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.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/common-opts.cc b/src/libexpr/common-opts.cc
index 8a7989aac663..06d6ed87df94 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/common-opts.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/common-opts.cc
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ bool parseSearchPathArg(Strings::iterator & i,
 Path lookupFileArg(EvalState & state, string s)
 {
     if (isUri(s))
-        return makeDownloader()->downloadCached(state.store, s, true);
+        return getDownloader()->downloadCached(state.store, s, true);
     else if (s.size() > 2 && s.at(0) == '<' && s.at(s.size() - 1) == '>') {
         Path p = s.substr(1, s.size() - 2);
         return state.findFile(p);