Assaf Arkin wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Ittay Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The reason I'm requesting this is that I have a buildfile with 150 projects
and the current way Buildr works, by invoking all projects takes too much
time when I want to build just a single project (and its dependencies of
course). On developer windows machine this "warmup" time is ~15 seconds and
is increasing as more modules are added. From my tests, this patch can lower
it to just a few seconds.
The reason I asked you to bring this back to the mailing list is the size issue.
The projects I'm working on have, in the order of 1000~5000 files (not
just source code), 5~25 projects, warmup around a second.
Occasionally I would test things out against a larger corpus of code,
~50,000 files, I'm happy when that turns to go under 5 seconds. Only
because I consider that at the top scale of what a single buildfile is
expected to support.
did you test on windows machines?
also, in my case, buildr is used to build c++ modules, where unlike
java, you need to run the compilation frequently. so even 5 seconds is
annoying.
There are certain optimizations you can make that would benefits the
smaller sizes (the 1000~5000 above), and would be acceptable on larger
size (~50,000), but might be a drag on larger buildfiles. I never
test with anything larger because I think the soft spot, the majority
of uses fall in the smaller scale. Anything substantially larger you
would want to (well, at least me) break up.
majority of users in general, yes. but out of those users who will look
into buildr? users with small scale projects, can probably manage with
ant+ivy or maven. they will not need to learn a new language, there's a
better community, more plugins, etc. so i think the sweet spot of buildr
is in complex projects.
i do want to break the buildfile, but unfortunately i can't, the
projects are very interconnected. it is enough to have one dependency to
make two otherwise separate groups be in one file. doesn't make the code
complex
anyway, i think the patch i sent is fairly simple. it took me a few
hours to create, so why not incorporate it?
ittay
So I'm wondering where do other people stand on this? What's the size
range you expect buildfiles to be optimized for?
Assaf
Ittay
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