Slow Configuration phase for Groovy project

The Configuration phase for the Groovy project takes about 70% of the overall time. Even the upgrade from Gradle 1.6 to 1.7-rc2 reduced the time only a bit.

Running “gradle tasks” has this profile:

Description

Duration

Total Build Time

20.741s

Startup

0.740s

Settings and BuildSrc

0.287s

Loading Projects

0.049s

Configuring Projects

16.506s

Task Execution

3.215s

Any ideas how this could be improved?



Gradle 1.7-rc-2


Build time:

2013-07-29 12:04:21 UTC

Build number: none

Revision:

9a7199efaf72c620b33f9767874f0ebced135d83

Groovy:

1.8.6

Ant:

Apache Ant™ version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012

Ivy:

2.2.0

JVM:

1.7.0_25 (Oracle Corporation 23.25-b01)

OS:

Linux 3.8.0-27-generic amd64

I found it. It’s the asciidoctor-gradle-plugin.

A fix is already prepared.