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calling GC_malloc for each value is significantly more expensive than
allocating a bunch of values at once with GC_malloc_many. "a bunch" here
is a GC block size, ie 16KiB or less.
this gives a 1.5% performance boost when evaluating our nixos system.
tested with
nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
# on master
Time (mean ± σ): 3.335 s ± 0.007 s [User: 2.774 s, System: 0.293 s]
Range (min … max): 3.315 s … 3.347 s 50 runs
# with this change
Time (mean ± σ): 3.288 s ± 0.006 s [User: 2.728 s, System: 0.292 s]
Range (min … max): 3.274 s … 3.307 s 50 runs
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| libfetchers | ||
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| libstore | ||
| libutil | ||
| nix | ||
| nix-build | ||
| nix-channel | ||
| nix-collect-garbage | ||
| nix-copy-closure | ||
| nix-env | ||
| nix-instantiate | ||
| nix-store | ||
| nlohmann | ||
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