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2011-07-06 * In the ‘?’ operator, allow attribute paths. For instance, you canEelco Dolstra4-24/+47
write ‘attrs ? a.b’ to test whether ‘attrs’ has an attribute ‘a’ containing an attribute ‘b’. This is more convenient than ‘attrs ? a && attrs.a ? b’. Slight change in the semantics: it's no longer an error if the left-hand side of ‘?’ is not an attribute set. In that case it just returns false. So, ‘null ? foo’ no longer throws an error.
2011-02-10 * Don't allocate a big initial GC address space on machines withEelco Dolstra1-11/+24
little RAM. Even if the memory isn't actually used, it can cause problems with the overcommit heuristics in the kernel. So use a VM space of 25% of RAM, up to 384 MB.
2011-02-09 * Don't call GC_expand_hp unless we're actually using the garbageEelco Dolstra1-0/+18
collector.
2011-02-09 Use $BDW_GC_LIBS instead of a custom variable.Ludovic Courtès1-1/+1
2011-01-14 * builtins.substring: if "start" is beyond the end of the string,Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
return the empty string.
2010-11-25 * DrvInfo contains pointers to expressions, so DrvInfos should beEelco Dolstra1-0/+4
traced by the garbage collector. Otherwise "nix-env -u" can crash randomly.
2010-10-28 * new(UseGC) is inexplicably slower than GC_MALLOC, so prefer theEelco Dolstra1-4/+4
latter.
2010-10-28 * Handle out of memory condition.Eelco Dolstra1-5/+5
2010-10-24 * When allocating an attribute set, reserve enough space for allEelco Dolstra3-25/+18
elements. This prevents the vector from having to resize itself.
2010-10-24 * Keep attribute sets in sorted order to speed up attribute lookups.Eelco Dolstra9-139/+172
* Simplify the representation of attributes in the AST. * Change the behaviour of listToAttrs() in case of duplicate names.
2010-10-24 * Don't create thunks for variable lookups (if possible). ThisEelco Dolstra3-23/+60
significantly reduces the number of values allocated (e.g. from 8.7m to 4.9m for the Bittorrent test).
2010-10-24 * Store attribute sets as a vector instead of a map (i.e. a red-blackEelco Dolstra7-90/+129
tree). This saves a lot of memory. The vector should be sorted so that names can be looked up using binary search, but this is not the case yet. (Surprisingly, looking up attributes using linear search doesn't have a big impact on performance.) Memory consumption for $ nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos/tests -A bittorrent.test --readonly-mode on x86_64-linux with GC enabled is now 185 MiB (compared to 946 MiB on the trunk).
2010-10-23 * Fix compiling without Boehm.Eelco Dolstra1-10/+8
* Fix the stats.
2010-10-23 * Optimise string constants by putting them in the symbol table.Eelco Dolstra4-39/+55
2010-10-23 * Make Value smaller by not storing redundant PrimOp info.Eelco Dolstra2-25/+44
* Clear pointers in Values after overwriting them to make sure that no objects are kept alive unnecessarily.
2010-10-23 * Remove allocValues().Eelco Dolstra3-34/+12
2010-10-22 * In environments, store pointers to values rather than values. ThisEelco Dolstra2-35/+25
improves GC effectiveness a bit more (because a live value doesn't keep other values in the environment plus the parent environments alive), and removes the need for copy nodes.
2010-10-22 * Store Value nodes outside of attribute sets. I.e., Attr now storesEelco Dolstra12-116/+135
a pointer to a Value, rather than the Value directly. This improves the effectiveness of garbage collection a lot: if the Value is stored inside the set directly, then any live pointer to the Value causes all other attributes in the set to be live as well.
2010-10-22 * Make building against the Boehm GC a configure option.Eelco Dolstra3-7/+25
2010-10-20 * Keep some more stats.Eelco Dolstra2-0/+12
2010-10-20 * Use the Boehm garbage collector to reclaim unused memory in the NixEelco Dolstra3-11/+20
expression evaluator.
2010-10-04 * Make sure that config.h is included before the system headers,Eelco Dolstra7-18/+16
because it defines _FILE_OFFSET_BITS. Without this, on OpenSolaris the system headers define it to be 32, and then the 32-bit stat() ends up being called with a 64-bit "struct stat", or vice versa. This also ensures that we get 64-bit file sizes everywhere. * Remove the redundant call to stat() in parseExprFromFile(). The file cannot be a symlink because that's the exit condition of the loop before.
2010-10-04 * If std::tr1::unordered_set is unavailable, use std::set.Eelco Dolstra1-0/+9
2010-10-04 * Hack needed for GCC 4.3.2 on OpenSolaris.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-08-27 * Oops - "null" was displayed as "true".Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-08-02 * Optimisation in the // operator: if one of the sets is empty, returnEelco Dolstra1-6/+8
the other set.
2010-08-02 * intersectAttrs: optimise for the case where the second set is largerEelco Dolstra1-7/+7
than the first set. (That's usually the case with callPackage.)
2010-06-10 * builtins.toXML: propagate the string context. This is a regressionEelco Dolstra3-5/+12
from the old ATerm-based evaluator.
2010-06-02 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+1
2010-06-01 * Turn build errors during evaluation into EvalErrors.Eelco Dolstra2-1/+6
2010-05-18 * The << operator on values should be const.Eelco Dolstra3-3/+3
2010-05-15 * Restore the __overrides feature that was lost somewhere in theEelco Dolstra2-3/+21
fast-eval branch.
2010-05-12 * Print attributes in sorted order.Eelco Dolstra1-2/+7
2010-05-12 * Implemented tryEval, the last missing primop in the fast-evalEelco Dolstra1-12/+6
branch. Also added a test for tryEval.
2010-05-07 (no commit message)Eelco Dolstra1-0/+2
2010-05-07 * Sync with the trunk.Eelco Dolstra3-21/+45
2010-05-07 * Store position info for inherited attributes.Eelco Dolstra4-25/+29
2010-05-07 * Updated addErrorContext.Eelco Dolstra1-6/+7
2010-05-07 * Keep track of the source positions of attributes.Eelco Dolstra7-76/+107
2010-05-06 * Store attribute positions in the AST and report duplicate attributeEelco Dolstra5-54/+53
errors with position info. * For all positions, use the position of the first character of the first token, rather than the last character of the first token plus one.
2010-04-23 * Don't need the test program anymore.Eelco Dolstra2-135/+0
2010-04-22 * Simplify the implementation of `with'. This gives a 7% speedup inEelco Dolstra4-30/+15
evaluating the NixOS system configuration.
2010-04-22 * Check for duplicate attribute names / function arguments. `makeEelco Dolstra2-44/+48
check' now succeeds :-) * An attribute set such as `{ foo = { enable = true; }; foo.port = 23; }' now parses. It was previously rejected, but I'm too lazy to implement the check. (The only reason to reject it is that the reverse, `{ foo.port = 23; foo = { enable = true; }; }', is rejected, which is kind of ugly.)
2010-04-22 * String equality tests should take the context into account. All theEelco Dolstra2-4/+12
evaluation test cases now succeed.
2010-04-21 * Fix the interpretation of ''\<character> in indented strings.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-04-21 * Fixed builtins.genericClosure.Eelco Dolstra3-26/+62
2010-04-21 * Store user environment manifests as a Nix expression inEelco Dolstra5-40/+38
$out/manifest.nix rather than as an ATerm. (Hm, I thought I committed this two days ago...)
2010-04-19 * Drop the dependency on the ATerm library.Eelco Dolstra1-4/+2
2010-04-19 * Don't use the ATerm library for parsing/printing .drv files.Eelco Dolstra1-1/+1
2010-04-19 * Added parsing of manifests in ATerm format.Eelco Dolstra2-6/+15