ci: Use another module for Gradle, try to improve build times

.github/workflows/test-branch.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ jobs:
             with:
                 java-version: '17'
                 distribution: 'temurin'
-                cache: 'gradle'
+
+        -   name: Set up Gradle 📦
+            uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+            with:
+                cache-read-only: true
 
         -   name: Compile parsers 🚀
             run: ./gradlew compileKotlin

.github/workflows/test-parsers.yml

@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ jobs:
             with:
                     java-version: '17'
                     distribution: 'temurin'
-                    cache: 'gradle'
+
+        -   name: Set up Gradle 📦
+            uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4
+            with:
+                cache-read-only: true
 
         -   name: Compile parsers 🚀
             run: ./gradlew compileKotlin

gradle.properties

@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
+# Following this blog:
+# https://proandroiddev.com/how-we-reduced-our-gradle-build-times-by-over-80-51f2b6d6b05b
 kotlin.code.style=official
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=4096m
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=4096m -XX:+UseParallelGC
+org.gradle.vfs.watch=true
+org.gradle.configureondemand=true
+org.gradle.parallel=true
+org.gradle.caching=true
+org.gradle.unsafe.configuration-cache=true