Eelco Dolstra
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copyStorePath() now pipes the output of srcStore->narFromPath() directly into dstStore->addToStore(). The sink used by the former is converted into a source usable by the latter using boost::coroutine2. This is based on [1]. This reduces the maximum resident size of $ nix build --store ~/my-nix/ /nix/store/b0zlxla7dmy1iwc3g459rjznx59797xy-binutils-2.28.1 --substituters file:///tmp/binary-cache-xz/ --no-require-sigs from 418592 KiB to 53416 KiB. (The previous commit also reduced the runtime from ~4.2s to ~3.4s, not sure why.) A further improvement will be to download files into a Sink. [1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/compare/master...Mathnerd314:dump-fix-coroutine#diff-dcbcac55a634031f9cc73707da6e4b18 Issue #1969.
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.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.