Hi Ludo, On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 15:46, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > We could build and install the index when Guix is built and installed > > and then use it for the search. I can’t think of a downside to adopting > > an index compared to what we have now. > > The possible downsides are (1) ‘guix pull’ will take an additional 8 > seconds, (2) there’ll be some extra complexity because the current > implementation needs to be kept anyway for when the pre-built index is > not authoritative—i.e., when ‘GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH’ is set or when ‘-L’ is > used; see ‘cache-is-authoritative?’ in (gnu packages). About (1), let implement something experimental and time it to compare apples with apples. :-) I mean I am working on it. As said elsewhere, "guix search" could be improved in different area and the inverted index is an easy first step, IMHO. About (2), I have not figured out yet how "guix pull" works and all the relative folders in ~/.cache/guix. I will report my issues later. :-) > I don’t find ‘guix search’ to be excessively slow currently (on an SSD > at least), but I agree that the speedup would be welcome! One next step would to search in all the packages and/or services that "guix time-machine" can manipulate. Cheers, simon
