That way, when fetching a series of substitutes from the same server(s),
the connection is reused instead of being closed/opened for each
substitutes, which saves on network round trips and TLS handshakes.
* guix/http-client.scm (http-fetch): Add #:keep-alive? and honor it.
* guix/progress.scm (progress-report-port): Add #:close? parameter and
honor it.
* guix/scripts/substitute.scm (at-most): Return the tail as a second
value.
(fetch): Add #:port and #:keep-alive? and honor them.
(%max-cached-connections): New variable.
(open-connection-for-uri/cached, call-with-cached-connection): New
procedures.
(with-cached-connection): New macro.
(process-substitution): Wrap 'fetch' call in 'with-cached-connection'.
Pass #:close? to 'progress-report-port'.
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