[kepler-dev] kepler startup time

[Chad Berkley]

Ok, cool.  I was just wondering what the status is.  Let me know if I 
can help you out in some way.

chad


Aaron Schultz wrote:
> Chad Berkley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The kepler startup time is starting to really hinder development.  Is 
>> there a timeline for getting the startup times back to what they were 
>> a few months ago?  I think these bug fixes should take precedence as 
>> it not only affects user experience, but also makes it really 
>> frustrating to develop when you have to restart kepler a lot.  It's 
>> taking almost 4 minutes for me to restart kepler after a clean-all.
>>
>> thanks,
>> chad
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> 
> Hi Chad, Hope to be back to a faster startup in a week or two...  I'm 
> definitely struggling with it at the moment.
> 
> There's a mod that is very convenient for developers to speed up run 
> time speed for now, here is what I wrote early to the list about the 
> devKars function, this won't help after a clean-all though - that's a 
> build issue, but should make the "ant run" go much faster.
> 
> ------------------
> I've added a modification to the MakeKars task that gets run when Kepler 
> starts up.  Because the startup is so slow at the moment it is nice to 
> only start Kepler with a minimal set of actors.  This modification lets 
> you specify which actors you want to use.  The fewer you specify the 
> faster the startup time.
> 
> Here is how it works:
> 
> Create a file in the project root (at the same level as all the module 
> directories)
> called "devKars".
> 
> On each line of the file put the name of a KAR you want to load into 
> Kepler.
> 
> For example:
> 
> SDFDirector
> Constant
> Display
> RExpression
> 
> Only the actors in the list will get Kars generated for them and only 
> those kars will be read in and cached by Kepler.
> 
> For development, it's nice...
> 
> Aaron