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.
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- src/libexpr/common-opts.cc 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/libexpr/common-opts.cc
- src/libexpr/parser.y 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/libexpr/parser.y
- src/libexpr/primops.cc 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/libexpr/primops.cc
- src/libstore/builtins.cc 6 additions, 4 deletionssrc/libstore/builtins.cc
- src/libstore/download.cc 379 additions, 171 deletionssrc/libstore/download.cc
- src/libstore/download.hh 28 additions, 7 deletionssrc/libstore/download.hh
- src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc 9 additions, 17 deletionssrc/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc
- src/nix-channel/nix-channel.cc 4 additions, 4 deletionssrc/nix-channel/nix-channel.cc
- src/nix-prefetch-url/nix-prefetch-url.cc 1 addition, 1 deletionsrc/nix-prefetch-url/nix-prefetch-url.cc
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