Hi zimoun, zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> skribis:
> Your machine is probably faster than mine ;-) For the record, commit 94aeec0aef03ab44e41bfc3e77c3b623cb3d607c, shortly before 1.0, make ‘guix search’ faster (as in less CPU usage.) > $ time guix package --search=numpy > real 0m7.353s > user 0m1.256s > sys 0m0.136s > > $ time guix package --search=conduit > real 0m0.728s > user 0m0.764s > sys 0m0.044s > > compared to Debian `aptitude` for example: > > $ time aptitude search numpy > real 0m3.513s > user 0m0.692s > sys 0m0.092s > > $ time aptitude search conduit > real 0m0.622s > user 0m0.540s > sys 0m0.048s The cold-cache timings are worse for Guix, which ends up doing a lot of I/O to traverse all these .scm files; APT only has to go through a couple of files I guess. The warm-cache timings are comparable though, which I think is good. :-) We could probably improve the cold-cache timings by adding synopses and descriptions to the package cache that ‘guix pull’ builds in ~/.config/guix/current/lib/guix/package.cache, but that would also make that cache bigger. Not sure if it’s worth it. Thanks, Ludo’.
