Hi Simon, Thanks for taking the time to benchmark this, this is very insightful! > Usually, my feeling about "guix pull" is... I am waiting! Therefore, > I will not see this extra 25s because it is masked by all the other > work "guix pull" is doing. I agree and this is a very good point in my opinion. While I don't expect nor do I need "guix pull" to complete immediately, this is not true of "guix search". As Simon suggested, maybe we can wrap a benchmark script together, post it on the mailing list and ask member to report their results. Maybe a few dozen results would give us a better idea of the numbers we are dealing with. Cheers! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/