bug#27284: Memory leak in 'guix pull' or 'make' in guix source

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> [...]
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>> There’s also the option of not compiling (gnu packages *) and instead
>> evaluating them, but currently this is too costly in terms of memory
>> and CPU.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Can't we leave this to auto-compilation during normal use of guix?

We’d have the same problem, only at a different point in time (it might
even be worse because auto-compilation would use -O2 instead of -O0.)

Ludo’.