On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 01:59:56AM +0100, yarnton--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: > A slightly annoying aspect of Guix that IMHO should be improved is download > speed. I haven't inspected any code, but it seems to me that Guix is > reopening a connection for downloading every item? If so, that's a bit > wasteful, and makes things unnecessarily slow even with a good connection.
This is indeed a big source of slowness while using Guix, and it has been discussed previously: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-11/msg00226.html It seems like we discuss it every November! We just need someone to lead the work to improve it :)
