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Re: Gradle performance

by Curtis Cooley-3 :: Rate this Message:

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On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Peter Niederwieser <pniederw@...> wrote:
> 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?

I think what you are seeing is the startup cost of Gradle, which in my
observations is higher than Ant's. When you get to 60 second
build/test runs then you should be seeing 53 second ant builds and 60
second Gradle builds. Whether that is acceptable is up to you.
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