https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/author/amanda-martin/Articles written by Amanda Martin on foojay.io - Friends of OpenJDKHugoen-usTue, 13 Dec 2022 15:35:31 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/compilation-avoidance-with-gradle/Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:35:31 +0000https://foojayio.github.io/website/today/compilation-avoidance-with-gradle/<p>We at Gradle recently noticed some community chatter about speeding up Gradle compilation on the JVM by ignoring changes not affecting the application binary interface (ABIs) of dependencies.</p> <p>What a great idea! In fact, Gradle has used ABIs for Java out of the box for this without any extra configuration <a href="https://blog.gradle.org/incremental-compiler-avoidance" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">since version 3.4</a> .</p> <p>We refer to this feature as <strong><a href="https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_plugin.html#sec:java_compile_avoidance" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">compilation avoidance</a> </strong>.</p> <p>This post explains what ABI-based compilation means for the average workflow. Spoiler: utilizing compilation avoidance is one of the best performance enhancements for any build.</p>