Re: taskdef defined in project or target

Generally speaking, one does not care about the memory usage of Ant unless you're working with a task that
gets repeated a LOT.

Just out of interest, I tried the two scenarios whilst tracing the class loader. Yes in the case where the
taskef is inside a target, the class gets loaded later. But since the initialisation of that task is done
regardless, I cannot see this making a performance difference or memory difference. That is; unless your
task spawns a new thread that is constantly churning.

Regards, Simon

On 17/05/2012, at 6:15 AM, "Perrier, Nathan" <nperrier <at> ptc.com> wrote:

> If I defined a <taskdef> for a custom task at the project-level (outside
> of a macro or target), does that consume a significant amount of memory?
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> Would defining <taskdef> in a target and have the targets that use it
> depend on it (thus, the taskdef init would only run when the target
> runs) be a better optimization?
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> Thanks,
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> -Nathan
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