Visual Studio projects do not compile source files in parallel. Add "/MP" flag to enable that.
From scratch OCIO build on Ryzen 5950X, VS2022: 580sec -> 208sec. Most of remaining single-threaded time is cloning external libraries or building external libraries (most of them don't do parallel compilation either). But within building OCIO itself, CPU usage goes close to 100% instead of 5%.