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doc/manual/source/release-notes/rl-2.33.md

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 ## Performance improvements
 
-- Git fetcher computes `revCount`s using multiple threads [#14462](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14462) 
+- Git fetcher computes `revCount`s using multiple threads [#14462](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14462)
 
   When using Git repositories with a long history, calculating the `revCount` attribute can take a long time. Nix now computes `revCount` using multiple threads, making it much faster (e.g. 9.1s to 3.7s for Nixpkgs).
 
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
 
   Upstreamed from [Determinate Nix 3.12.2](https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-src/pull/245).
 
+- `builtins.stringLength` now runs in constant time [#14442](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14442)
+
+  The internal representation of strings has been replaced with a size-prefixed Pascal style string. Previously Nix stored strings as a NUL-terminated array of bytes, necessitating a linear scan to calculate the length.
+
+- Uploads to `http://` and `https://` binary cache stores now run in constant memory [#14390](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14390)
+
+  Nix used to buffer the whole compressed NAR contents in memory. It now reads it in a streaming fashion.
+
 - Channel URLs migrated to channels.nixos.org subdomain [#14517](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/14517) [#14518](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14518)
 
   Channel URLs have been updated from `https://nixos.org/channels/` to `https://channels.nixos.org/` throughout Nix. This subdomain provides better reliability with IPv6 support and improved CDN distribution. The old domain apex (`nixos.org/channels/`) currently redirects to the new location but may be deprecated in the future.
@@ -44,6 +52,16 @@
 
   Many thanks go out to the [Lix project](https://lix.systems/) for the [implementation](https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/commit/4ae6fb5a8f0d456b8d2ba2aaca3712b4e49057fc) that served as inspiration for this change and for triaging libcurl [issues with pausing](https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/19334).
 
+- Significantly improve tarball unpacking performance [#14689](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14689) [#14696](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14696) [#10683](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10683) [#11098](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11098)
+
+  Nix uses a content-addressed cache backed by libgit2 for deduplicating files fetched via `fetchTarball` and `github`, `tarball` flake inputs. Its usage has been significantly optimised to reduce the amount of I/O operations that are performed. For a typical nixpkgs source tarball this results in 200 times fewer system calls on Linux. In combination with libcurl pausing this alleviates performance regressions stemming from the tarball cache.
+
+- Already valid derivations are no longer copied to the store [#14219](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14219)
+
+  This results in a modest speedup when using the Nix daemon.
+
+- `nix nar ls` and `nix nar cat` are significantly faster and no longer buffer the whole NAR in memory [#14273](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14273) [#14732](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14732)
+
 ## S3 improvements
 
 - Improved S3 binary cache support via HTTP [#11748](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11748) [#12403](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/12403) [#12671](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/12671) [#13084](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13084) [#13752](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13752) [#13823](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13823) [#14026](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14026) [#14120](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14120) [#14131](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14131) [#14135](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14135) [#14144](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14144) [#14170](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14170) [#14190](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14190) [#14198](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14198) [#14206](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14206) [#14209](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14209) [#14222](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14222) [#14223](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14223) [#14330](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14330) [#14333](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14333) [#14335](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14335) [#14336](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14336) [#14337](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14337) [#14350](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14350) [#14356](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14356) [#14357](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14357) [#14374](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14374) [#14375](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14375) [#14376](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14376) [#14377](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14377) [#14391](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14391) [#14393](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14393) [#14420](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14420) [#14421](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14421)
@@ -192,6 +210,23 @@ Version 3 and earlier formats are *not* accepted when reading.
   This issue is now fixed, so REPL commands such as `:b` or `:p` can be canceled consistently.
   This is a cherry-pick of the change from the [Lix project](https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/1097).
 
+- NAR unpacking code has been rewritten to make use of dirfd-based `openat` and `openat2` system calls when available [#14597](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14597)
+
+- Dynamic size unit rendering [#14423](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14423) [#14364](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/14364)
+
+  Various commands and the progress bar now use dynamically determined size units instead
+  of always using `MiB`. For example, the progress bar now reports download status like:
+
+  ```
+  [1/196/197 copied (773.7 MiB/2.1 GiB), 172.4/421.5 MiB DL]
+  ```
+
+  Instead of:
+
+  ```
+  [1/196/197 copied (773.7/2147.3 MiB), 172.4/421.5 MiB DL]
+  ```
+
 ## Contributors
 
 This release was made possible by the following 33 contributors: