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by p2detar 1546 days ago
Gradle has actually saved my build. About 3x faster than my old Maven setup. Also, my build files are much less bloated.

The only problem I find is the API updates between major versions. Still, I’m never going back to Maven. Love Gradle.

Building embedded server apps, many sub projects, single Java/Kotlin codebase.
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lenkite 1546 days ago
The only reason Gradle is faster is because it uses a daemon for build caching and leverage JVM code optimization.

Once you apply that same strategy to Maven, it actually tends to beat Gradle in performance too. See Maven Daemon: https://github.com/apache/maven-mvnd

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ptx 1546 days ago
And if you build from inside IntelliJ, I think it already does essentially the same thing (unless you tell it not to) by importing the Maven project into its internal build system and using a compiler daemon: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/delegate-build-and-run-a...
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InsaneOstrich 1546 days ago
Gradle also has the ability to skip things it has already done. It won't recompile code that hasn't changed, won't run tests that haven't changed, etc
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p2detar 1545 days ago
> actually tends to beat Gradle in performance too.

Mvnd seems somewhat recent compared to Gradle’s daemon feature. Are there any measurements that confirm this statement? I don’t find any in the repo?

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