From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How/When will guix pull stop to compile the 616 files?
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 10:08:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d185noxu.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1708081628270.878@bog.hcoop.net>
Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us> writes:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>
>>
>> Paul Dufresne <dufresnep@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> It takes 45 mins. on my relatively old dual core to guix-pull
>>
>> Yeah, this isn’t great. Since 0.13.0 compilation is slower and requires
>> a whole lot more memory. That’s a known problem.
>>
>> There are some ideas to reduce the amount of compilation that has to
>> happen locally, but it isn’t quite as simple as a first look may
>> suggest.
>
> Could building be avoided entirely with substitutes? Are substitutes not
> appropriate for some reason, or is it just that substitutes are not
> produced on Hydra for every guix commit?
Before a substitute can be requested, Guix will have to compute a
derivation locally. In the case of Guix itself this is rather
expensive.
Once we have the derivation we can ask substitute servers if they have a
binary substitute for performing the work the derivation describes.
So, local *computation* cannot be avoided, but local building should be
avoidable for most packages — here the problem is that hydra isn’t fast
enough yet. I’ve been preparing an alternative build farm at the
institute where I work, which will hopefully soon be powerful enough to
build packages more quickly than our current Hydra does.
--
Ricardo
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-08 0:59 How/When will guix pull stop to compile the 616 files? Paul Dufresne
2017-08-08 1:43 ` Paul Dufresne
2017-08-08 7:50 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-08-08 13:02 ` Paul Dufresne
2017-08-08 20:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-08-08 20:39 ` Jack Hill
2017-08-09 5:43 ` Paul Dufresne
2017-08-09 8:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-08-09 13:41 ` Jack Hill
2017-08-13 3:21 ` Quiliro Ordonez Baca
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