To your point, regarding tuning the localWorkers parameter, I get 
significant speedup going from the default of 4 localWorkers down to 2. 
(i5-4460 Desktop CPU, 500 GB SSD and 32 GB of RAM). It doesn't matter what 
I set the heap limit to, the compilation appears to be memory bandwidth 
limited, or perhaps GC bandwidth limited. 

My times are roughly 300 s for 4 workers, 90 s for 2 and 100 s for 1. When 
compiling with 4 local workers, my system will lock up for a second here 
and there during compilation, the mouse will freeze, other applications 
will jitter. The system-wide jitter strongly suggests memory bandwidth 
saturation and poor cache performance on the part of the GWT compiler. I 
get no jitter with 2 localWorkers. 

My project code base is about 250 k lines, about 1/3-1/2 of that is front 
end GWT code. 

On Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 1:15:54 PM UTC-3, Jens wrote:
>
>
> Are there someone working on the optimization of the GWT compiler, it is 
>> too slow for us
>>
>
> No. 
>
> You can use -localWorkers parameter to adjust how many permutations should 
> be compiled in parallel. The higher the number the more memory is needed. 
> If you use -localWorkers 1 then permutations are compiled one after the 
> other which requires the least amount of memory. You can also use -Xmx JVM 
> parameter to limit the amount of heap used, although this might result in 
> more garbage collects and thus longer compile times.
>
> The only other option is to split a large app into smaller apps.
>
> -- J.
>

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