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2012-09-27 Allow dashes in identifiersEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
In Nixpkgs, the attribute in all-packages.nix corresponding to a package is usually equal to the package name. However, this doesn't work if the package contains a dash, which is fairly common. The convention is to replace the dash with an underscore (e.g. "dbus-lib" becomes "dbus_glib"), but that's annoying. So now dashes are valid in variable / attribute names, allowing you to write: dbus-glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus-glib { }; and buildInputs = [ dbus-glib ]; Since we don't have a negation or subtraction operation in Nix, this is unambiguous.
2012-09-19 Templatise tokenizeString()Eelco Dolstra3-3/+3
2012-08-27 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra5-23/+179
2012-08-13 Avoid concatenating lists of one stringEelco Dolstra2-2/+2
2012-08-13 Don't allocate empty listsEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
This saves about 4 MB when evaluating a NixOS system configuration.
2012-08-13 Optimise concatenating a list to an empty listEelco Dolstra1-2/+10
More precisely, in concatLists, if all lists except one are empty, then just return the non-empty list. This reduces the number of list element allocations by 32% when evaluating a NixOS system configuration.
2012-08-13 Add a primop ‘elemAt’ to get an element from a listEelco Dolstra1-5/+19
2012-08-13 Add a primop ‘concatLists’Eelco Dolstra3-8/+33
This can serve as a generic efficient list builder. For instance, the function ‘catAttrs’ in Nixpkgs can be rewritten from attr: l: fold (s: l: if hasAttr attr s then [(getAttr attr s)] ++ l else l) [] l to attr: l: builtins.concatLists (map (s: if hasAttr attr s then [(getAttr attr s)] else []) l) Statistics before: time elapsed: 1.08683 size of a value: 24 environments allocated: 1384376 (35809568 bytes) list elements: 6946783 (55574264 bytes) list concatenations: 37434 values allocated: 1760440 (42250560 bytes) attribute sets allocated: 392040 right-biased unions: 186334 values copied in right-biased unions: 591137 symbols in symbol table: 18273 number of thunks: 1297673 number of thunks avoided: 1380759 number of attr lookups: 430802 number of primop calls: 628912 number of function calls: 1333544 Statistics after (including new catAttrs): time elapsed: 0.959854 size of a value: 24 environments allocated: 1010198 (26829296 bytes) list elements: 1984878 (15879024 bytes) list concatenations: 30488 values allocated: 1589760 (38154240 bytes) attribute sets allocated: 392040 right-biased unions: 186334 values copied in right-biased unions: 591137 symbols in symbol table: 18274 number of thunks: 1040925 number of thunks avoided: 1038428 number of attr lookups: 438419 number of primop calls: 474844 number of function calls: 959366
2012-08-13 Provide an efficient implementation of ‘elem’Eelco Dolstra1-2/+17
The one in Nixpkgs is O(n^2), this one is O(n). Big reduction in the number of list allocations. Statistics before (on a NixOS system config): time elapsed: 1.17982 size of a value: 24 environments allocated: 1543334 (39624560 bytes) list elements: 9612638 (76901104 bytes) list concatenations: 37434 values allocated: 1854933 (44518392 bytes) attribute sets allocated: 392040 right-biased unions: 186334 values copied in right-biased unions: 591137 symbols in symbol table: 18272 number of thunks: 1392467 number of thunks avoided: 1507311 number of attr lookups: 430801 number of primop calls: 691600 number of function calls: 1492502 Statistics after: time elapsed: 1.08683 size of a value: 24 environments allocated: 1384376 (35809568 bytes) list elements: 6946783 (55574264 bytes) list concatenations: 37434 values allocated: 1760440 (42250560 bytes) attribute sets allocated: 392040 right-biased unions: 186334 values copied in right-biased unions: 591137 symbols in symbol table: 18273 number of thunks: 1297673 number of thunks avoided: 1380759 number of attr lookups: 430802 number of primop calls: 628912 number of function calls: 1333544
2012-08-13 Add a "filter" primopEelco Dolstra2-1/+26
Evaluation of a NixOS configuration spends quite a lot of time in the "filter" function in Nixpkgs. As implemented in Nixpkgs, this is a O(n^2) operation, so it's a good candidate for providing a more efficient (i.e. primop) implementation. Using it gives a ~10% speed increase and a significant reduction in the number of evaluations. Statistics before (on a NixOS system config): time elapsed: 1.3258 size of a value: 24 environments allocated: 1980939 (50127080 bytes) list elements: 14679308 (117434464 bytes) list concatenations: 50828 values allocated: 2098938 (50374512 bytes) attribute sets allocated: 392040 right-biased unions: 186334 values copied in right-biased unions: 591137 symbols in symbol table: 18271 number of thunks: 1645752 number of thunks avoided: 1921196 number of attr lookups: 430798 number of primop calls: 838807 number of function calls: 1930107 Statistics after: time elapsed: 1.17982 size of a value: 24 environments allocated: 1543334 (39624560 bytes) list elements: 9612638 (76901104 bytes) list concatenations: 37434 values allocated: 1854933 (44518392 bytes) attribute sets allocated: 392040 right-biased unions: 186334 values copied in right-biased unions: 591137 symbols in symbol table: 18272 number of thunks: 1392467 number of thunks avoided: 1507311 number of attr lookups: 430801 number of primop calls: 691600 number of function calls: 1492502
2012-08-12 Add some more evaluations statsEelco Dolstra2-1/+12
2012-08-12 Add some basic profiling support to the evaluatorEelco Dolstra4-4/+62
Setting the environment variable NIX_COUNT_CALLS to 1 enables some basic profiling in the evaluator. It will count calls to functions and primops as well as evaluations of attributes. For example, to see where evaluation of a NixOS configuration spends its time: $ NIX_SHOW_STATS=1 NIX_COUNT_CALLS=1 ./src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system --readonly-mode ... calls to 39 primops: 239532 head 233962 tail 191252 hasAttr ... calls to 1595 functions: 224157 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:19' 221767 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:14' 221767 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:10' ... evaluations of 7088 attributes: 167377 undefined position 132459 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/attrsets.nix:119:41' 47322 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/attrsets.nix:13:21' ...
2012-07-30 Refactor settings processingEelco Dolstra2-5/+5
Put all Nix configuration flags in a Settings object.
2012-07-26 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra11-58/+35
2012-07-25 prim_import: When importing .drvs, allocate the intermediate attrset on the ↵Shea Levy1-1/+1
heap just in case it escapes the stack frame.
2012-07-25 import: If the path is a valid .drv file, parse it and generate a derivation ↵Shea Levy1-1/+25
attrset. The generated attrset has drvPath and outPath with the right string context, type 'derivation', outputName with the right name, all with a list of outputs, and an attribute for each output. I see three uses for this (though certainly there may be more): * Using derivations generated by something besides nix-instantiate (e.g. guix) * Allowing packages provided by channels to be used in nix expressions. If a channel installed a valid deriver for each package it provides into the store, then those could be imported and used as dependencies or installed in environment.systemPackages, for example. * Enable hydra to be consistent in how it treats inputs that are outputs of another build. Right now, if an input is passed as an argument to the job, it is passed as a derivation, but if it is accessed via NIX_PATH (i.e. through the <> syntax), then it is a path that can be imported. This is problematic because the build being depended upon may have been built with non-obvious arguments passed to its jobset file. With this feature, hydra can just set the name of that input to the path to its drv file in NIX_PATH
2012-07-18 Use "#pragma once" to prevent repeated header file inclusionEelco Dolstra10-57/+10
2012-07-18 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifestsEelco Dolstra3-14/+5
2012-07-17 Remove dead codeEelco Dolstra2-13/+0
2012-07-12 builtins.storePath: resolve symlinksEelco Dolstra1-1/+5
Needed for Charon/Hydra interaction.
2012-07-11 nix-env: Determine which paths have substitutes in parallelEelco Dolstra1-1/+6
2012-07-09 prim_import(): prefetch substitute info in parallel using queryMissing()Eelco Dolstra1-0/+6
2012-06-27 nix-store -r: do substitutions in parallelEelco Dolstra1-1/+1
I.e. when multiple non-derivation arguments are passed to ‘nix-store -r’ to be substituted, do them in parallel.
2012-04-13 Use Bison 2.5Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2012-03-05 Fix compilation on FreeBSDEelco Dolstra2-0/+2
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2213576 Not sure why compilation doesn't fail on other platforms...
2012-02-09 Fix error messageEelco Dolstra1-3/+4
This fixes the error message error: file `' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)
2012-02-04 * Inline some functions and get rid of the indirection throughEelco Dolstra6-116/+93
EvalState::eval(). This gives a 12% speedup on ‘nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos/ -A system --readonly-mode’ (from 1.01s to 0.89s).
2012-02-04 * Print elapsed evaluation time.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+9
2012-01-26 * Fix importing a derivation. This gave a segfault.Eelco Dolstra1-8/+23
2012-01-19 * Allow comparisons between derivations by comparing the outPathEelco Dolstra1-2/+14
attributes.
2012-01-19 * Add some debug output to print the derivation name once it's known.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+4
This makes it easier to pinpoint the source of a crash.
2012-01-07 * Don't create thunks for simple constants (integers, strings, paths)Eelco Dolstra5-133/+193
and allocate them only once. * Move Value and related functions into value.hh.
2012-01-04 * Remove dead code.Eelco Dolstra2-4/+0
2012-01-04 * Don't use dynamic_cast, it's very slow. "nix-instantiateEelco Dolstra3-24/+23
/etc/nixos/nixos -A system" spent about 10% of its time in dynamic_cast.
2012-01-03 * Drop the inefficient "Path" suffix in output attribute names.Eelco Dolstra1-3/+1
2012-01-03 * Move the implementation of the ‘derivation’ primop into a separateEelco Dolstra2-25/+3
file.
2011-12-21 * The ‘foo.drvPath’ feature was already broken in read-only mode.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+2
Since it's rarely used and fixing it is too much work right now, just document it.
2011-12-21 * Simplify the context handling logic.Eelco Dolstra1-24/+13
2011-12-16 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra3-14/+16
2011-12-02 * Move parseHash16or32 into libutil, and use in nix-hash.Eelco Dolstra1-11/+1
2011-12-01 * Allow '<nixexpr>' syntax to be used in nix-instantiate, nix-buildEelco Dolstra2-0/+13
and nix-env, e.g., $ nix-env -f '<nixpkgs>' -i patchelf or $ nix-build '<nixos/tests>' -A login.test
2011-11-06 There's no need to mess with drvPath at allShea Levy1-6/+4
2011-11-06 Fix faulty reversion of my changes to unsafeDiscardOutputDependencyShea Levy1-1/+1
2011-11-06 Respect all outputs passed to the derivation, not just the last oneShea Levy1-1/+3
2011-11-06 Remove the unused sCurrentOutput symbolShea Levy2-2/+1
2011-11-06 Embed output name into the context of the *OutPath attributes and extract it ↵Shea Levy1-2/+9
for input derivations Multiple outputs test passes!
2011-11-06 Include all outputs of derivations in the closure of explicitly-passed ↵Shea Levy1-2/+8
derivation paths This required adding a queryOutputDerivationNames function in the store API
2011-11-06 The 'insert output between = signs' approach was not helpfulShea Levy1-9/+2
2011-11-06 Merge from trunkShea Levy1-3/+6
2011-10-27 * In printValueAsXML, handle the case where a "type" attribute is notEelco Dolstra1-3/+6
a string. This happens in the NixOS option system. * Remove a bogus comparison of a unsigned integer with -1.