Re: Performance of Gradle vs. Maven

> Hi Paul,
>
> Am 10.06.2009 um 19:50 schrieb Paul Gier:
>
>>
>> We're currently using Maven for a lot of our projects at JBoss and
>> I've been researching Gradle a bit to see if it can solve some
>> problems in our builds.  I set up one of our simple builds to use
>> Gradle just to check it's performance vs. Maven, and I was kind of
>> surprised to see that Gradle seemed somewhat slower for the build.
>>
>> The project is a basic java/jar project and I am using the gradle
>> "java" plugin.  In Maven this is equivalent to a "jar" packaging.  So
>> running a clean build
>>
>> gradle clean libs ~ 12s
>> mvn clean package ~ 8s
>>
>> gradle libs ~ 10 - 20s (This one varied quite a bit while testing)
>> mvn package ~ 5s
>>
>> Maven builds seem significantly slower in general than Ant builds, so
>> I was hoping that Gradle would be somewhere in between.  So anyway, my
>> question is mainly (1) whether performance is a known problem with
>> Gradle and it's being worked on, (2) maybe Gradle just has a slow
>> startup time and with bigger projects it's not an issue, (3) maybe I'm
>> doing/not doing something that is making the build slower.
>
> The performance of gradle was discussed some days ago at the gradle user
> list. Indeed it seems that the startup time of gradle is greater than in
> maven and ant. Take a look at the discussion at the mailinglist archive:
> http://www.nabble.com/Gradle-performance-td23806096.html for detailed
> informations.
>
>

>> I obviously didn't do any detailed test, but I did notice that in my
>> small build the steps that seem to take the most time are the initial
>> startup, the test task, and the jar task.
>>
>> How do I tell Gradle to fork once for the tests instead of the default
>> per test forking?  Also I remember reading something in the user guide
>> about pre compiling the build script, how do I do that?
>>
>> Thanks much!
>>
>>
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> René
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