RE: javac issues

[Peter Vogel]

Check out "ant"  http://jakarta.apache.org/ant

Not that I like it all that much, but it does what you suggest.

Seems like Cons could do it with a little effort, take a look
at the code for the javac task for a leg up.

-Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cook [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 8:26 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: javac issues
> 
> 
> has anyone any experience using cons with javac?  javac has
> considerable startup overhead.  so, invoking javac once with 100
> *.java files is much (!) quicker than invoking javac 100 times once
> per file.
> 
> if only some of the 100 *.java files need to be re-compiled, ideally
> cons could figure out which need to be recompiled and then invoke
> javac only once and passing only that subset of the files.
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> m.
> 
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