Ludovic Courtès skribis: > This patch series goes on top of . > It addresses the performance issue described at: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-09/msg00073.html > > Specifically, it implements option #4 (spawning ‘guix authenticate’ > once for the whole session, instead of spawning it every time a > store item needs to be signed or authenticated), achieving a ~15x > speedup, which is not bad. :-) Below is the new Gantt chart for: perf timechart record guix archive --export -r $(guix build coreutils -d) -v3 >/tmp/dump Most of the work happens in ‘guix authenticate’.