RE: How to speed up RCP application build time?

Hi Sergio,

This may be a long shot but you mention that the problem only occurs on the
"schools" computer running Windows XP SP2. I'm not sure how you have your
Netbeans config setup or even if you have adjusted your AutoUpdate but is
the Windows XP SP2 client part of a Window domain as this may your problem
(as this is what I have had issues with). If the school employs roaming
profiles and/or folder redirection then this could be causing the slow
builds as these will be going across the network, for example I think the
default location for projects is your "My Documents" folder, if folder
redirection is in place which is normally transparent to the user (on XP
anyway) then the build will be going over the network and thereby be pretty
slow. If you are building from a directory outside you "user directory" (if
not give it a shot) then it could be stalling only on the AutoUpdate part if
the school's network has a proxy and as a consequence of restrictions cannot
access the external network correctly and therefore obtain the AutoUpdate
information; the AutoUpdate configuration could be stalling at a timeout
rather than "actually" taking this long to build.  

I have had a few issues with IDEs on Domain networks and long builds mainly
come down to permission or network issue on Windows clients, once they have
been adjusted everything works great, but the thing is you need to know
about them first. If your Ubuntu box is also on the school network it may
not be affected by the same problem as Linux boxes don't tend to be
integrated to use roaming and folder redirection and therefore do not
realise the same issues as Windows based clients and Linux boxes tend to be
globally configured to use proxies whereby each application on Windows
usually has to be configured to use it otherwise they just die or timeout.

From experience I really do not think this has anything to do with memory or
hard drive speeds (as you say it is only 4 modules) as I had a quad core hp
workstation with 4GB RAM which was having similar issues with build times.

Regards,

Caza  

-----Original Message-----
From: Sergio Lopes [mailto:knitter.is@...]
Sent: 05 May 2008 23:10
To: dev@...
Subject: [openide-dev] How to speed up RCP application build time?

Hi,
The build time of my application it too big. Every time I try to build
and run it it takes around 3 minutes to complete the build task,
sometimes it takes more but I've never had to wait less than the 3
minutes.

I noticed that the task that takes longer it the "Generating
information for Auto Update...", can I disable it? Or what else can I
do so that in order to test a small change I don't have to go and get
a cup of coffee, I'm spending more time in the coffee area than on the
project :)

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Best regards,

Sérgio Lopes