pennae
4b2b0d3a55
turns out it's only necessary for MANUAL_VDB, which nix doesn't use. omitting
them gives a slight performance improvement on eval.
before:
Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
Time (mean ± σ): 6.988 s ± 0.061 s [User: 5.935 s, System: 0.845 s]
Range (min … max): 6.865 s … 7.075 s 20 runs
Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
Time (mean ± σ): 332.6 ms ± 3.9 ms [User: 299.6 ms, System: 32.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 328.1 ms … 339.1 ms 20 runs
Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
Time (mean ± σ): 2.681 s ± 0.049 s [User: 2.382 s, System: 0.228 s]
Range (min … max): 2.607 s … 2.776 s 20 runs
after:
Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
Time (mean ± σ): 6.946 s ± 0.041 s [User: 5.875 s, System: 0.835 s]
Range (min … max): 6.834 s … 7.005 s 20 runs
Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
Time (mean ± σ): 330.3 ms ± 2.5 ms [User: 299.2 ms, System: 30.9 ms]
Range (min … max): 327.5 ms … 337.7 ms 20 runs
Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
Time (mean ± σ): 2.671 s ± 0.035 s [User: 2.370 s, System: 0.232 s]
Range (min … max): 2.597 s … 2.749 s 20 runs
Nix
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
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.