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

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: 33643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#33643] [PATCH] gnu-build-system: Enable xz to decompress in parallel.
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:08:29 +0000

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

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