Hi Pierre, On Wed, 09 Dec 2020 at 10:40, Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:
> `guix environment --container ... -- my-foo-program` is great but a bit > slow to start. > > Is there a way to speed this up? I get, cold cache: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' $ time guix environment --container --ad-hoc hello -- hello Hello, world! real 0m2.815s user 0m1.852s sys 0m0.238s $ sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' $ time guix environment --pure --ad-hoc hello -- hello Hello, world! real 0m2.656s user 0m1.733s sys 0m0.240s --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and warm cache: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ time guix environment --container --ad-hoc hello -- hello Hello, world! real 0m1.399s user 0m1.544s sys 0m0.104s $ time guix environment --pure --ad-hoc hello -- hello Hello, world! real 0m1.250s user 0m1.492s sys 0m0.094s --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Do you have examples where the difference is significant? All the best, simon
