I love the new incremental Java compile in IDEA 12.0 but there seems to be a price to pay. Making now takes about twice as long as in 11.x, most of the time appearing to be spent
Executing DEX
(according to the status bar).
I can take a 12.0 project, revert to 11.x and making is back to "normal speed" (approx 4 minutes vs 30 seconds).
I don't get this. AFAIK, IDEA (or Eclipse or any other IDE) is just shelling out to dx.jar to compile the Dalvik executable. If there was a problem with the ADT, it would affect 11.x equally.
OS is Win 7 Ultimate. 3.2GHz quad core with 16GB but I suspect that the issue is not related to OS or PC since 11.x is OK.
Any ideas? I'll log a bug with Jetbrains but wanted to see if anyone has more concrete info or workarounds? There's nothing so far on the Jetbrains bug tracker or fora that I can find.