Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-user-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 90254 invoked by uid 500); 19 Sep 2001 20:21:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Reply-To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 90244 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2001 20:21:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3BA8FC6D.5020009@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:13:33 -0400 From: David Walend User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: javac task and the vm [was Re: very basic question] References: <1A69639B9B6AD511812B00B0D0DE19F60F0AD3@COMMSERVER> <3BA8EF5D.1020303@dantanner.com> <1000930103.2460.34.camel@sawgrass.sedonageo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Matthew Inger wrote: >Does the "javac" task use the same vm to compile as it uses >to run ANT? Or is there something special it does to boost >the compile time. > Mathew, Unless you use the fork="yes" option in ant 1.4, ant uses the same vm to compile. My machine seems to take about three seconds to start a vm, so it's not much of a penalty. However, the only times I've needed to use this option were when I was compiling source that used a different version of java's xml libraries. Dave