[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 19980 - viric - nix/branches

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

Lluís Batlle wrote:

> I had the feeling that it becomes hard for us to follow the aterm
> development.

Well, there hardly is any upstream development.  So there is not much to follow
:-)  The only problem is the occasional 64-bit or optimization bug triggered by
new GCC releases.

Reimplementing aterm-like functionality isn't entirely trivial.  For instance,
you need a garbage collector (though we could just use the Boehm GC).

It might be better to figure out:

- Why some people have weird segfaults (I haven't seen them lately myself).
- How to reduce memory consumption of the Nix expression evaluator.

-- 
Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/