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Reducing Rails asset precompile times on JRuby

Rails asset precompile times on JRuby are considerably slower compared to MRI. I came across this post which provided suggestions on speeding up the asset precompile task.

Using the following options – using Node.js instead of therubyrhino for JS compilation, forcing the JVM to 32 bit (although this can be omitted on a 32 bit JVM) and not using JIT compilation – cut my asset precompile time from 4 mins 37 secs to 2 mins 8 secs. Using Node.js contributed to the majority of that time since I’m using a 32 bit VM.

EXECJS_RUNTIME='Node' JRUBY_OPTS="-J-d32 -X-C" rake assets:precompile

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3 responses to “Reducing Rails asset precompile times on JRuby”

  1. Artur Avatar
    Artur

    Thank you for this tip. On 64bit system compilation time changed from 164 sec to 34 sec! :)

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  2. Jonathan O'Connor Avatar
    Jonathan O’Connor

    In tests we did recently, our precompile times went down from 15 minutes to a minute when we set config.assets.compress to false. As we don’t have a lot of javascript, this is ok, especially as we can use the already minified versions of jQuery and the other libraries we use.

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  3. Za Avatar
    Za

    Thanks for this. Our assets precompile on our 64-bit machine was halved.

    EXECJS_RUNTIME='Node' JRUBY_OPTS="-J-d32 -X-C" bundle exec rake assets:precompile
    122.81s user 7.20s system 113% cpu 1:54.95 total

    bundle exec rake assets:precompile
    470.95s user 9.90s system 178% cpu 4:28.80 total

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