From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "yarnton--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Speeding up guix?
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 12:33:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201103173334.GB27292@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MLAbWb7--3-2@tutanota.com>
On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 01:59:56AM +0100, yarnton--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote:
> A slightly annoying aspect of Guix that IMHO should be improved is download speed. I haven't inspected any code, but it seems to me that Guix is reopening a connection for downloading every item? If so, that's a bit wasteful, and makes things unnecessarily slow even with a good connection.
This is indeed a big source of slowness while using Guix, and it has
been discussed previously:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-11/msg00226.html
It seems like we discuss it every November!
We just need someone to lead the work to improve it :)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-03 17:38 UTC|newest]
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.
2020-11-03 17:37 ` Leo Famulari
2020-11-03 18:46 ` zimoun
2020-11-03 17:33 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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