Re: Faster "guix pull" by incremental compilation and non-circular modules?

[Maxime Devos]

Gábor Boskovits schreef op di 31-05-2022 om 06:54 [+0200]:
> I was thinking about a bit of a different structure that can also be
> automated. My original idea was to use the already existing tree
> structure of the derivations, and split it based on depth. I think
> that gives a bit more structure, but might require splitting things
> that now are together (for example iirc sometimes we are defining
> bootstrap packages inheriting from the fully fledged ones, which
> introduces a syntactic dependency on something that is  higher up the
> tree). Wdyt?

The package modules could be split and reorganised a bit to roughly
follow the derivation DAG, if that's what you mean (*)? Then the "guix"
package would depend on less -> compute-guix-derivation etc has less to
do, also good for lowering "guix $do_something" memory footprint. 
Seems orthogonal to my proposal.  I guess we could eventually do both?

Greetings,
Maxime.

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