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Oliver Jowett commented on IVY-1318:
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IVY-1252 seems to be similar in intent (but a totally different implementation)
> Faster symlink creation (avoid a JVM fork per symlink)
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> Key: IVY-1318
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1318
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Reporter: Oliver Jowett
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: ivy-2.2.0-symlink.txt
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> We have a large project using Ivy with many large artifacts.
> In theory we should benefit from symlink="true" (space savings and reduced
> I/O), but in practice the overhead of forking the Ant JVM for each individual
> symlink means that a build using symlink="true" actually runs a lot (30%+)
> slower, which is too much of a cost to justify using it.
> To work around this I modified FileUtils to run a single long-lived shell
> process that reads instructions from stdin and performs symlinks accordingly.
> This makes symlink="true" no slower than symlink="false".
> I will attach a patch against 2.2.0. Tested only in a Linux environment, but
> in theory it should work on anything POSIX-y, and should fall back to file
> copy much as the existing code does if anything goes wrong.
> Any interest in getting this included in an official version?
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