diff --git a/website/drafts/faster-substitutes.md b/website/drafts/faster-substitutes.md index 7b67604..32cc689 100644 --- a/website/drafts/faster-substitutes.md +++ b/website/drafts/faster-substitutes.md @@ -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