Rene Groeschke wrote:
Hi Paul,
Am 10.06.2009 um 19:50 schrieb Paul Gier:
We're currently using Maven for a lot of our projects at JBoss and
I've been researching Gradle a bit to see if it can solve some
problems in our builds. I set up one of our simple builds to use
Gradle just to check it's performance vs. Maven, and I was kind of
surprised to see that Gradle seemed somewhat slower for the build.
The project is a basic java/jar project and I am using the gradle
"java" plugin. In Maven this is equivalent to a "jar" packaging. So
running a clean build
gradle clean libs ~ 12s
mvn clean package ~ 8s
gradle libs ~ 10 - 20s (This one varied quite a bit while testing)
mvn package ~ 5s
Maven builds seem significantly slower in general than Ant builds, so
I was hoping that Gradle would be somewhere in between. So anyway, my
question is mainly (1) whether performance is a known problem with
Gradle and it's being worked on, (2) maybe Gradle just has a slow
startup time and with bigger projects it's not an issue, (3) maybe I'm
doing/not doing something that is making the build slower.
The performance of gradle was discussed some days ago at the gradle user
list. Indeed it seems that the startup time of gradle is greater than in
maven and ant. Take a look at the discussion at the mailinglist archive:
http://www.nabble.com/Gradle-performance-td23806096.html for detailed
informations.
Ok, thanks for the info. It looks like most of my questions are answered in
that discussion. Sorry to bring this up again on the dev list.
I obviously didn't do any detailed test, but I did notice that in my
small build the steps that seem to take the most time are the initial
startup, the test task, and the jar task.
How do I tell Gradle to fork once for the tests instead of the default
per test forking? Also I remember reading something in the user guide
about pre compiling the build script, how do I do that?
Thanks much!
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regards,
René
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