Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> I believe the reason packages from make-ld-wrapper were showing up
> multiple times in the cache for me is linked to it's use in the
> cross-base module, as part of the cross-gcc procedure.
>
> A later commit does change cross-gcc to return a single package record
> for some given arguments, so that probably resolves the biggest misuse
> of make-ld-wrapper.

Oh, I see.

Before resorting to memoization (which doesn’t come for free), we can
for instance make sure we do not create new package records from inputs
fields (since they are thunked, a fresh record would be created each
time the field is accessed).  Here’s an example: