* On 2024-08-25 at 18:11 CEST, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 07:52:23PM +0200, Jonathan Perkin wrote:On my vacation I've continued to work on mktool, and have now implemented a threaded fetch client that can significantly improve download speeds, especially when packages have multiple distfiles.This looks promising only why did you write it in Rust?
I don't really want to go off topic, so this will be my only reply to this part of the thread.
I'm the wrong side of 45. I have zero interest in wasting any time that I might have left writing C from scratch. Writing Rust is pure joy. I can go from an idea to a working, tested, robust, published and packaged implementation in the time it would take me to even begin the first few lines of a C version. The tooling is beautiful, makes programming fun, and the end result usually outperforms the equivalent C. Once it builds I know it will run perfectly on all of the platforms I care about, and I don't have to go around manually testing on them to find all of the various platform and compiler quirks that will break it.
If a C/OpenMP implementation shouldn't be that hard, I look forward to someone implementing it! If all I've done is inspire someone else to work on that then my work here is done. Though I wouldn't like to comment on the chances that OpenMP works on all 23 pkgsrc platforms and architectures.
-- Jonathan Perkin - mnx.io - pkgsrc.smartos.org Open Source Complete Cloud www.tritondatacenter.com