Hi, On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 at 11:58, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> What could be done about this? Another solution would be to somehow >> build Guix without any of the dependencies and then add them in later, >> similar to what is done with build-aux/build-self.scm to be able to load >> (guix self) in the first place. That seems quite complex though. > > Most of the time is spent evaluating (gnu packages …) modules; > evaluation is pretty slow, and from what I remember of previous > profiling sessions, this is largely due to psyntax. We should > concentrate on that. On my machine the step “Computing Guix derivation” is single-threaded. Is it not possible to exploit multi-thread here? Cheers, simon
