>>>>> "Stefano" == Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano@apache.org> writes:
Stefano> Scott_Boag@lotus.com wrote:
>>
>> We build distributions and the like with ant. But for my personal
>> development cycles, I still like make... it seems faster. Maybe we just
>> need to improve our ant file.
Stefano> faster? are you kidding? ant is 10 times faster than make
Stefano> on almost every system I found... what's the problem are
Stefano> you having? does it recompile everything everytime? do
Stefano> you use jikes?
I agree with this, Ant does seem faster. I think this might be because
Ant doesn't need to start a new copy of Java for every file
compiled... However, Ant doesn't seem to understand dependencies
between Java files, so you may not always see errors, when deleting a
public method you thought was unused, for instance. At least, thats my
experience, what should happen in theory might be different.
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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