A modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth — and committed to doing right by its community
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vfork confers a large performance advantage over fork, measured locally at 16µs per vfork agains 90µs per fork. however nix *almost always* follows a vfork up with an execve-family call, melting the performance advantage from 6x to only 15%. in most of those cases it's doing things that are undefined behavior (like manipulating the heap, or even throwing exceptions and trashing the parent process stack). most notably the one place that could benefit from the vfork performance improvement is linux derivation sandbox setup—which doesn't use vfork. Change-Id: I2037b7384d5a4ca24da219a569e1b1f39531410e |
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Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the Nix manual for more details.
Installation
On Linux and macOS the easiest way to install Nix is to run the following shell command (as a user other than root):
$ curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Information on additional installation methods is available on the Nix download page.
Building And Developing
See our Hacking guide in our manual for instruction on how to to set up a development environment and build Nix from source.
Additional Resources
- Nix manual
- Nix jobsets on hydra.nixos.org
- NixOS Discourse
- Matrix - #nix:nixos.org
- IRC - #nixos on libera.chat
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1.