[Nix-dev] Re: Understanding nix evaluation

[Lluís Batlle]

Nicolas pointed me to the Maximal Laziness paper, which answered my question.

What I now don't understand, is how to make nix use less memory, still
keeping the maximal laziness property.

2010/2/27 Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> maybe the question goes mostly to Eelco.
>
> I still have not understood why the evaluation fails if we remove the
> cache in evalExpr(). Isn't the aterm garbage collection working well?
> Are we using Aterms in such a way that the garbage collection cannot
> work?
>
> Regards,
> Lluís.
>