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Optimise concatenating a list to an empty list

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More precisely, in concatLists, if all lists except one are empty,
then just return the non-empty list.  This reduces the number of list
element allocations by 32% when evaluating a NixOS system
configuration.
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Eelco Dolstra 2012-08-13 14:58:54 -04:00
parent 9c2d63084b
commit 3e89ef597c
1 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions
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src/libexpr/eval.cc
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@ -923,10 +923,18 @@ void EvalState::concatLists(Value & v, unsigned int nrLists, Value * * lists)
{
nrListConcats++;
Value * nonEmpty = 0;
unsigned int len = 0;
for (unsigned int n = 0; n < nrLists; ++n) {
forceList(*lists[n]);
len += lists[n]->list.length;
unsigned int l = lists[n]->list.length;
len += l;
if (l) nonEmpty = lists[n];
}
if (nonEmpty && len == nonEmpty->list.length) {
v = *nonEmpty;
return;
}
mkList(v, len);