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Author SHA1 Message Date
Guillaume Maudoux f78126bfd6 Get rid of unicode quotes (#1140) 2016-11-25 15:48:27 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ee43df862
nix-channel: Fix --update <CHANNELS>
This unbreaks "nixos-rebuild --upgrade".
2016-11-21 15:54:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 90ad02bf62 Enable HTTP/2 support
The binary cache store can now use HTTP/2 to do lookups. This is much
more efficient than HTTP/1.1 due to multiplexing: we can issue many
requests in parallel over a single TCP connection. Thus it's no longer
necessary to use a bunch of concurrent TCP connections (25 by
default).

For example, downloading 802 .narinfo files from
https://cache.nixos.org/, using a single TCP connection, takes 11.8s
with HTTP/1.1, but only 0.61s with HTTP/2.

This did require a fairly substantial rewrite of the Downloader class
to use the curl multi interface, because otherwise curl wouldn't be
able to do multiplexing for us. As a bonus, we get connection reuse
even with HTTP/1.1. All downloads are now handled by a single worker
thread. Clients call Downloader::enqueueDownload() to tell the worker
thread to start the download, getting a std::future to the result.
2016-09-14 16:36:02 +02:00
Shea Levy dfe0938614 download.hh: Fix conflicts from nix-channel-c++ merge 2016-08-31 09:57:56 -04:00
Shea Levy 59124228b3 nix-channel: implement in c++ 2016-08-11 11:34:43 -04:00