Eelco Dolstra
455d1f01d0
This reduces the risk of object liveness misdetection. For example, Glibc has an internal variable "mp_" that often points to a Boehm object, keeping it alive unnecessarily. Since we don't store any actual roots in global variables, we can just disable data segment scanning. With this, the max RSS doing 100 evaluations of nixos.tests.firefox.x86_64-linux.drvPath went from 718 MiB to 455 MiB.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at http://nixos.org/nix/manual.
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