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01/03: website: faster-substitutes: Tweak.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
01/03: website: faster-substitutes: Tweak. |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:42:03 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix-artwork.
commit ef14085fa23e1472d4a4f07c535cdeb9a389cb36
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 26 13:30:56 2021 +0100
website: faster-substitutes: Tweak.
* website/drafts/faster-substitutes.md: Change title; tweak.
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-title: Towards faster substitutes
-date: 2021-03-25 13:00
+title: Getting bytes to disk more quickly
+date: 2021-03-26 14:00
author: Ludovic Courtès
tags: Reproducible builds, Scheme API
---
@@ -14,16 +14,20 @@ Guix System for the first time.
With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that Michael
Stapelberg’s [excellent 2020 Arch Linux Conference
talk](https://media.ccc.de/v/arch-conf-online-2020-6387-distri-researching-fast-linux-package-management)
-and the installation speed achieved with distri were a great motivation
+and the installation speed achieved by distri were a great motivation
boost. Michael proposes radical ideas to speed up package installation,
-such as downloading and mounting ready-to-use SquashFS images. This
-cannot be transposed to Guix as-is, but it certainly got us thinking.
-
-This article dives into improvements made over the last few months and
-that will be in the upcoming 1.2.1 release; they all contribute to
-making substitute download and installation “fasterâ€. This is an
-evolution of the existing mechanisms rather than a revolution, but one
-that users will surely welcome.
+such as downloading and mounting ready-to-use SquashFS images. Not
+everything can be transposed to Guix as-is, but it certainly got us
+thinking.
+
+This article dives into improvements made over the last few months that
+will be in the upcoming 1.2.1 release, and which are already [one `guix
+pull`
+away](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Upgrading-Guix.html);
+they all contribute to making [substitute
+download](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html) and
+installation “fasterâ€. This is an evolution of the existing mechanisms
+rather than a revolution, but one that users will surely welcome.
# Reducing latency