Re: Speeding up guix?

[Leo Famulari]

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 :)