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eldritch horrors 80654b84b6 libexpr: de-ptr-ize Value references
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
2025-10-05 16:23:05 +02:00

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#pragma once
///@file
#include "lix/libexpr/symbol-table.hh"
#include "lix/libexpr/value.hh"
namespace nix {
/**
* Print a value in the deprecated format used by `nix-instantiate --eval` and
* `nix-env` (for manifests).
*
* This output can't be changed because it's part of the `nix-instantiate` API,
* but it produces ambiguous output; unevaluated thunks and lambdas (and a few
* other types) are printed as Nix path syntax like `<CODE>`.
*
* See: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/9730
*/
void printAmbiguous(
const Value & v,
const SymbolTable & symbols,
std::ostream & str,
std::set<const void *> * seen,
int depth
);
}