From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: Parallel downloads Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 19:01:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87pnid3qdh.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87k18kyjlm.fsf@nckx> <87wock97ye.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53282) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQEl9-0006pm-LP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:01:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQEl8-00086l-KR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:01:23 -0400 Received: from mail-qt1-x836.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::836]:35956) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQEl8-000869-Ge for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:01:22 -0400 Received: by mail-qt1-x836.google.com with SMTP id y10so2941820qto.3 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:01:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wock97ye.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: Guix Devel Hi Pierre, Maybe you would like an concurrent output in this spirit: https://joeyh.name/code/concurrent-output/ Right? However, I am not sure that parallel downloads drastically change the performance (bottleneck) because first often it is not linear and second it strongly depends on the available bandwidth. All the best, simon