[bug#36630] [PATCH] guix: parallelize building the manual-database

[Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>]

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Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> writes:
>> Right, sorry for being unclear: you need to run
>>
>>   ./pre-inst-env guix environment -n …
>>
>> That will run you modified code and thus create a manual-database.drv
>> that uses your code; it’s this manual-database.drv that you should pass
>> to ‘guix build’.
>
> That works now — thank you!
…
> With the change:
> 185552 entries processed in 108.2 s
> Before the change:
> 185552 entries processed in 220.1 s
>
> The exact commands I’m running:
> cd Dokumente/Guix/guix
> git checkout master # with the change
> ./pre-inst-env guix environment --ad-hoc jupyter python-ipython python-ipykernel -n
> time guix build /gnu/...-manual-database.drv
> git checkout 97bf46e64c11c64a968fdb833983ede6bdafbc00
> ./pre-inst-env guix environment --ad-hoc jupyter python-ipython python-ipykernel -n
> time guix build /gnu/...-manual-database.drv

I now reduced the thread count to exactly 2 (to avoid running into
resource troubles; I hope that two should be safe) and added a mutex for
status messages to ensure that writes don’t overlap.

The patch should arrive shortly.

Best wishes,
Arne
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