Lo and behold, we're finally catching up with Mozillas very own firefox
build in terms of speed.
PGO is an optimization technique in which in a first step we create a
build that supports instrumentation, meaning we can use it to create a
profile of how the browser behaved during usage. Then in a second pass
we create the final build that uses the acquired profiling data to
optimize the browser for the workload it actually received during
profiling.
The downside is that with PGO we now need to build Firefox twice, which
increases the build time from around 20 minutes to roughly 50 minutes.
In the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark multiple tests could see a
responsiveness improvemeant around 20-25%, which makes the increased
build time well worth it.
Sadly this benefit seems limited to x86_64-linux, builds on
aarch64-linux get stuck during profiling and I haven't found out why.
Finally, after a long time, we can say:
Closes: #76484
Supersedes: #129503
When a NixOS system uses flakes, i.e., /etc/nixos/flake.nix exists, it
is impossible to use nixos-rebuild to build a pre-flake
configuration.nix. Of course, one can directly use nix command to
build the configuration, but not everybody remembers the correct nix
options to do that.
With the new option, it is possible to build a pre-flake configuration
with command like this:
nixos-rebuild build-vm -I nixos-config=./vm.nix --no-flake
The option might be useful for people following older pre-flake
tutorials on a flake-based system.
* _7zz: correct license and remove p7zip dependency
The code under Compress/Rar* is licensed under a specific unRAR license
Also Compress/LzfseDecoder.cpp is covered by BSD3
The unRAR code is removed from the `.tar.xz` since the license posits you
agree or remove the code from your hard drive
This adds some complexity to updating 7zz so there is also an update
script
Meta has been updated and tweaked
Source is now downloaded from sourceforge in the `.tar.xz` version to
avoid depending on p7zip
* _7zz: add notice of the license updates and optional unRAR licenced code
If `services.tor.client.enable` is set to false (the default), the `SOCKSPort` option is not added to the torrc file but since Tor defaults to listening on port 9050 when the option is not specified, the tor client is not actually disabled. To fix this, simply set `SOCKSPort` to 0, which disables the client.
Use `mkForce` to prevent potentially two different `SOCKSPort` options in the torrc file, with one of them being 0 as this would cause Tor to fail to start. When `services.tor.client.enable` is set to false, this should always be disabled.
