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[PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in parallel.

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 33643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Subject: Re: [bug#33643] [PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in
 parallel.
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2018 16:32:01 +0200

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On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 04:06:53PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 07:38:21PM +0000, Christopher Baines wrote:
> > So, if -T was used to compress the data, then it sounds like it'll work
> > to decompress it. I guess this adds a little more uncertainty to the
> > benefit of this change, as the impact is dependent on the way the source
> > data is compressed.
> 
> Right. When parallel decompression is implemented, I think we should
> enable it in order to get some benefit from upstream tarballs that may
> have been created with multi-threaded compression. 
> 
> However, we probably won't be able to use the parallel compression
> within Guix because it is apparently not deterministic:
> 
> <https://bugs.gnu.org/31015>

If the tarball is compressed in parallel then it can be decompressed in
parallel.

As for compressing in parallel, it *might work* to pass it through our
non-bootstrap tar for 'tar --sort=name' and then pass it through xz
-T(pick-a-num).


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