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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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ bool parseSearchPathArg(Strings::iterator & i,
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Path lookupFileArg(EvalState & state, string s)
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{
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if (isUri(s))
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return makeDownloader()->downloadCached(state.store, s, true);
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return getDownloader()->downloadCached(state.store, s, true);
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else if (s.size() > 2 && s.at(0) == '<' && s.at(s.size() - 1) == '>') {
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Path p = s.substr(1, s.size() - 2);
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return state.findFile(p);
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