bug#30053: [PATCH 1/3] Improve appearance of tabular output.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi again,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Here's an improved version of the first patch.  It now uses a hard limit
> on the maximum width of a column, which is a poor man's way of getting
> rid of the outliers that cause the table to be too wide in some
> situations (such as in 'guix package -A').
>
> Otherwise the performance remain unchanged (from ~2 to ~7 seconds with
> 'guix package -A' on a fast machine).
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Maxim

I've improved it some more and pushed as 01d7e8c278.  The performance is
about 5 s on a fast machines to format the 18000 something packages of
the collection, compared to 2 s before (guix package -A), which I think
is OK (but it'd be nice to see Guile opitimize for faster (ice-9
format)!).

Closing.

Thanks to all involved!

Maxim