I tried and * commons took more than 2,5 minutes to build (they show 70s?) * tried their tests (medium project, https://github.com/gradle/performance-comparisons/tree/maste...) and maven compiled it in 4s and usual "clean install" took 14s but they don't enable paralel test run); then I tried running "gradle build" and... got an error:

``` FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where: Build file '/Users/wojtek/dev/tmps/performance-comparisons/single-medium-project/build.gradle' line: 16

* What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'single-medium-project'. > Could not find method compile() for arguments [commons-lang:commons-lang:2.5] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler. ```

It's so nice that even gradle team themselves can keep up with their crap xD but of course it's probably due to convoluted setup... again - with maven you just clone and build and be done with it, with gradle you have to "stand on your head" to figure how to make any progress... I updated the build.gradle (according to https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/declaring_dependen...) and `gradle build` finished in 19s...

So your beloved gradle is 25% slower and can't even be compatible with itself...

I took a look at "large-multimodule" to have something more challenging but: they setup each project individually and for some convoluted reason configure maven compiler with `<source>1.5</source>` (and JDK21 complains) and same goes for gradle modules with broken `dependencies`. I adjusted it but then it turned out that the sources can't even compile (due to wrong arguments in tests) ffs...