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Nix RFC draft for auto-calling packages in nixpkgs
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Test `all-packages.nix`-like performance to `builtins.readDir` with and without sharding #23

Closed infinisil closed 1 year ago

nixos-discourse commented 1 year ago

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-01-03-nixpkgs-architecture-team-meeting-23/24404/1

nixos-discourse commented 1 year ago

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-01-09-nixpkgs-architecture-team-meeting-24/24556/1

nixos-discourse commented 1 year ago

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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2023-01-16-nixpkgs-architecture-team-meeting-25/24724/1

infinisil commented 1 year ago

In https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/211832, we've seen that the performance with sharding is about the same as it was before, so a flat directory should be comparable -> sharding isn't problematic.