Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Because for each pair of generations, it shows the corresponding news > entries (as per ‘guix pull --news’), and that part is quite expensive > because it involves a Git log traversal. > > I think we should (1) optimize the news code (that’s > ‘channel-news-for-commit’), and (2) if that’s not enough consider > keeping it off by default in ‘guix pull --list-generations’.
That turned out to be easier than I thought, see <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/78432>, which makes it 10–20x faster. Ludo’.
