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`guix environment` performance issues

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb <at> leibniz-psychology.org>
Cc: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>, 41702-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41702: `guix environment` performance issues
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:51:34 +0200

Hi,

Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb <at> leibniz-psychology.org> skribis:

> grafting is still a performance issue imo. Compare for example:

Agreed.  The fix in 58bb833365db4e8934a386497d5b00a063cfd27d is
incomplete: we’re still potentially doing things several times.

> $ time guix environment --ad-hoc  --search-paths r-learnr
> guix environment --ad-hoc --search-paths r-learnr  5,90s user 0,09s system 210% cpu 2,844 total
> $ time guix environment --ad-hoc  --search-paths r-learnr --no-grafts
> guix environment --ad-hoc --search-paths r-learnr --no-grafts  2,03s user 0,08s system 164% cpu 1,277 total

Here’s what I get over a local socket:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
ludo <at> ribbon ~/src/guix$ time guix environment --ad-hoc  --search-paths r-learnr --no-grafts
export PATH="/gnu/store/wkhd1fnmg1q30g21bfn5jprz24m041w6-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"

real	0m1.790s
user	0m1.928s
sys	0m0.102s
ludo <at> ribbon ~/src/guix$ time guix environment --ad-hoc  --search-paths r-learnr
export PATH="/gnu/store/pwzrpzdbli2561f2yq70kljywn93h5w6-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"

real	0m3.820s
user	0m4.954s
sys	0m0.105s
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Ludo’.

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