[Nix-dev] LLVM builds on Hydra but not locally

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 16/12/13 13:56, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Not much I presume.  When you do have 100 derivations to build, their
> body will typically take longer than ‘touch $out’.  At this point, the
> overhead shouldn’t matter this much.

NixOS has lots of "trivial" derivations to build stuff like configuration files
and systemd units.  When running nixos-rebuild it's really noticeable that this
takes a long time.

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