l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > I was already motivated to create the database directly from Scheme > (‘man-db’ is quite slow), so that gave me an additional excuse. ;-)
FWIW, on my profile with 237 packages corresponding to 19,122 man pages, on a warm cache, (guix man-db) takes ~8 seconds whereas the previous method (invoking ‘man-db’) takes ~26 seconds. My guess is that the main difference is due to not forking a gzip process for each man page. Ludo’.
