I suspect that someone being the auditors who are suspicious of opaque binary ca...

joepie91_ · on May 21, 2020

I don't know. If that were the case, I'd imagine they would know why their build was taking hours and that it wasn't a Nix problem.

yawaramin · on May 21, 2020

That was my reading, based on the fact that they glossed over Nix itself and attributed most of the issues to code complexity.

joepie91_ · on May 21, 2020

It explicitly says this, though:

> while much of that build time is attributable to Nix's way of building dependencies

And that part just doesn't make sense to me. I can't see any way in which specifically Nix's way of building dependencies would contribute to this. The compiling of the universe, sure, but then why mention Nix?

yawaramin · on May 22, 2020

It does say that, but it's off in its own clause, then shifts focus away from it towards what seems like the focus of the auditors.