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-rw-r--r--guix/profiles.scm40
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/guix/profiles.scm b/guix/profiles.scm
index 8aa76a3537..47a7c92569 100644
--- a/guix/profiles.scm
+++ b/guix/profiles.scm
@@ -1418,26 +1418,38 @@ the entries in MANIFEST."
#~(begin
(use-modules (guix man-db)
(guix build utils)
+ (ice-9 threads)
(srfi srfi-1)
(srfi srfi-19))
+ (define (print-string msg)
+ (display msg)
+ (force-output))
+
+ (define-syntax-rule (print fmt args ...)
+ ;; Build up the string and display it at once.
+ (print-string (format #f fmt args ...)))
+
+ (define (compute-entry directory count total)
+ (print "\r[~3d/~3d] building list of man-db entries..."
+ count total)
+ (let ((man (string-append directory "/share/man")))
+ (if (directory-exists? man)
+ (mandb-entries man)
+ '())))
+
(define (compute-entries)
;; This is the most expensive part (I/O and CPU, due to
;; decompression), so report progress as we traverse INPUTS.
- (let* ((inputs '#$(manifest-inputs manifest))
- (total (length inputs)))
- (append-map (lambda (directory count)
- (format #t "\r[~3d/~3d] building list of \
-man-db entries..."
- count total)
- (force-output)
- (let ((man (string-append directory
- "/share/man")))
- (if (directory-exists? man)
- (mandb-entries man)
- '())))
- inputs
- (iota total 1))))
+ ;; Cap at 4 threads because we don't see any speedup beyond that
+ ;; on an SSD laptop.
+ (let* ((inputs '#$(manifest-inputs manifest))
+ (total (length inputs))
+ (threads (min (parallel-job-count) 4)))
+ (concatenate
+ (n-par-map threads compute-entry inputs
+ (iota total 1)
+ (make-list total total)))))
(define man-directory
(string-append #$output "/share/man"))