[alwillis]

Since I enabled HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY, downloads have improved for me to the point where download speed is no longer an issue.

[firecall]

If your version is 5.0.0 or newer, concurrency is already active by default.

https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0/

[pugio]

Thanks for that. And here I was somehow hanging around on 4.5.3.

[brailsafe]

Good to know! I was doing this with a hacky one-liner but wasn't aware of this flag. I think the sequential build/install process is the agonizing bit though.

[naikrovek]

Yeah I don’t know how people are saying it’s slow. If you have 5000 packages installed maybe?