feat(tvix/glue): add nixpkgs eval benchmark r/7161

This adds a criterion.rs-based testbench into tvix-glue.

It can be invoked by running `cargo bench` from inside the `tvix-glue`
crate.
`target/criterion/report/index.html` contains nice graphs.
It's able to diff against the previous run, so you can invoke `cargo
bench` before and after a certain change to reason about the impact in
evaluation performance.

Currently, we need to create a bunch of Evaluator resources inside the
benchmark loop itself, which is a bit annoying, as it leaks into the
things we benchmark.

This should become better with b/262.

Fixes b/322.

Change-Id: I91656a308887baa1d459ed54d58baae919a4aaf2
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10245
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tvix/shell.nix b/tvix/shell.nix
index 4859b2b1aa..9a14554ac6 100644
--- a/tvix/shell.nix
+++ b/tvix/shell.nix
@@ -35,4 +35,13 @@ pkgs.mkShell {
     pkgs.libiconv
     pkgs.buildPackages.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security
   ];
+
+  # Set TVIX_BENCH_NIX_PATH to a somewhat pinned nixpkgs path.
+  # This is for invoking `cargo bench` imperatively on the developer machine.
+  # For tvix benchmarking across longer periods of time (by CI), we probably
+  # should also benchmark with a more static nixpkgs checkout, so nixpkgs
+  # refactorings are not observed as eval perf changes.
+  shellHook = ''
+    export TVIX_BENCH_NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=${pkgs.path}
+  '';
 }