From: "Nicolò Balzarotti" <anothersms@gmail.com>
To: Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net>,
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: When substitute download + decompression is CPU-bound
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 12:55:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtwsarfg.fsf@guixSD.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kj0x9yv.fsf@yamatai>
Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> writes:
> Here are a few numbers for the installation time in seconds (download
> time + decompression time) when fetching 580 MB of substitutes for
> download speeds between 0.5 MB/s and 20 MB/s.
Which hardware did you use? Since you are fixing the download speed,
those results really depend on cpu speed.
> As Gzip is never the best choice, it would make sense to drop it, even
> if we have to wait a little until everyone has updated their Guix daemon
My hypothesis is that this won't be the case on something slow like the
raspberry pi 1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-29 12:34 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
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 [this message]
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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