Well, if I've saved "serious time" by 10:30am, I'm happy indeed. I've got another depends-on-your-hardware-but-I-saw-4min-saving (for work-to-do rebuild of samples, so no gain if you use buildonly) out to scott already, though it's small enough that anyone who wants to review at http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/36802/show can help Scott do real work instead of ant file review.
2009/6/11 Joel Webber <j...@google.com> > w00t indeed. This just saved me serious time this morning already. > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Scott Blum <sco...@google.com> wrote: > >> w00t!! >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Freeland Abbott <fabb...@google.com>wrote: >> >>> As of r5537, my no-change "ant build" takes 1:55 instead of 19:43, and >>> there's still some easy work to do, albeit with obviously diminishing >>> returns >>> >>> Most of that difference is due to a rather annoying timestamp >>> consideration with directory entries in jars; my patch introduces a new Ant >>> task, LatestTimeJar, to resolve it. >>> >>> The issue is---was---that in general, we jar both >>> .../src/com/google/gwt/.../Foo.java and also >>> build/out/.../com/google/gwt/.../Foo.class. The jar file will have one >>> directory entry for "com/", the existence of which is actually important to >>> GWT as Scott pointed out in the first-round review comments. But the two >>> directories have different touch dates, and we archived the first-named, >>> which was usually from .../src/..., with an "old" date by svn. The second >>> build would therefore notice that the *second* instance of "com/" was >>> newer than the archived "com/", and therefore jar it again. (Because we did >>> "updates," the entry would have been new after that second cycle. In some >>> cases, notably the servet API classes in alldeps.jar, we had up to four such >>> duplicates, though.) Worse, everything downstream of that error also had to >>> be redone... including the samples. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
