> Compiling the whole whois-common takes about 2 seconds.

In our case, our machines don't have SSDs, so this can be up to 30 seconds, and that is frustrating when you just want to rerun a test from IntelliJ.

> I don't see much benefit in optimizing this script over and over.

Previous patches were because failures in this script were not exposed to maven and were causing build failures for us further down the line.

These patches are about saving us some time.

The fact that there are several patches in this branch was more accidental... Both Tom and I took slightly different approaches, and I didn't squash the changesets when I created the branch.