Subject: bug#20255: 'search-paths' should respect both user and system profile.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:25:00 +0100

Alex Kost <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-24 20:22 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Alex Kost <[email-masked]> skribis:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès (2015-11-21 23:10 +0300) wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> Really?  Can you show the output of:
>>>>
>>>>   time guix package -p /run/current-system/profile \
>>>>                     -p ~/.guix-profile --search-paths
>>>
>>> real	0m2.634s
>>> user	0m0.568s
>>> sys	0m0.080s
>>
>> Could you measure again after cc3de1d?
>>
>> As it turns out, ‘guix package’ loads way too much and also stats too
>> much, at least for simple operations like --search-paths.
>
> real	0m1.122s
> user	0m0.244s
> sys	0m0.044s
>
> I measured it several times with a "cold" HDD (I mean when appropriate
> files were not cached), and the real time was always 1.0—1.3s.  Big
> improvement!  Thank you very much for this, autoloads are great!

Great, thanks for testing!  That’s still too much to my state, but it’s
already an improvement.

Ludo’.