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Very slow `sbt update` on multi-module projects

See original GitHub issue

Same issue in sbt tracker: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/5508

sbt update with coursier takes 35+ seconds on this project with 20+ modules - https://github.com/jtjeferreira/sbt-multi-module-sample

Personally I’m experiencing sbt update taking 4-5 Minutes on a 150+ module sbt project, update takes 3x more time than actually compiling said project

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:26 (21 by maintainers)

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craffitcommented, May 24, 2022

I’m looking at a slow multi-module sbt update (~130s in my case).

This change gave some improvements in my case: https://github.com/coursier/coursier/pull/2420 (more info in the PR)

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jtjeferreiracommented, Nov 20, 2020

@oyvindberg fantastic work, this reduced update from 30s to 10s in my work project. I will update the sample project with new results and try to find where other bottlenecks might be…

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