From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: 33643@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#33643] [PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in parallel.
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 16:06:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181206210653.GA909@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o99yo382.fsf@cbaines.net>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:38:21PM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> So, if -T was used to compress the data, then it sounds like it'll work
> to decompress it. I guess this adds a little more uncertainty to the
> benefit of this change, as the impact is dependent on the way the source
> data is compressed.
Right. When parallel decompression is implemented, I think we should
enable it in order to get some benefit from upstream tarballs that may
have been created with multi-threaded compression.
However, we probably won't be able to use the parallel compression
within Guix because it is apparently not deterministic:
<https://bugs.gnu.org/31015>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-06 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-06 7:56 [bug#33643] [PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in parallel Christopher Baines
2018-12-06 8:08 ` Christopher Baines
2018-12-06 8:13 ` Leo Famulari
2018-12-06 19:38 ` Christopher Baines
2018-12-06 21:06 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2018-12-09 14:32 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-12-10 16:24 ` Leo Famulari
2018-12-10 18:48 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-13 18:20 ` Christopher Baines
2020-05-13 19:07 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-14 7:37 ` bug#33643: " Christopher Baines
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