refactor(tvix): completely remove boehm gc r/1646

We have decided that leaking memory is a better fate than random,
non-debuggable memory corruption. Future CLs will begin changing
various fields to std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr.

It turns out that disabling the GC does not have disasterous impact.
The Nix evaluator only runs on the client CLI, never in any long-
running process. Even the REPL does not leak too badly under this
change, because it uses one EvalState for the duration of the REPL.

Building an explicitly tracing garbage collector is likely in the
future of this project, but that giant amount of work cannot be
done under a nix evaluator that is constantly crashing. We need to
restore development velocity here, and this is the best way we've
figured out to do it.

Change-Id: I2fcda8fcee853c15a9a5e22eca7c5a784bc2bf76
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/1720
Reviewed-by: glittershark <grfn@gws.fyi>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <mail@tazj.in>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/third_party/nix/default.nix b/third_party/nix/default.nix
index f9ed4749e6b5..fc3ed792e25f 100644
--- a/third_party/nix/default.nix
+++ b/third_party/nix/default.nix
@@ -12,12 +12,6 @@ let
     customMemoryManagement = false;
   };
 
- # TODO(tazjin): this is copied from the original derivation, but what
- # is it for?
-  largeBoehm = pkgs.boehmgc.override {
-    enableLargeConfig = true;
-  };
-
   src = ./.;
 
   # Proto generation in CMake is theoretically possible, but that is
@@ -84,7 +78,6 @@ in lib.fix (self: pkgs.llvmPackages.libcxxStdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = with pkgs; [
     boost
-    largeBoehm
   ];
 
   configurePhase = ''