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Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks
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Re: Guix / Nix Benchmarks |
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Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:24:34 +0200 |
kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> writes:
> On 6/19/23 08:54, Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the
> GNU System distribution. wrote:
>> One of the criticism that can be read online about Guix (compared to
>> Nix) is its speed. I have never tried Nix and probably won't in a near
>> future, but I was wondering if some work has been made to compare them
>> on basic tasks (package installation, removal...) (the reason why I ask
>> is to be able to give an honest answer to someone hesitating between
>> both).
>>
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> At least package installation is faster with Nix. One reason is that
> Hydra (their "substitute server") has faster download speeds compared
> to CI/Bordeaux, likely due to multiple geographical locations/mirrors.
Conversely, Nix itself is likely to be slower than Guile. I remember
search being so memory intensive with Nix that it got OOM killed even
with 4 GB of RAM, although they may have fixed that since.