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Eduardo Jimenez commented on IVY-469:
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I'm a bit surprised there aren't more votes here, since in my experience
countless hours are spent (for various valid or invalid reasons) waiting for
artifact download in a variety of cases.
Release builds are usually executed without caching. In large modern projects
with hundreds of dependences, one ends up waiting 10 minutes while dependencies
are resolved and downloaded, even in reasonably fast networks.
For most projects its of course arguably overkill. And most developers rebuild
their ivy cache maybe only a few times a year so overall not a huge problem
from that perspective.
For release builds though, it would make them go significantly faster, IMHO.
And in these days of SSDs and fast networks, it would be a nice option for
those times where you do have a large number of uncached dependencies.
> Parallelize artifact downloading
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> Key: IVY-469
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-469
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Xavier Hanin
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> For the moment artifact downloading during dependencies resolution happens
> sequentially, each artifact being downloaded one after the other.
> It would be nice to improve Ivy resolve engine to be able to parallelize
> downloading to optimize performance, especially when using a set of
> repositories with heterogeneous performance.
> We should see how load balancing feature of IVY-468 could be leveraged by
> this new downloading strategy.
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