stdenv: enable multithreading for xz decompression

(only if the implementation supports it)

This speeds up the decompression of huge tar.xz tarballs (e.g. chromium)
on high core count systems.
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emilylange 2023-10-25 23:56:55 +02:00
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@ -1057,7 +1057,11 @@ _defaultUnpack() {
case "$fn" in
*.tar.xz | *.tar.lzma | *.txz)
# Don't rely on tar knowing about .xz.
xz -d < "$fn" | tar xf - --warning=no-timestamp
# Additionally, we have multiple different xz binaries with different feature sets in different
# stages. The XZ_OPT env var is only used by the full "XZ utils" implementation, which supports
# the --threads (-T) flag. This allows us to enable multithreaded decompression exclusively on
# that implementation, without the use of complex bash conditionals and checks.
XZ_OPT="--threads=$NIX_BUILD_CORES" xz -d < "$fn" | tar xf - --warning=no-timestamp
;;
*.tar | *.tar.* | *.tgz | *.tbz2 | *.tbz)
# GNU tar can automatically select the decompression method