Re: Speeding up 'make check-system'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:

> The attached patch aims to speed up iterative development with 'make
> check-system', by reusing most of the compiled objects from the Guix
> checkout you are developing from (which needs to be built anyway for
> 'make check' to run).

Note that this is not about ‘make check-system’ in general but
specifically about the tests in (gnu tests install).  These tests
require a “current Guix”, which is costly.

Interested readers are hereby invited to read Maxim’s benchmarks and the
discussion here:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37305#7

:-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.