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Resolved How to shorten compilation time for a specific PBL?

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  1. Jeong Dae Ryong
    Jeong Dae Ryong
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  3. Friday, 2 February 2024 07:05 AM UTC

There are about 70 libraries.

Even when compiling only one specific PBL,

It takes too long.

Is there any way to shorten the time?

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John Fauss
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  1. Monday, 5 February 2024 00:50 AM UTC
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In addition to Armeen's very important questions, I have additional ones:

What is "too long"... Can you please quantify this extremely loose and subjective term?

Can you describe in general terms how the objects are organized/grouped into the 70 libraries? Is there a schema or plan in place, does a developer place any object in any library he/she chooses, or something in between?

Has your app been developed with a framework of any kind? If so, which?

Do you use a dedicated "build" machine? Physical or virtual? What CPU and # of cores? How much physical memory? Does it use solid state drive(s) (SSD's)?

How critical is it that you lessen the build time? Are you willing to try non-free 3rd-party products to see if it would provide significant improvement?

How often are you required to perform a full build?

Are you willing to try reorganizing the objects or have you already tried to reorganize the objects differently to improve build and/or execution performance?

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Monday, 5 February 2024 09:37 AM UTC
In addition, which version of powerbuilder are you using?

regards
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
Armeen Mazda @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Sunday, 4 February 2024 19:50 PM UTC
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How long is it taking?

What is the filesize of the PBL?

Have you performed an "optimize" on the PBL?

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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Monday, 5 February 2024 23:26 PM UTC
That doesn't sound normal. Have you tried testing doing compile on a different machine? Have you considered suggestions by John and Andreas?
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Jeong Dae Ryong
  1. Jeong Dae Ryong
  2. Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:45 AM UTC
Does this mean that compilation time will never take this much?

The source is on the local drive. The anti-virus software opens the source folder.

It is set as a scan exception.

And my computer specifications are by no means bad.



Because of compilation speed, I used the solution from the topwiz site.

I tried compiling individual PBLs because it was faster.

There is no problem when running it from the source, but when running it from an executable file,

There was an error, so I regenerated the related pbl and compiled it.

There will be no errors if you upload it.
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Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  1. Armeen Mazda @Appeon
  2. Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:45 PM UTC
I have not heard any other customer say it takes this long to compile such a small PBL file. 3MB PBL file is not big and should not take so long. If you can, open a support ticket and upload one of your PBLs we will test in our environment how long it takes to compile.
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Andreas Mykonios
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  1. Monday, 5 February 2024 07:07 AM UTC
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Hi.

Another question. Are compiling on a local drive or on a network location? Do you have an antivirus running? If yes, it's set to check all files or only those loaded for execution?

Andreas.

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