[pacman-dev] Paralellising integrity checks

[Tavian Barnes]

On 26 February 2011 18:56, Tavian Barnes <tavianator at tavianator.com> wrote:
> On 25 February 2011 11:13, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> * Downloads. I see a call to do this in parallel a lot and I will
>> continue to think this is stupid, but maybe that is just me. If you
>> can't find a mirror that saturates your connection, look around- we
>> have a lot.
>
> That seems like a bad idea, I agree with you.  But while we're
> downloading we could probably be doing a bunch of work in the
> background, including integrity checks.  The next version of the
> patchset I post will do this.

Or possibly not, I didn't see the NACK from you on the other email.

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Tavian Barnes