Subject: Re: [bug#33643] [PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in parallel.

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:08:29 +0000

Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> writes:

> It can take a little while to decompress some packages with large xz
> compressed source tar files. xz includes support for parallelism, so enable
> this using the parallel job count for the overall derivation.

I'm guessing this is only suitable for core-updates, as it'll cause a
lot of rebuilds. I'm also not sure if it's worth it, but it does seem to
make building some packages at least start faster.