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authorAdam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>2022-10-15T23·10-0700
committertazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>2022-10-19T10·38+0000
commitd978b556e6d3189760e36fbc0fefe683618cf6ad (patch)
tree9eea21dfac3510b805ef202dd764143c1e03092e /tvix/OWNERS
parentc91d86ee5ccada2c3868170f263be2b3d396d759 (diff)
feat(tvix/eval): deduplicate overlap between Closure and Thunk r/5159
This commit deduplicates the Thunk-like functionality from Closure
and unifies it with Thunk.

Specifically, we now have one and only one way of breaking reference
cycles in the Value-graph: Thunk.  No other variant contains a
RefCell.  This should make it easier to reason about the behavior of
the VM.  InnerClosure and UpvaluesCarrier are no longer necessary.

This refactoring allowed an improvement in code generation:
`Rc<RefCell<>>`s are now created only for closures which do not have
self-references or deferred upvalues, instead of for all closures.
OpClosure has been split into two separate opcodes:

- OpClosure creates non-recursive closures with no deferred
  upvalues.  The VM will not create an `Rc<RefCell<>>` when executing
  this instruction.

- OpThunkClosure is used for closures with self-references or
  deferred upvalues.  The VM will create a Thunk when executing this
  opcode, but the Thunk will start out already in the
  `ThunkRepr::Evaluated` state, rather than in the
  `ThunkRepr::Suspeneded` state.

To avoid confusion, OpThunk has been renamed OpThunkSuspended.

Thanks to @sterni for suggesting that all this could be done without
adding an additional variant to ThunkRepr.  This does however mean
that there will be mutating accesses to `ThunkRepr::Evaluated`,
which was not previously the case.  The field `is_finalised:bool`
has been added to `Closure` to ensure that these mutating accesses
are performed only on finalised Closures.  Both the check and the
field are present only if `#[cfg(debug_assertions)]`.

Change-Id: I04131501029772f30e28da8281d864427685097f
Signed-off-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7019
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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