With an empty workflow, this is the result of `drake --version`.
$ time drake --version
Drake Version 0.1.0
Target not found: ...
drake --version 5.42s user 0.18s system 188% cpu 2.969 total
For short scripts that you should be running in the shell, this is really bad. I expect basic make commands on small projects to be effectively instant. Compilation might take a bit longer, but 5.4s to print the version points to a 5s overhead on all executions.
I'm guessing this is due to the JVM overhead, so that pretty much says this project isn't suited to the JVM. The JVM is great for long running processes, and applications where the overhead is a very small percentage of the total running time, but if it takes 5s longer than `make` to print it's version, that's really not a good sign.
This is a fantastic idea, and I will definitely be using it. But this overhead needs fixing.
I'm guessing this is due to the JVM overhead, so that pretty much says this project isn't suited to the JVM. The JVM is great for long running processes, and applications where the overhead is a very small percentage of the total running time, but if it takes 5s longer than `make` to print it's version, that's really not a good sign.
This is a fantastic idea, and I will definitely be using it. But this overhead needs fixing.