nix-gh/src/nix-prefetch-url
Eelco Dolstra 1b34b69b45
nix-prefetch-url: Download file in constant memory
Before:

  $ command time nix-prefetch-url https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.17.6.tar.xz
  1.19user 1.02system 0:41.96elapsed 5%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 182720maxresident)k

After:

  1.38user 1.05system 0:39.73elapsed 6%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 16204maxresident)k

Note however that addToStore() can still take a lot of memory
(e.g. RemoteStore::addToStore() is constant space, but
LocalStore::addToStore() isn't; that's fixed by
c94b4fc7ee
though).

Fixes #1400.
2018-07-12 18:48:41 +02:00
..
local.mk nix-prefetch-url: Rewrite in C++ 2015-10-01 16:47:43 +02:00
nix-prefetch-url.cc nix-prefetch-url: Download file in constant memory 2018-07-12 18:48:41 +02:00