[bug#50384] [PATCH] Optimise search-patch (reducing I/O)

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 at 18:17, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Rough design sketch:
>
> The idea I have in mind would be to have <package> be a sub-record-type
> of <proto-package>, where <proto-package> would contain only the
> metadata currently provided by ‘fold-available-packages’ (mainly: name,
> version, module/variable).
>
> <proto-package> would have a gexp compiler that looks up the
> package/derivation mapping in ~/.cache/guix and either return it
> directly (cache hit) or look up the corresponding <package>, do all the
> work, and add an entry in the cache (cache miss).

In this rough design sketch, would this <proto-package> help for
improving the situation of "guix search"?  Well, could this cache help
at more place than search-patch?

Cheers,
simon