Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-08-19 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 14:54, Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to > Nix) is its speed. I have never tried Nix and probably won't in a near > future, but I was wondering if

Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-07-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
"W. T. Meyer" writes: > However, the download speed from the official substitute servers is > noticeable slower; but that's to be expected considering the resources^1 > NixOS is allocating towards their binary/build caching efforts. I’ve found download speeds to vary wildly dependent on where

Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-07-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." skribis: > Then the "best" actual comparison might be the one done by Andrew Tropin > a few years ago, right here : > https://gist.github.com/abcdw/e54807b0a25e61fe2cf1bf8991410f83 > > Maybe we could get in touch w

Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-06-25 Thread W. T. Meyer
Hi, Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." writes: > One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to > Nix) is its speed. I am using guix as well as nix, and depending on the operation you're performing there's not much of a noticea

Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-06-20 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
On 2023-06-20 12:45, W. T. Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." > writes: > >> One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to >> Nix) is its speed. > > I am using guix as well as nix, and depending on the opera

Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-06-20 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 02:55:21PM -0400, kiasoc5 wrote: > On 6/19/23 08:54, Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU > System distribution. wrote: > > > > One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to > > Nix) is its speed. I have never tried Nix and probably

Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-06-19 Thread Csepp
kiasoc5 writes: > On 6/19/23 08:54, Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the > GNU System distribution. wrote: >> One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to >> Nix) is its speed. I have never tried Nix and probably won't in a near >> future, but I was wonderi

Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-06-19 Thread kiasoc5
On 6/19/23 08:54, Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to Nix) is its speed. I have never tried Nix and probably won't in a near future, but I was wondering if some work has been made

Guix / Nix Benchmarks

2023-06-19 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to Nix) is its speed. I have never tried Nix and probably won't in a near future, but I was wondering if some work has been made to compare them on basic tasks (package installation, removal...) (the reason why I ask is to be able