mirror of
git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix/guix-artwork.git
synced 2023-12-14 05:33:02 +01:00
website: faster-substitutes: Tweak.
* website/drafts/faster-substitutes.md: Change title; tweak.
This commit is contained in:
parent
c0031176f5
commit
ef14085fa2
1 changed files with 14 additions and 10 deletions
|
@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
|
|||
title: Towards faster substitutes
|
||||
date: 2021-03-25 13:00
|
||||
title: Getting bytes to disk more quickly
|
||||
date: 2021-03-26 14:00
|
||||
author: Ludovic Courtès
|
||||
tags: Reproducible builds, Scheme API
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
@ -14,16 +14,20 @@ Guix System for the first time.
|
|||
With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that Michael
|
||||
Stapelberg’s [excellent 2020 Arch Linux Conference
|
||||
talk](https://media.ccc.de/v/arch-conf-online-2020-6387-distri-researching-fast-linux-package-management)
|
||||
and the installation speed achieved with distri were a great motivation
|
||||
and the installation speed achieved by distri were a great motivation
|
||||
boost. Michael proposes radical ideas to speed up package installation,
|
||||
such as downloading and mounting ready-to-use SquashFS images. This
|
||||
cannot be transposed to Guix as-is, but it certainly got us thinking.
|
||||
such as downloading and mounting ready-to-use SquashFS images. Not
|
||||
everything can be transposed to Guix as-is, but it certainly got us
|
||||
thinking.
|
||||
|
||||
This article dives into improvements made over the last few months and
|
||||
that will be in the upcoming 1.2.1 release; they all contribute to
|
||||
making substitute download and installation “faster”. This is an
|
||||
evolution of the existing mechanisms rather than a revolution, but one
|
||||
that users will surely welcome.
|
||||
This article dives into improvements made over the last few months that
|
||||
will be in the upcoming 1.2.1 release, and which are already [one `guix
|
||||
pull`
|
||||
away](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Upgrading-Guix.html);
|
||||
they all contribute to making [substitute
|
||||
download](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html) and
|
||||
installation “faster”. This is an evolution of the existing mechanisms
|
||||
rather than a revolution, but one that users will surely welcome.
|
||||
|
||||
# Reducing latency
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
Loading…
Reference in a new issue