Why is javac 1.5 running so slowly compared with the Eclipse compiler?
- by Simon Nickerson
I have a Java Maven project with about 800 source files (some generated by javacc/JTB) which is taking a good 25 minutes to compile with javac.
When I changed my pom.xml over to use the Eclipse compiler, it takes about 30 seconds to compile.
Any suggestions as to why javac (1.5) is running so slowly? (I don't want to switch over to the Eclipse…