# Dependency resolution takes huge amount of time

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**Created:** [May 10, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/dependency-resolution-takes-huge-amount-of-time/2152 "2013-05-10T01:35:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/dependency-resolution-takes-huge-amount-of-time/2152/2 "2013-05-10T04:35:00Z")

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One reason is that Maven supports parallel dependency resolution, which is currently a feature request [GRADLE-2582](http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2582)).

If you have many dependencies then it becomes worthwhile having an on-site artifact repository. That provides a caching proxy and minimizes disruptions if the remote repository disappears. I have gradle fetch only from local Artifactory, which has all of the remote repositories proxied. The builds went from 15 minutes to 30 seconds. Slow dependency downloading became a non-issue at that point.

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