Corbin
Corbin Simpson is a logician from Oregon. His interests include jazz piano, speedrunning, compiler engineering, site reliability engineering, and information security. Corbin has been a NixOS contributor for about a decade.
Session
04-17
11:45
30min
Regiux: prototyping a fast Nix interpreter
Corbin
The Nix expression language is challenging to evaluate due to non-strict semantics, dynamic scoping, a diverse collection of builtin operators, and tight integration with the Nix store. We give a progress report on Regiux, an interpreter for Nix which is narrowly focused on efficient evaluation of expressions.
Amphitheater Dussane