[CASSANDRA-16583] Dont fork jvms in the build

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-rc1, 4.0
• Component/s: Build
• Change Category: Performance
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/6cc730d689a7625554054e558238042bea502c46

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• Assignee: Michael Semb Wever
• Reporter: Michael Semb Wever

Authors

Michael Semb Wever

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 09/Apr/21 11:02
• Updated: 06/Jul/22 19:37
• Resolved: 09/Apr/21 15:29

Description

Most developer and build machines have more than 1GB RAM now-a-days. The need to fork to specify `-Xmx512m` is redundant.

Removing the fork flags removes >25% of the build time.

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-16557 (3.0,3.11) Migrate dependency handling from maven-ant-tasks to resolver-ant-tasks