At 01:44 AM 8/16/2002 +0200, Harald Niesche wrote:
> > I know nothing about Eclipse incremental builds, cause it takes about 5-15
> > seconds for me to build an average project with jikes (which is also
> > incremental), so I never bothered to learn this feature.
>
>Well the incremental build means that the compile times vanish in the time
>it takes to save the changes to disk -- there is no noticeable delay
>(certainly less than a second) and the build folder is always up-to-date.
>That also means that starting the project takes only the time it takes to
>start up the Java VM.
>
>I wouldn't wanna miss it. :-)
This is very cool.
But anyway, I think that Ant build time is really comparable. Those 5-15
seconds I mentioned include 1-2 seconds of jikes + all the extras: building
JAR's, copying resources, running JavaCC, generating docs from XML, etc.
(except for JavaDoc which is very slow). Of course calling ant is an extra
mouse click, but it does much more than just compiling the code.
The only performance benefit I haven't explored yet is starting Ant from
the same JVM as Eclipse. Somehow both standard Ant plugin and "AntView"
plugin seem to crash on my installation, so I have to use the command line.
Andrus
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