Hi,

Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> skribis:

> Now, performance is probably a bit more complicated than just download
> speed. The US mirror holds the narinfo information locally, which should
> enable it to respond to requests more quickly, reducing latency, but
> this is a little harder to test.

For those of us who have a fast connection to the server, download time
is CPU-bound; in that case, offering zstd substitutes can make a real
difference:

  https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/getting-bytes-to-disk-more-quickly/

Ludo’.

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