From 1eb4da156cca1b1981ab1f60bb9797ed1e93101a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:22:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * Performance improvement: don't register already registered
 terms,   thus greatly reducing the number of db transactions.

---
 src/expr.cc | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/expr.cc b/src/expr.cc
index 2ed3e678b3..521dffc9c6 100644
--- a/src/expr.cc
+++ b/src/expr.cc
@@ -37,12 +37,15 @@ Path writeTerm(ATerm t, const string & suffix)
 
     Path path = canonPath(nixStore + "/" + 
         (string) h + suffix + ".nix");
-    if (!ATwriteToNamedTextFile(t, path.c_str()))
-        throw Error(format("cannot write aterm %1%") % path);
 
-    Transaction txn(nixDB);
-    registerValidPath(txn, path);
-    txn.commit();
+    if (!isValidPath(path)) {
+        if (!ATwriteToNamedTextFile(t, path.c_str()))
+            throw Error(format("cannot write aterm %1%") % path);
+
+        Transaction txn(nixDB);
+        registerValidPath(txn, path);
+        txn.commit();
+    }
 
     return path;
 }