>From my personal experience, I think that it will get linearly (not exponentially) worse. But yes, this is an issue in Gradle.
~~ Robert. On 6 September 2010 08:28, Magnus Rundberget <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > We've chosen gradle for our new build system and we've started the journey > from maven 1 (!) to gradle. > > We have a very granular structure at the moment, with about 80-90 leaf > projects producing output artifacts (and obviously lots of interdependencies > going on + lots of 3rd party dependencies). > In the short term I don't think restructuring our project structure and > associated directory structure is an option. In the longer term it will be > consolidated. > > I've ported about 40 of the simpler projects to one large gradle > multiproject build. However there is starting to be a fairly substantial > overhead in "initialization" before actually doing anything in terms of > building. > Doing gradle -t on a subprojsct now takes around 10,5 seconds, same for > gradle clean. > > I've tried the same on the gradle branch (Im obviously aware its work in > progress) using a gradle daemon. gradle -t on a subproject here takes about > 6,5 seconds (after running it 2 times first:- > > Little more background; > - I'm currently using a locally installed nexus repository for all my third > party dependencies > - I'm running cygwin on windows xp > - Using gradle 0.9 rc1 > > From running gradle -t -i, I've made the following observations from the > log; > - Evaluate root project uses about 2 seconds > - Summing up resolution report resolve is almost 4 seconds (typically > something like "resolution report :: resolve 266ms :: artifacts dl 0ms") > > > The questions; > 1) Should I assume that the overhead will get exponentially worse if adding > the remaining 40-50 subprojects ? > 2) Anything I could do to reduce the overhead whilst still getting the > benefits of incremental builds (ie without having to resort to splitting > into many more multiprojects?) > 3) When can I hope for a working version of 0.9.1 with gradle daemon > working on windows ? :-) > > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > cheers > Magnus > >
