Re: mktool support for fetch

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%dropje.13thmonkey.org@localhost>]

Hi Jonathan,

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 06:59:52PM +0200, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * 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.

Join the club ;)

> 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.

Well where is the source so I can inspect it? I couldn't find it in the
checkout version of pkgsrc-TrinitonDataCenter

With regards,
Reinoud