On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 15:48, Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielma...@web.de> wrote: > > On 5/15/19 3:34 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > 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. > > Another idea would be to have some kind of simple search which only > includes the package name and maybe the synopsis. So this could go to > the cache and I would assume that a cold-cache search will also be > faster. And as a nice give away, it doesn't include so much scrolling :)
`guix package -A` already searches only for the names and uses the cache. >From my opinion, the difference between adding the synopsis or synopsis+description to the cache is similar. Qui peut le plus peut le moins (Who can do more can do less too ;-) > But in general I don't find the search so slow. Sometimes zypper for > example has to refresh the repos and than "guix search" is faster, even > with cold cache... I agree that now the performance are not so "horrible", but even, can we do better? :-) All the best, simon
