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Jason van Zyl closed MNG-2717. ------------------------------ Resolution: Fixed > Cache the repo dependencies > --------------------------- > > Key: MNG-2717 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2717 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Artifacts and Repositories > Affects Versions: 2.0.4 > Reporter: Nigel Magnay > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 3.x > > > Once projects get of a significant size, there can be a large number of > dependencies, and transitive dependencies thereof. > In our WAR projects (for example), this can approach a few hundred > dependencies (though there are a fair number of duplicates). > Looking at JProfiler (after examinining one of my own non-maven tools that > also parses POM files), the parsing cycle of reading all these POM files from > the local repo, and pull-parsing them for dependencies takes a significant > proportion of the execute time (4 of the top 10 hotspots are in MXParser. > Since non-snapshot dependencies ought never to change their dependencies [1], > and dependency download could trigger the fact that the dependencies might > have changed anyway, some kind of caching mechanism could be used to speed > this up (something like {artifact, scope} -> List{artifact}). > [1] I have reserved a particular space in hell for those people who *do* > change the deps on released POMs... ;-S -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira