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27 Jun 2023
@zmitchell:matrix.org@zmitchell:matrix.org
In reply to @fricklerhandwerk:matrix.org
Silvan proposed dumping drafts into the maintainers directory where they are not rendered
That's fine with me, we just discussed something different at the time.
15:37:10
@zmitchell:matrix.org@zmitchell:matrix.org Is there any documentation explaining what's shown while you're building a package e.g. [1/32/39 built, 37 copied (26.4/26.5 MiB), 9.6 MiB DL]? 17:45:28
@zmitchell:matrix.org@zmitchell:matrix.org I would expect this to show up under the nix build command, but it shows up during other operations as well 17:45:59
@toonn:matrix.orgtoonn FWIW, I think it is current builds/finished builds/total builds. 18:17:59
@asymmetric:matrix.dapp.org.ukasymmetric
In reply to @zmitchell:matrix.org
Is there any documentation explaining what's shown while you're building a package e.g. [1/32/39 built, 37 copied (26.4/26.5 MiB), 9.6 MiB DL]?
this is one of my greatest sources of wonder, how can something as visible as this be undocumented 😂
20:24:42
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaenix should really just steal nom in its entirety20:26:06
@toonn:matrix.orgtoonn TBF it is the UI for the experimental commands, I guess. 20:36:28
@olafklingt:matrix.org@olafklingt:matrix.org
In reply to @pennae:matrix.eno.space
nix should really just steal nom in its entirety
Whats nom?
20:58:39
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennae nix-output-monitor. really nice visualizer, miles ahead of that one line you get out of nix 20:59:38
@alex:tunstall.xyzAlex
In reply to @pennae:matrix.eno.space
nix-output-monitor. really nice visualizer, miles ahead of that one line you get out of nix
You don't even get that one line without using the experimental nix3 commands :D
22:14:20
@figsoda:matrix.orgfigsoda
In reply to @zmitchell:matrix.org
Is there any documentation explaining what's shown while you're building a package e.g. [1/32/39 built, 37 copied (26.4/26.5 MiB), 9.6 MiB DL]?
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3352#issuecomment-584247583
22:51:42
28 Jun 2023
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92I was thinking about pre-building nixos docs to save eval time when building nixos.01:55:28
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92So same thing as https://github.com/nix-community/nix-index-database but for docs.01:55:43
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennae
In reply to @joerg:thalheim.io
I was thinking about pre-building nixos docs to save eval time when building nixos.
lazy options is exactly that
01:58:20
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaeif you find more places where we can cache things then improvements are definitely welcome, but due to how nixos docs are built we think the next improvement will need flakes (or a similar mechanism for source caching)02:04:47
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@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92pennae: so you are saying manual generation is already much faster? I haven't benchmarked in a while.12:36:56
@drupol:matrix.orgPolI just submitted a PR to fix the nixos manual 12:43:58
@drupol:matrix.orgPolhttps://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/108512:44:01
@drupol:matrix.orgPolBut this doesn't have impact on speed 12:44:13
@drupol:matrix.orgPolJust than the produced html is wrong atm12:44:25
@drupol:matrix.orgPol* Just that the produced html is wrong atm12:44:36
@drupol:matrix.orgPolThis PR actually https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/24032712:45:14
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennae
In reply to @joerg:thalheim.io
pennae: so you are saying manual generation is already much faster? I haven't benchmarked in a while.
yeah, when we started out we cut about 40% of eval time off of it. can't remember how much the manual still costs, but it wasn't a substantial fraction or we would've probably gone there too.
(instead we went for the nix evaluator, and if that seems like the easier thing to do ...)
13:10:43
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92Redacted or Malformed Event13:12:09
@nbp:mozilla.orgnbp Mic92: Nice password! Thanks for sharing ;) 13:13:45
@pennae:matrix.eno.spacepennaethere may still be gains to be had with pre-built docs that aren't necessarily accurate to the current system (turning of nixos docs and adding a cached docs package)? haven't benchmarked in a while either13:14:37
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92How do you measure stuff?13:15:24
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92I find that super hard with nix.13:15:32
@joerg:thalheim.ioMic92 * How do you profile stuff?13:16:05

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