Gradle performance

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. 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?

Cheers,
Peter

PS: You can download the HelloSpock project from http://spock.googlecode.com/files/HelloSpockProject.zip