* Store Value nodes outside of attribute sets. I.e., Attr now stores

  a pointer to a Value, rather than the Value directly.  This improves
  the effectiveness of garbage collection a lot: if the Value is
  stored inside the set directly, then any live pointer to the Value
  causes all other attributes in the set to be live as well.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval.hh b/src/libexpr/eval.hh
index 738ca9439f..ee7db91a08 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval.hh
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval.hh
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ struct Env
 
 struct Attr
 {
-    Value value;
+    Value * value;
     Pos * pos;
     Attr() : pos(&noPos) { };
 };
@@ -294,12 +294,15 @@ public:
 
     /* Automatically call a function for which each argument has a
        default value or has a binding in the `args' map. */
-    void autoCallFunction(const Bindings & args, Value & fun, Value & res);
+    void autoCallFunction(Bindings & args, Value & fun, Value & res);
     
     /* Allocation primitives. */
+    Value * allocValue();
     Value * allocValues(unsigned int count);
     Env & allocEnv(unsigned int size);
 
+    Value * allocAttr(Value & vAttrs, const Symbol & name);
+
     void mkList(Value & v, unsigned int length);
     void mkAttrs(Value & v);
     void mkThunk_(Value & v, Expr * expr);