Re: Is it possible to change build/ and dist/ directories from within NB?

2024-11-05 Thread Thomas Wolf
Hi Michael, You're right - I'm not seeing much speed improvement on my 2021 MBP. But I think it's still a worthwhile change since it still helps in terms of preventing SSD wear and tear (or is that also no longer a thing with NVMe?). After I posted, I found what I wanted do was pretty easy - m

Re: Is it possible to change build/ and dist/ directories from within NB?

2024-11-05 Thread Michael Bien
Hi Thomas, I use ram disks quite often on linux, expectation wise: if you already have a NVMe drive you will rarely see any noteworthy speedup. So I use them for tasks i would have typically used /tmp before. For example a clone/build/run script for PR reviews. The advantage there is that ra

Is it possible to change build/ and dist/ directories from within NB?

2024-11-05 Thread Thomas Wolf
Hi, macOS makes it really easy to create a RAM disk, so I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of build speed improvements I'd see by letting Netbeans use it for its build artifacts - i.e. the build/ and dist/ directories within a Netbeans project directory. Is there a way to do thi