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-<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
- xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- version="5.0"
- xml:id="ssec-relnotes-0.16">
-
-<title>Release 0.16 (2010-08-17)</title>
-
-<para>This release has the following improvements:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>The Nix expression evaluator is now much faster in most
- cases: typically, <link
- xlink:href="http://www.mail-archive.com/nix-dev@cs.uu.nl/msg04113.html">3
- to 8 times compared to the old implementation</link>. It also
- uses less memory. It no longer depends on the ATerm
- library.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Support for configurable parallelism inside builders. Build
- scripts have always had the ability to perform multiple build
- actions in parallel (for instance, by running <command>make -j
- 2</command>), but this was not desirable because the number of
- actions to be performed in parallel was not configurable. Nix
- now has an option <option>--cores
- <replaceable>N</replaceable></option> as well as a configuration
- setting <varname>build-cores =
- <replaceable>N</replaceable></varname> that causes the
- environment variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_CORES</envar> to be set to
- <replaceable>N</replaceable> when the builder is invoked. The
- builder can use this at its discretion to perform a parallel
- build, e.g., by calling <command>make -j
- <replaceable>N</replaceable></command>. In Nixpkgs, this can be
- enabled on a per-package basis by setting the derivation
- attribute <varname>enableParallelBuilding</varname> to
- <literal>true</literal>.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para><command>nix-store -q</command> now supports XML output
- through the <option>--xml</option> flag.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Several bug fixes.</para>
- </listitem>
-
-</itemizedlist>
-
-</section>