nix-super/doc/manual/rl-next/inherit-from-by-need.md
pennae cefd0302b5 evaluate inherit (from) exprs only once per directive
desugaring inherit-from to syntactic duplication of the source expr also
duplicates side effects of the source expr (such as trace calls) and
expensive computations (such as derivationStrict).
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synopsis: "`inherit (x) ...` evaluates `x` only once"
prs: 9847
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`inherit (x) a b ...` now evaluates the expression `x` only once for all inherited attributes rather than once for each inherited attribute.
This does not usually have a measurable impact, but side-effects (such as `builtins.trace`) would be duplicated and expensive expressions (such as derivations) could cause a measurable slowdown.