I think the trouble is that Ant only calls javac. It doesn't determine how javac behaves, so couldn't decide automagically when to stop and restart it to conserve memory. You might try creating multiple <javac> tags and put a different piece of your src tree into each one. Obviously this would be difficult to maintain, but it might satisfy your requirements.
K.C. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alejandro Ramirez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 12:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] memory footprint > > > Hola ant-dev-help, > > Ant needs 68MB RAM to compile 523 files (around 2,98MB of code). > (Win2000 + JDK 1.3 + ant 1.2alpha3). > This is an open source proyect so we don�t like to exclude poor > students with low end systems. > > I think Ant should have an option to launch a javac each xxx files, > one task after another, to keep low memory footprint. > > I read the code and it seems fairly easy to do, did I miss something? > > > -- > Thanks for your time, > Alejandro > >
