Hi Andreas, On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 at 12:43, Andreas Reuleaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes, this does make sense, and many thanks for writing this down in > detail. - I will follow your steps (and develop my own routine). Cool if it helps. :-) > And computers are getting faster after all (to some extent still): My > 53sec for pulling were on an 4 core i5 (with 16G RAM) - this e-mail I am > writing on a 8 core i7 w/ 16G RAM as well - and I might want use it for > guix at some point (and that should accelerate things then). Yeah, some actions are CPU-bound but other are I/O-bound. For instance “writing package cache” is acceptable on modern storage, a bit slower on SSD, and… wait for it… too slow on spinning disks. :-) Cheers, simon
