Hi Ludo, On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 17:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I would rather keep the current package cache as-is instead of inserting > sqlite in here. I don’t expect it to bring much compared > performance-wise to the current simple cache (especially if we look at > load time), and it does increase complexity quite a bit. Complexity is about taste. ;-) About performance, the idea was to first implement something with sqlite and then see if it makes the difference. I mean I have understood that. > However, using sqlite for keyword search as you initially proposed on > guix-devel does sound like a great idea to me. If I understand correctly, you are proposing 2 caches, right? Or are you proposing an inverted index (VHash/VList table) based on trigrams to speed up the lookup? Cheers, simon