This saves the construction of an unused `pkgs` attrset and all that
is required to reach that, which is not a lot, but still significant.
Benchmark 1: nix eval .?ref=42608bc8e65c5bf596d6155ad2f0ded6253b1e69#hello.outPath --no-eval-cache
Time (mean ± σ): 1.062 s ± 0.011 s [User: 0.674 s, System: 0.226 s]
Range (min … max): 1.040 s … 1.080 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: nix eval .?ref=8a7e18b270cb2256a0526b9cda1d9e410aacd440#hello.outPath --no-eval-cache
Time (mean ± σ): 1.317 s ± 0.033 s [User: 0.835 s, System: 0.270 s]
Range (min … max): 1.282 s … 1.371 s 10 runs
Summary
nix eval .?ref=42608bc8e65c5bf596d6155ad2f0ded6253b1e69#hello.outPath --no-eval-cache ran
1.24 ± 0.03 times faster than nix eval .?ref=8a7e18b270cb2256a0526b9cda1d9e410aacd440#hello.outPath --no-eval-cache
(where 42608bc had the same tree as this commit)
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