Re: Can we speed it up? Prev: compiling guix is too slow?

2018-02-05 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 10:56:54AM +0100, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Pjotr Prins writes: > > >> I wonder if anyone has analyzed the dependency graphs of software > >> packages (not necessarily for Guix, some big distribution like > >> Debian would be more interesting),

Re: Can we speed it up? Prev: compiling guix is too slow?

2018-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > What will it be like with 15K packages? We will get there. We can > actually try it now by doubling the package tree - anyone wants to try > and create a simulation? I.e., not just double the tree, make sure > there are cross references between

Re: Can we speed it up? Prev: compiling guix is too slow?

2018-02-05 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Pjotr Prins writes: >> I wonder if anyone has analyzed the dependency graphs of software >> packages (not necessarily for Guix, some big distribution like >> Debian would be more interesting), with the goal if identifying good >> splits based on simple criteria. > >

Re: Can we speed it up? Prev: compiling guix is too slow?

2018-02-05 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:15:37AM +0100, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > On 05/02/2018 08:34, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > >compiled yet). Or generate a meta list for a source tree. Or > >subcategorize packages so only those packages get included that are > >asked for (assuming there are no deeper

Re: Can we speed it up? Prev: compiling guix is too slow?

2018-02-05 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 05/02/2018 08:34, Pjotr Prins wrote: compiled yet). Or generate a meta list for a source tree. Or subcategorize packages so only those packages get included that are asked for (assuming there are no deeper dependencies). For example, few people need the bioinformatics packages. We could have

Can we speed it up? Prev: compiling guix is too slow?

2018-02-04 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:49:52PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > "Feng Shu" writes: > > > Now I have found that 'guix pull' is too slow, > > I need 3 hours to compile guix, is it possible to speed it ? > > 3 hours is longer than it usually takes on my Lenovo X200 laptop with 2