Following adding the functionality for new app installs earlier this year, the Google Play Store is once rolling out support…

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    16 days ago

    Not my experience when using parallel downloads in Arch Linux. Pacman becomes waaaay faster.

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      16 days ago

      Are you downloading from several mirrors at the same time? In that case it could be faster because the individual mirrors have a lower bandwidth than you have.

      Wonder if google would do something like this, but I would guess they download everything from the same server local to you, so I don’t think it should have any effect really.