From: yarnton--- via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Speeding up guix?
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 17:51:49 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MLE0OKQ--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9emczjp.fsf@gnu.org>
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> 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.
>
Can I help testing this patch?
> PS to yarnton: Note that Nix would also have to catch up on some
> features: grafts, authenticated checkouts, reduced binary seeds, etc.
> ;-)
>
I know! That's why I'm trying to migrate to GuixSD. And I say this as a maintainer of a dozen packages in NixPkgs.
Another big motivation is that Guix packages are cleaner and well tested. Nix has quite a few things that are half broken. I've fixed some that I use myself, but it's too much work to get it all sorted.
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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
2020-11-03 16:51 ` yarnton--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2020-11-03 17:37 ` Leo Famulari
2020-11-03 18:46 ` zimoun
2020-11-03 17:33 ` Leo Famulari
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