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spam-reports 2023-05-22
Hey, not sure if this is the right channel. But I had to execute this script recently https://download.clojure.org/install/win-install-1.11.1.1165.ps1 and noticed it was dog slow because it had a progress bar (https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/2138).
If the script can be amended to set $ProgressPreference = "SilentlyContinue" it reduces the time taken to download the ZIP from 30 seconds to 270ms on my machine.
Measure-Command {Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "" -OutFile a.zip}
TotalSeconds : 30.1399345
Measure-Command {$ProgressPreference = "SilentlyContinue"; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "" -OutFile b.zip}
TotalSeconds : 0.2708882 @alexmiller typically with PowerShell scripts we would put the actions preferences at the top so they are all together. This setting would also improve Expand-Archive so I as long as the preference is set before any calls to either Invoke-WebRequest or Expand-Archive it will do the desirable thing. I didn't realise the script lived on GH otherwise I would have sent in a PR. Cheers 👍
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Sorry, forgot to say I got the script from https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/wiki/clj-on-Windows which itself is linked from https://clojure.org/guides/install_clojure#_windows_instructions
In https://github.com/clojure/brew-install/blob/1.11.1/src/main/resources/clojure/install/win-install.ps1 where would this need to go? just before the Invoke-WebRequest line?