A few changes to tarball creation (for build caches):
- do not run file to distinguish binary from text
- file is slow, even when running it in a batched fashion -- it usually reads all bytes and has slow logic to categorize specific types
- we don't need a highly detailed file categorization; a crude categorization of elf, mach-o, text suffices.
detecting elf and mach-o is straightforward and cheap
- detecting utf-8 (and with that ascii) is highly accurate: false positive rate decays exponentially as file size increases. Further it's not only the most common encoding, but the most common file type in package prefixes.
iso-8859-1 is cheaply (but heuristically) detected too, and sufficiently accurate after binaries and utf-8 files are classified earlier
- remove file as a dependency of Spack in general, which makes Spack itself easier to install
- detect file type and need to relocate as part of creating the tarball, which is more cache friendly and thus faster
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