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gives about 1% improvement on system eval, a bit less on nix search.

 # before

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      7.419 s ±  0.045 s    [User: 6.362 s, System: 0.794 s]
    Range (min … max):    7.335 s …  7.517 s    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.921 s ±  0.023 s    [User: 2.626 s, System: 0.210 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.883 s …  2.957 s    20 runs

 # after

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      7.370 s ±  0.059 s    [User: 6.333 s, System: 0.791 s]
    Range (min … max):    7.286 s …  7.541 s    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.891 s ±  0.033 s    [User: 2.606 s, System: 0.210 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.823 s …  2.958 s    20 runs
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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

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.