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| author | eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems> | 2024-03-08 09:52:15 +0100 |
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| committer | eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems> | 2024-03-10 03:18:32 -0600 |
| commit | b667b4cded1b9d974157f27761d8648b372d27bf (patch) | |
| tree | be37e4ecd58fee0a88664db5516b877d7683a0ab /doc/manual/rl-next/inherit-from-by-need.md | |
| parent | 71e0114708d406fdc0d9ca34d4b67cb190881439 (diff) | |
evaluate inherit (from) exprs only once per directive
desugaring inherit-from to syntactic duplication of the source expr also
duplicates side effects of the source expr (such as trace calls) and
expensive computations (such as derivationStrict).
(cherry picked from commit cefd0302b55b3360dbca59cfcb4bf6a750d6cdcf)
Change-Id: Iff519f991adef2e51683ba2c552d37a3df7a179e
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/inherit-from-by-need.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/inherit-from-by-need.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..67c2cdedf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/inherit-from-by-need.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +--- +synopsis: "`inherit (x) ...` evaluates `x` only once" +prs: 9847 +--- + +`inherit (x) a b ...` now evaluates the expression `x` only once for all inherited attributes rather than once for each inherited attribute. +This does not usually have a measurable impact, but side-effects (such as `builtins.trace`) would be duplicated and expensive expressions (such as derivations) could cause a measurable slowdown. |