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From: "Nicolò Balzarotti" <anothersms@gmail.com>
To: "Pierre Neidhardt" <mail@ambrevar.xyz>,
	"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: When substitute download + decompression is CPU-bound
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:03:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0tjo085.fsf@guixSD.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im93bdj1.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

>
> What do you mean?
>
If you download multiple files at a time, you might end up decompressing
them simultaneously.  Plzip won't help then on a dual core machine,
where you might end up being cpu bound again then. Is this right?

If it is, reducing the overall cpu usage seems to be a better approach
in the long term.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-15 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-14 22:20 When substitute download + decompression is CPU-bound Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-14 22:29 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-12-14 22:59 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-12-15  7:52   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-15  9:45     ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-12-15  9:54       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-15 10:03         ` Nicolò Balzarotti [this message]
2020-12-15 10:13           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-15 10:14             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-15 11:42     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-15 12:31       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-18 14:59         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-18 15:33           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-12-15 11:36   ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-15 11:45     ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2020-12-15 10:40 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-12-15 19:43   ` Joshua Branson
2021-01-07 10:45     ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2021-01-07 11:00       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2021-01-07 11:33         ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2021-01-14 21:51       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-14 22:08         ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2021-01-28 17:53           ` Are gzip-compressed substitutes still used? Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-17 17:12             ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-17 17:33               ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-17 18:08                 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-03-18  0:03                   ` zimoun
2021-03-18 16:00                     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-03-18 18:53                       ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-20 11:23                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-17 18:06               ` zimoun
2021-03-17 18:20               ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2021-03-18 17:25               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2021-01-15  8:10         ` When substitute download + decompression is CPU-bound Pierre Neidhardt
2021-01-28 17:58           ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-29  9:45             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2021-01-29 11:23               ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2021-01-29 11:55                 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2021-01-29 12:13                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2021-01-29 13:06                     ` Guillaume Le Vaillant
2021-01-29 14:55                     ` Nicolò Balzarotti
2021-02-01 22:18                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-29 13:33             ` zimoun

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