With over 2,000 source and resource files in our application (just the client-side is 1k as, 500 mxml, there's another 8k8 .java on the server side), our compile time is under 30 seconds (on a C2D 2.33 w/4GB), so I would hazard a guess something's wrong.
A few things to check/do: 0. Create a basic application. Does compiling even the simplest of apps take a similar amount of time? 1. Get a line counter. There's dozens out there, just grab one you're happy with (no, I don't have any particular recommendations). At least just get a file and line counter so you've got some basic metrics to base information on. 2. What is the system CPU doing? Is it burning away at 100% while compiling the whole time? Similarly, are you running out of memory? Eclipse can get pretty memory hungry, and if you're only on a 1GB system with Eclipse trying to chew 700MB, it could be paging like crazy. 3. Fire up perfmon and add some counters while you do a compile. Find out what's going on - any heavy disk thrashing, cpu/memory loading. Basically try to identify is it just doing any timed waits or blocking calls? 4. Write an ANT target to compile the source from a CLI, if you haven't done so already. Hell, you could even execute it manually. Does mxmlc.exe take the same amount of time as the eclipse build? These are just a few small things I'd consider trying/looking at which might help identify the problem Tim Rowe Software Engineer carsales.com Ltd ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of edlueze Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Builder Compiler Performance Benchmarking Hi Folks: Can somebody tell me what a reasonable compile-time for a Flex Application is? A clean build for my application will take about 2 hours, and an incremental compile after I've changed several files will often take an hour. If I've only changed one file then an incremental compile will usually take less than a minute. I'm using Flex Builder 3.0 in Eclipse and it would be typical for me to see the same error message repeated a dozen times (presumably the compiler has passed through the same file that many times). I was new to Flex when I started this project and I've been working on it for about 6 months. I have no idea how many lines of code I've got, but how big could it be if it's only been me working on it?! There are about 100 files of all sorts and I've cleared out most of the other projects. After reading others complain about compilation times of only 40 seconds (my dream!) I started getting worried that I've fundamentally botched the way I've set things up. Any feedback would be very welcome! Thanks, Ted.
