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pennae 61a9d16d5c don't strdup tokens in the lexer
every stringy token the lexer returns is turned into a Symbol and not
used further, so we don't have to strdup. using a string_view is
sufficient, but due to limitations of the current parser we have to use
a POD type that holds the same information.

gives ~2% on system build, 6% on search, 8% on parsing alone

 # before

Benchmark 1: nix search --offline nixpkgs hello
  Time (mean ± σ):     610.6 ms ±   2.4 ms    [User: 602.5 ms, System: 7.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):   606.6 ms … 617.3 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 2: nix eval -f hackage-packages.nix
  Time (mean ± σ):     430.1 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 393.1 ms, System: 36.7 ms]
  Range (min … max):   428.2 ms … 434.2 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  Time (mean ± σ):      3.032 s ±  0.005 s    [User: 2.808 s, System: 0.223 s]
  Range (min … max):    3.023 s …  3.041 s    50 runs

 # after

Benchmark 1: nix search --offline nixpkgs hello
  Time (mean ± σ):     574.7 ms ±   2.8 ms    [User: 566.3 ms, System: 8.0 ms]
  Range (min … max):   569.2 ms … 580.7 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 2: nix eval -f hackage-packages.nix
  Time (mean ± σ):     394.4 ms ±   0.8 ms    [User: 361.8 ms, System: 32.3 ms]
  Range (min … max):   392.7 ms … 395.7 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  Time (mean ± σ):      2.976 s ±  0.005 s    [User: 2.757 s, System: 0.218 s]
  Range (min … max):    2.966 s …  2.990 s    50 runs
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.github add pull_request_template.md 2021-12-09 14:31:34 -05:00
config Run autoupdate 2021-06-01 11:42:38 +02:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc/manual Fix docker instructions 2021-12-16 21:48:38 +01:00
m4 autoconf: Fix C++17 detection not working on Ubuntu 16.04. 2019-07-03 04:32:25 +02:00
maintainers Update release script 2021-11-02 11:53:25 +01:00
misc launchd: Set NumberOfFiles to 4096 2021-12-04 20:46:29 +08:00
mk mk/libraries.mk: fix trace-ld and trace-ar expansions 2021-10-08 22:59:42 +01:00
nix-rust Apply OS checks to host platform, not build 2021-06-23 15:00:36 +00:00
perl Document libsodium, which is now mandatory, as a dependency 2021-11-27 23:11:11 +01:00
scripts Merge pull request #5521 from abathur/clearly_mark_validation_step 2021-12-08 20:04:03 +00:00
src don't strdup tokens in the lexer 2022-01-13 18:06:14 +01:00
tests Merge pull request #5047 from symphorien/fix-nix-channel 2021-12-17 10:05:48 +01:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig 2017-06-05 22:57:28 +01:00
.gitignore Remove nix-reduce-build and nix-http-export 2021-11-18 21:17:57 +01:00
.version Bump version 2021-12-14 00:01:42 +01:00
boehmgc-coroutine-sp-fallback.diff Fix leaking pthread_attr_t 2021-11-03 22:54:16 +01:00
bootstrap.sh bootstrap: Simplify & make more robust. 2011-09-06 12:11:05 +00:00
configure.ac Merge pull request #5678 from t184256/document-libsodium 2021-11-29 11:11:10 +01:00
COPYING * Change this to LGPL to keep the government happy. 2006-04-25 16:41:06 +00:00
default.nix Simplify shell.nix and default.nix 2020-06-17 19:21:46 +02:00
docker.nix docker: fix image so that nix profile works 2021-12-16 11:29:05 +01:00
flake.lock Revert "update flake.nix to 21.11" 2021-12-15 13:49:05 +01:00
flake.nix pkgconfig -> pkg-config 2021-12-15 19:13:06 +01:00
local.mk Remove 'dist' target 2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Makefile Add a test for RefScanSink and clean up the code 2021-10-04 14:29:42 +02:00
Makefile.config.in Apply OS checks to host platform, not build 2021-06-23 15:00:36 +00:00
precompiled-headers.h Config: Use nlohmann/json 2020-08-20 11:02:16 +02:00
README.md throw freenode down the memory hole 2021-05-27 21:48:39 +02:00
shell.nix Add back flake-compat shell.nix 2020-07-17 14:58:59 +00:00

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

On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):

$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.

Building And Developing

See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to build nix from source with nix-build or how to get a development environment.

Additional Resources

License

Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.