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+Release 0.16 (August 16, 2010)
+
+This release has the following improvements:
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+
+
+
+ The Nix expression evaluator is now much faster in most
+ cases: typically, 3
+ to 8 times compared to the old implementation. It also
+ uses less memory. It no longer depends on the ATerm
+ library.
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+
+
+
+ Support for configurable parallelism inside builders. Build
+ scripts have always had the ability to perform multiple build
+ actions in parallel (for instance, by running make -j
+ 2), but this was not desirable because the number of
+ actions to be performed in parallel was not configurable. Nix
+ now has an option as well as a configuration
+ setting build-cores =
+ N that causes the
+ environment variable NIX_BUILD_CORES to be set to
+ N when the builder is invoked. The
+ builder can use this at its discretion to perform a parallel
+ build, e.g., by calling make -j
+ N. In Nixpkgs, this can be
+ enabled on a per-package basis by setting
+ enableParallelBuilding to
+ true.
+
+
+
+
+ nix-store -q now supports XML output
+ through the flag.
+
+
+
+ Several bug fixes.
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+
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+
+
+
+
Release 0.15 (March 17, 2010)