Improve build speed by altering gradle.properties (#1091)

* build: improve build speed via gradle properties

* ci: avoid build optimizations on release build

Author: fractalwrench

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ jobs:
           java-version: 17
 
       - name: Build and publish artifacts
-        run: ./gradlew publishToSonatype closeAndReleaseSonatypeStagingRepository -Pfinal=true
+        run: ./gradlew publishToSonatype closeAndReleaseSonatypeStagingRepository -Pfinal=true --no-build-cache --no-configuration-cache --no-parallel
         env:
           SONATYPE_USER: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_USER }}
           SONATYPE_KEY: ${{ secrets.SONATYPE_KEY }}

gradle.properties

@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@
 # http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/build_environment.html
 # Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.
 # The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096M -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2g -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dkotlin.daemon.jvm.options\="-Xmx4096M"
+org.gradle.parallel=true
+org.gradle.caching=true
+org.gradle.configuration-cache=true
+org.gradle.configuration-cache.problems=fail
+org.gradle.configuration-cache.parallel=true
 # When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.
 # This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit
 # http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:decoupled_projects