Re: When substitute download + decompression is CPU-bound

[Nicolò Balzarotti]

Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> writes:

> Here are a few numbers for the installation time in seconds (download
> time + decompression time) when fetching 580 MB of substitutes for
> download speeds between 0.5 MB/s and 20 MB/s.

Which hardware did you use?  Since you are fixing the download speed,
those results really depend on cpu speed.

> As Gzip is never the best choice, it would make sense to drop it, even
> if we have to wait a little until everyone has updated their Guix daemon

My hypothesis is that this won't be the case on something slow like the
raspberry pi 1.