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Subject: bug#29654: Manual database index.db embeds timestamps
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:54:06 +0100
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> I was already motivated to create the database directly from Scheme
> (=E2=80=98man-db=E2=80=99 is quite slow), so that gave me an additional e=
xcuse.  ;-)

FWIW, on my profile with 237 packages corresponding to 19,122 man pages,
on a warm cache, (guix man-db) takes ~8 seconds whereas the previous
method (invoking =E2=80=98man-db=E2=80=99) takes ~26 seconds.

My guess is that the main difference is due to not forking a gzip
process for each man page.

Ludo=E2=80=99.