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Can you try https://googleplex-android-review.git.corp.google.com/c/platform/tools/base/+/19152690 to see how that improves the situation?

Note that it's not true that the reporting task should do almost no work; this is where filtering happens based on things like the actual minSdk and targetSdk levels, what's actually in the merged manifest coming from all libraries, what desugaring options have been enabled, etc.

But it shouldn't have initialized the UAST environment there; that's what my above CL fixes.

(I see you deleted the comment about caching. If there's no such problem and it's really about the UAST issue, you can reassign the issue from Scott to me.))

I'm not saying it's doing no work. The question is how fast the filtering should be.

I guess if we can make this task properly cacheable and up-to-date then the time taken to run matters less. Maybe this is what we should be focusing on instead?

(I see you deleted the comment about caching. If there's no such problem and it's really about the UAST issue, you can reassign the issue from Scott to me.))

I split that problem into a separate bug b/237813416

Can you try https://googleplex-android-review.git.corp.google.com/c/platform/tools/base/+/19152690 to see how that improves the situation?

I can test your patch, but I need to figure out how to do that.

To build AGP, in a tools checkout with my CL cherrypicked, ./gradlew pL -- which builds the repo in ../out/repo/ . Then you need to point AndroidX to it and that's your expertise :-) I know there are some envvars to point to extra repos. The version built in the tools repo will be 7.4.0-dev.

It looks like the task wiring issue has been filed as a separate issue (b/237813416); we'll use this one to track the unnecessary UAST initialization issue. That should be addressed by https://cs.android.com/android-studio/platform/tools/base/+/8665f2647d1d9eb041b336e5bc0288efdd0d03c3 .