l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> [...] >>> >>> There’s also the option of not compiling (gnu packages *) and instead >>> evaluating them, but currently this is too costly in terms of memory >>> and CPU. >>> >>> [...] >> >> Can't we leave this to auto-compilation during normal use of guix? > > We’d have the same problem, only at a different point in time (it might > even be worse because auto-compilation would use -O2 instead of -O0.)
I've experimented a bit with --no-auto-compile (or lack of) and also realized that it doesn't bring much to the table. Evaluating (rather than auto-compiling) the modules is much faster and we need to properly compile those anyway if we are to properly ship a guix binary substitute. Maxim
