On a whim, I implemented parallel download of artifacts by hooking the downloadArtifacts method of Resolve engine. While this can potentially speed up download performance, the resolution times (getDepedencies) still dominates (of course). Parallel downloads is an often requested feature of sbt, so we may still release this hook for our users, as they request it, but I think the *really* just want faster resolution times.
We may be doing some investigation into improving the performance of getDependencies (and most importantly fetchDependencies). I was curious if anyone else in the Ivy community has attempted this before and what sorts of guidance they could offer before we dig in. Thanks! - Josh
