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Robert Hensing 2cc8387cb3 WIP: accumulate attrset updates, use k-way merge
This seems to be slower as of yet.

TODO

- [ ] remove merge pass 2 into 1:
  - pass 1: fill UpdateQueue
  - pass 2: stats (like max output size)
  - pass 3: k-way merge
- [ ] maybe tracking sortedness is useful and cheap? in pass 1, building the UpdateQueue
- [ ] make it actually fast; different algorithm depending on size distribution and number of update ops?
  - currently solution is the min-heap or priority queue approach
  - divide and conquer (see also Nixpkgs which manually implements this for pkgs/by-name)
    binary tree-shaped sorted merge operations
    - can we take the size of attrsets into account to balance the work?
      1000 + (1 + (1 + 1)) is better than ((1000+1)+1)+1  (where number refers to attrset size)
  - iterative pairwise merging is more or less what we had, the tree of updates is flattened. Probably worse.
  - perhaps some combination of solutions, depending on a heuristic
- [ ] split callFunction into two parts, effectively
        - call2Thunk (create the new scope's Env etc)
        - eval that thunk (evaluate the body)
- [ ] implement ExprApply::evalForUpdate - easy after the split
- [ ] make foldl' (//) work?
- [ ] optimize listToAttrs and other primops?
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Nix

Open Collective supporters Test

Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.

Installation and first steps

Visit nix.dev for installation instructions and beginner tutorials.

Full reference documentation can be found in the Nix manual.

Building and developing

Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.

Contributing

Check the contributing guide if you want to get involved with developing Nix.

Additional resources

Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model, published 2006. Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.