On Jun 3, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Hans Dockter wrote:
On May 31, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Peter Niederwieser wrote:
Hi,
first of all my congratulations to Gradle 0.6! I'm happy to say that
compiling and running Spock specifications now works just fine.
Also I'm
impressed with the much improved build script DSL.
I have a HelloSpock project that contains a single Groovy class (a
Spock
specification). What puzzles me a bit is that 'gradle test' takes
10 seconds
to complete. By comparison, 'ant test' takes 3 seconds, and 'mvn
test' 8
seconds.
What version of Maven are you using?
This is on repeated invocation, i.e. all downloading and
compilation has already taken place. Do you consider this
acceptable? Would
the difference be less pronounced for bigger projects?
First of all I'm surprised by the seven seconds difference. It would
be interesting to see which areas are mostly responsible for this
(startup time, dependency management, testing, ...). We will have a
look at this. I assume it is less pronounced in larger projects. But
we have to examine this to be sure.
After all it does not look that bad. It is not a fundamental issue.
Here are some numbers:
Gradle
time gradle clean compile
real 0m3.188s
user 0m2.909s
sys 0m0.177s
Ant 1.7
time ant clean compile
real 0m2.204s
user 0m1.841s
sys 0m0.239s
Maven 2.0.9
time mvn clean compile
real 0m2.648s
user 0m2.351s
sys 0m0.189s
So you see that there is a small Groovy startup time cost but I think
this is no problem.
The tests are taking so much longer for two reasons. One is that the
compileTests always checks for the newest Spock snapshot in the remote
repository. Which is different to the Maven behavior which checks by
default once a day. Not using a snapshot this yields:
time gradle clean test
real 0m7.668s
user 0m6.839s
sys 0m0.564s
time ant clean test
real 0m3.405s
user 0m2.893s
sys 0m0.364s
time mvn clean test
real 0m7.752s
user 0m7.044s
sys 0m0.487s
Which means Gradle is as fast as Maven but significantly slower than
Ant. Tom has added a lot of auto test detection stuff in 0.6 I'm
wondering if this is related to that. Even just compiling the tests
take surprisingly long.
I have filed a Jira: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRADLE-514
- Hans
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Hans Dockter
Gradle Project Manager
http://www.gradle.org
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