Hello, Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> it’s not supposed to be >> faster to download 10 things in parallel from ci.guix.gnu.org, than to >> download them sequentially. > > I was thinking a little bit ahead in the future, e.g. when we have more > build farms (if it ever happens), or with Torrent / IPFS support. Then > I believe it would be highly beneficial: a sufficiently fast connection > could effectively parallelize enough downloads to fill the bandwidth. I think we’ll have to revisit this issue at that point; it’s hard to discuss things in the abstract. :-) > Also what about the CDNs? Is it currently possible to download from > multiple CDNs at the same time? We’d have to ask Chris Marusich about that, but I think CDNs should typically use all the available bandwidth so I suspect there’s little to be gained by having several connections in parallel. Ludo’.
