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Nix RFC draft for auto-calling packages in nixpkgs
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Measure `git` speed impact of sharding #18

Open infinisil opened 1 year ago

infinisil commented 1 year ago

Compare the speed of git with a flat hierarchy vs sharding.

infinisil commented 1 year ago

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-11-28-nixpkgs-architecture-team-meeting-19/23572/3 contains some very basic stats

infinisil commented 1 year ago

We talked about this in today's meeting: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-12-05-nixpkgs-architecture-team-meeting-20/23740#httpsgithubcomnixpkgs-architecturesimple-package-pathsissues18-4

infinisil commented 1 year ago

We could also look into whether git has any problems with its object sharding (2-letter hash prefix)