title: Using multiple cores/processors when compiling Java
body: <p>I use a desktop with eight cores to build a Java application using Ant (through a javac target).  Is there a way to speed up the compilation by using more than one thread or process?</p>
  
  <p>I know I can run several Ant tasks in parallel, but I don't think this can be applied to a single compilation target, or does it?</p>