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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, yarnton@tutanota.com
Subject: Re: Speeding up guix?
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 14:58:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9emczjp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0v2vgoy.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:10:53 +0100")

Hi,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> There has been discussion about this in the past:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00694.html
>
> Browse the thread, pipelining and reuse of connections are discussed.
>
> Julien did work on a patch regarding downloads (if I recall correctly it
> was to enable parallel downloads), I believe it's still hanging
> somewhere in the bug tracker.

Yes, it’s one of the many patches waiting for feedback:  :-)

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39728

I contemplated another way to improve on download speeds, by spawning a
single ‘guix substitute’ process and thus potentially reusing
connections, but it’s trickier than it seems.

Ludo’.

PS to yarnton: Note that Nix would also have to catch up on some
  features: grafts, authenticated checkouts, reduced binary seeds, etc.
  ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-03 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-03  0:59 Speeding up guix? yarnton--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2020-11-03 11:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-11-03 13:58   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-11-03 16:51     ` yarnton--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2020-11-03 17:37       ` Leo Famulari
2020-11-03 18:46         ` zimoun
2020-11-03 17:33 ` Leo Famulari

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