On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Julien LF <lefoll.jul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2011/8/18 Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>: >> Depends on which version of Ant you use. Unless it is 1.8.2 upgrading >> could help as we've improved scanning perfromance with almost every >> release. > > I have some environments stuck with Java 1.3 so i planned to use Ant 1.7.1. > I gave Ant 1.8.2 a try (I should have tried that from the start > obviously, sorry) and the performance gain was tremendous as the task > when from 42 minutes to 9 minutes. > >> Another thing to look at is the way you describe your include/exclude >> patterns, if there are any, that is. Patterns that exclude >> whole trees from the root like foo/bar/** can be used to improve >> performance significantly as Ant can skip the whole tree (which it >> didn't do properly before 1.8.2 BTW), for example. >> >> If there are no patterns at all (default excludes?) or they cannot be >> used to shortcut walking the directory tree (**/*.foo) than I don't have >> any other idea what you could do. >> > > I don't use any include/exclude patterns so what I could do is make a > wrapper script to set the Java path to a newer version in order to be > able to use ant 1.8.1, but some of my tasks call our app which > requires Java 1.3.
You have an app that will *only* run on Java 1.3? :/ Matt > I'll look into separating the tasks into targets called by the wrapper. > > Thanks a lot, > Julien > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
