Lambda repo now supports new build infrastructure

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

Mike,

On 2012-04-20 20:51, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Maurizio (who had a lot more work to do in this than I did) and I have done another merge into the lambda repo from the jdk8 master repo. Part of this merge is the new build infrastructure. (see<http://openjdk.java.net/projects/build-infra/guide.html>  for more info)
>
> A clean build of the entire lambda repo using the new build system is 23 minutes on my wimpy laptop compared to 1 hour 40 minutes with the old build system. Incremental rebuilds are also much, much faster.
>
> We're going to give the lambda repo a chance to settle and bake for a few days at least before generating a new binary build. In the meantime it's now easier (and faster) than ever to generate your own builds!

That's great news! I'm glad it worked out to be faster -- that's not 
even been the priority right now. :-)

I'm a bit curious, though, since the times differ so much: do you 
compare with a "make images" in the new system, or just a "make (all)"?

/Magnus