Joe,
Our experience is the same. Our stats are as follows:
273 Scala sources, 706 Java sources, 76s to compile (quad-core i7, 8 GB
RAM).
Regarding StackOverflow, the workaround is to increase the JVM max stack
size in the Play build file (under play directory it is /framework/build).
In fact, we have increased all of our memory settings to run incremental compiles
and unit tests more smoothly. Here are our settings:
-Xms1024M -Xmx4096M -Xss2M -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024M
Regarding research, we hired a Scala/sbt consultant to do some analysis for
us. It turns out that the most significant contributor to compile time is
the Scala templates. There are two factors at play: 1) each template takes
a long time to compile; and, 2) sbt is aggressive about what to recompile,
so a lot of templates get recompiled during incremental recompiles.
As for solutions, we have seriously considered moving our templates to
Japid42. I am also curious to see how the latest scala/sbt/Play versions
will affect compile times.
When we get the time, I plan to publish our analysis for the community's
benefit. I'd like to see some real plans to improve compile time since it
is our largest productivity drain. The path forward sounds like either 1)
the community (and Typesafe) adopts Japid42 as a de facto standard, or 2)
the existing templating system is somehow improved (if at all possible).
Sean
On Sunday, November 11, 2012 3:05:51 AM UTC-8, Joe Wyrembelski wrote:
> *Summary: *The time it takes to compile our app is almost intolerable and
> we're looking for a solution.
> My application is currently a single module project (default Java app
> structure) and when executing 'play clean compile' compiling currently says
> 180 Scala sources and 230 Java sources. The compile time got so bad, I
> went out and bought a much faster machine and the compile time is holding
> steady at 41s. (My partner's machine is 80+ seconds.)
> While the time to compile is pretty bad, we're living with it. The real
> problem here is that recently we've started seeing a Stack Overflow
> Exception thrown from time to time during reload or from a fresh compile.
> This is a bit alarming, but when we compile without seeing that problem
> everything seems to work great.
> *Research: *From all I've read, it seems that the problem lies with routes
> compilation bug<https://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/82401/tickets/693-improvement...> but
> unless you want to switch to a different template engine (japid42?) you're
> stuck waiting for the bug to be resolved. There are also threads that
> suggest the problem is in the hierarchies used in the project (model
> classes that extend a base model class; controllers that extend a base
> controller; etc.).
> *Possible Solutions:*
> - Split the project into separate projects (say we have three 'areas'
> of the app, we'd create three separate play applications with a common
> model library. The assumption would be that we could get to having 1/3 of
> the compile time for each.)
> - Reorganize the project to use sub-projects (documentation link here<http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0.4/SBTSubProjects>).
> I'm not finding anything that suggests this would actually improve our
> situation. I'm also not finding anything that suggests what a good
> reorganization would be.
> *Request for help:*
> Some validation of my assumptions would be very helpful. I haven't been
> able to find anyone here with a similar StackOverflowException during
> compile time (mostly due to the fact that searching on StackOverflow almost
> always finds the popular website with the same name). I'd *really* like to
> see some discussion about splitting the project into either side-by-side
> (separated) projects or sub-projects.
> Thanks in advance
