# Faster builds with Gradle Caching

**URL:** <https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/faster-builds-with-gradle-caching/779>\
**Category:** Tutorials\
**Created:** [August 6, 2026, 8:12am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/faster-builds-with-gradle-caching/779 "2026-08-06T08:12:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![abe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openrndr.discourse.group/abe/32/700_2.png) [@abe](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/abe)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2026, 8:12am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/faster-builds-with-gradle-caching/779/1 "2026-08-06T08:12:31Z")

</div>

A short one:

if you’re using the `next-version` branch of the `openrndr-template`, try opening `gradle.properties` and uncomment these two lines:

```gradle
org.gradle.configuration-cache=true
org.gradle.configuration-cache.parallel=true

```

When I do that build times go down to about 1 second in my laptop.  
Does it also improve yours?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Alessandro](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openrndr.discourse.group/alessandro/32/412_2.png) [@Alessandro](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/Alessandro)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/faster-builds-with-gradle-caching/779/2 "2026-08-07T15:30:06Z")

</div>

It seems indeed to be faster (excluding GPU data transfer time).