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We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
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Functions in Nix are anonymous, but if they're assigned to a
variable/attribute, we can use the variable/attribute name in error
messages, e.g.
while evaluating `concatMapStrings' at `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/strings.nix:18:25':
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tree). This saves a lot of memory. The vector should be sorted so
that names can be looked up using binary search, but this is not the
case yet. (Surprisingly, looking up attributes using linear search
doesn't have a big impact on performance.)
Memory consumption for
$ nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos/tests -A bittorrent.test --readonly-mode
on x86_64-linux with GC enabled is now 185 MiB (compared to 946
MiB on the trunk).
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table. This gives a 10% speed increase on `nix-instantiate
/etc/nixos/nixos -A system --readonly-mode'.
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efficiently. The symbol table ensures that there is only one copy
of each symbol, thus allowing symbols to be compared efficiently
using a pointer equality test.
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