eldritch horrors
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thunk values are shareable, and we can represent invalid/uninitialized values with a special bit pattern that makes no sense otherwise. there is no need to keep allocating values on the heap, instead we can treat values like reference-counted smart pointers to heap objects, which in turn lets us save a lot of allocations and, ultimately, gc heap space. compared to our baseline (main of 2025-09-27) we save 15%+ memory on a system rebuild and 17% on nix search. eval time regresses by ~3% for a system rebuild, while nix search is 7% faster. further optimization is probably possible (but for now this will just have to be good enough). Change-Id: Ib6c47acdbe2fac4f76a83c2269f16f30ef66b2e1
Lix
Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
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