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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-06-12T15·26+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-06-12T15·49+0200
commit0629601da1d163a059fa19004256961f8ecdeb78 (patch)
treeb69f528da3cfa0a33395216fc4224bb4a27f6af4 /src/libstore
parentc905d8b0a84877d3cab10d4a8b8ad81895a6500e (diff)
Move EvalState from the stack to the heap
EvalState contains a few counters (e.g. nrValues) that increase
quickly enough that they end up being interpreted as pointers by the
garbage collector. Moving it to the heap makes them invisible to the
garbage collector.

This reduces the max RSS doing 100 evaluations of
nixos.tests.firefox.x86_64-linux.drvPath from 455 MiB to 292 MiB.

Note: ideally, allocations would be much further up in the 64-bit
address space to reduce the odds of an integer being misinterpreted as
a pointer. Maybe we can use some linker magic to move the .bss segment
to a higher address.
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