--- Ken Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Simeon Fitch wrote: > > > I think the real argument for this is speed. If it > > will make loading and running Ant faster I think > it > > should be considered. My builds with Ant are still > > much slower than they were with make. > > > > Wow, that really stunned me! I moved our stuff > from an Imakefile/Makefile based system to Ant, > and saw great improvement. One part of our > system used to take 1 hr 15min to compile in the > Makefile based system, and takes 7 minutes > to compile using Ant. It has 2158 source files... >
I guess I should have qualified it some. On small builds with ~100 files running jikes on Linux with JDK 1.2.2, my make based system still wins. It's a hand crafted set of makefiles; no Imake or automake stuff. A lot of the win is in startup time. Simeon ===== mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
