title: Speeding up the dex process with jar files, is it possible?
body: <p>I have an "older" machine which is more than adequate for developing my first Android marketplace application BUT only with Java!</p>
  
  <p>I recently tried <em>Kawa</em> and <em>Scala</em> (I switch to functional programming about six years ago with LISP/Scheme and I've absorbed Erlang and Haskell since then) and I must say that I really love Scalas conciseness and Kawa is <em>still</em> fantastic (used it a long time ago for a project).</p>
  
  <p>However... the build time when "dexing" on my machine is into the minutes(!) when the 'dx' program works on the kawa.jar file.</p>
  
  <p>Does anybody know if it is possible to "cache" or "pre-build" a Jar file so that the desxing process only does what has changed. It is just a little irritating and sad to see it dexing the jar files I've used even though they are the same as last time.</p>
  
  <p>I could buy a faster new machine but I don't have the spare dosh right now so I want to know what optimisations I could make...
  :(
  Thanks.</p>