[Nix-dev] contribute patches and support of AIX platform

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 03/16/2011 01:00 PM, Olexiy Buyanskyy wrote:

>> That's for linux. Maybe the nixpkgs evaluation in your system is very different,
>> but I don't think so. So, an interesting problem to solve. :)
> I have run under valgrind (callgrind) and see that 95% of time was
> spend in cloneAttrs(). I am using the latest stable release nix-0.16
> But interesting thing I do not see this function anymore in SVN trunk.

You should definitely try the latest Nix 1.0 prerelease 
(http://hydra.nixos.org/view/nix/trunk/latest).  Among other improvements, it 
has a garbage collector that should reduce memory usage, provided you build with 
--enable-gc.

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