GNU bug report logs - #33643
[PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in parallel.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 33643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 33643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#33643] [PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in
 parallel.
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 03:13:52 -0500

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On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:56:15AM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> 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.

The xz man page says that multi-threaded decompression isn't implemented
yet, unfortunately.

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