Open infinisil opened 3 months ago
Is IFD in scope for this? Since it has an impact on evaluation performance.
@asymmetric Good point, sounds in scope to me!
Interesting topic! Let's say I want to manage 100-1000 servers - how does this scale with NixOS? Even with just 3 servers in my flake it feels like a drag sometimes.
Not directly eval performance, but I'd be interested to know more how nix can avoid recomputing things which are already in the store, or in a substituter. E.g. I expect fixed output derivations or content-addressed derivations 'prune' the evaluation that needs to happen if they're already in the store?
And somewhat related, how does the 'toFile' built-in impact evaluation
Not directly eval performance, but I'd be interested to know more how nix can avoid recomputing things which are already in the store
Yeah, that's a good one. I am sometimes puzzled about how much recomputing it takes to change (seemingly?) little things. Would be good to know how to "debug" this.
Let's investigate Nix evaluation performance! We could cover things like:
We will focus on this topic this week at Wednesday 15:00 CEST! If anybody has any extra questions about this topic, either: