From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Parallel downloads Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:50:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87d0e93tgj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pnid3qdh.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <86lfsz52sx.fsf@dismail.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39270) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iRHCh-0005Qw-2v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:50:08 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41505) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iRHCg-00082W-Vd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:50:07 -0500 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=52876 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iRHCg-0004d4-9q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:50:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86lfsz52sx.fsf@dismail.de> (Joshua Branson's message of "Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:06:06 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Joshua Branson skribis: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any plan to support parallel downloads? Currently downloads ar= e a >> bottleneck for `guix install / upgrade`, parallel downloads could reduce >> the operation duration by an order of magnitude. > > On a related note, would getting guix to download substitutes via IPFS > mean that one could update one's system faster?=20 Potentially! For that I encourage people to pick up the work on and to start experimenting with substitutes on IPFS. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.