From d103811173b7b608b2639af61d422736bf715a8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:58:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] lib.isStringLike: Remove use of list

In the current implementation of Nix, this list would be allocated
over and over. Iirc pennae tried to optimize static list allocation,
but gained no significant performance improvement.
---
 lib/strings.nix | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/strings.nix b/lib/strings.nix
index db89f60c480..2188fcb1dbf 100644
--- a/lib/strings.nix
+++ b/lib/strings.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ rec {
     isInt
     isList
     isAttrs
+    isPath
     isString
     match
     parseDrvName
@@ -821,7 +822,8 @@ rec {
      string interpolations and in most functions that expect a string.
    */
   isStringLike = x:
-    elem (typeOf x) [ "path" "string" ] ||
+    isString x ||
+    isPath x ||
     x ? outPath ||
     x ? __toString;