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Previously, Nix strings were represented as a Box (within Value)
pointing to a tuple of an optional context, and another Box pointing to
the actual string allocation itself. This is pretty inefficient, both in
terms of memory usage (we use 48 whole bytes for a None context!) and in
terms of the extra indirection required to get at the actual data. It
was necessary, however, because with native Rust DSTs if we had
something like `struct NixString(Option<NixContext>, BStr)` we could
only pass around *fat* pointers to that value (with the length in the
pointer) and that'd make Value need to be bigger (which is a waste of
both memory and cache space, since that memory would be unused for all
other Values).
Instead, this commit implements *manual* allocation of a packed string
representation, with the length *in the allocation* as a field past the
context. This requires a big old pile of unsafe Rust, but the payoff is
clear:
hello outpath time: [882.18 ms 897.16 ms 911.23 ms]
change: [-15.143% -13.819% -12.500%] (p = 0.00 < 0.05)
Performance has improved.
Fortunately this change can be localized entirely within
value/string.rs, since we were abstracting things out nicely.
Change-Id: Ibf56dd16c9c503884f64facbb7f0ac596463efb6
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With this change it's no longer necessary to track the SourceCode
struct separately from the evaluation for error reporting: It's just
stored directly in the errors.
This also ends up resolving an issue in compiler::bindings, where we
cloned the Arc containing file references way too often. In fact those
clones probably compensate for all additional SourceCode clones during
error construction now.
Change-Id: Ice93bf161e61f8ea3d48103435e20c53e6aa8c3a
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10986
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This is now the only enum variant for Value that is larger than 8
bytes (it's 16 bytes), so boxing it (especially since it's not
perf-critical) allows us to get the Value size down to only 16 bytes!
Change-Id: I98598e2b762944448bef982e8ff7da6d6683c4aa
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This reverts commit d3d41552cf1f6485f8ebc597a2128a0d15b030a5.
This was well-intentioned, but now the boxed Path values are actually
the *largest* Value enum variants, at 16 bytes (because they're
fat-pointers, with a len) instead of 8 bytes like all the other values.
Having the double reference is a reasonable price to pay (it seems; more
benchmarks may end up disagreeing) for a smaller Value repr.
Change-Id: I0d3e84f646c8f5ffd0b7259c4e456637eea360f7
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NixString is *quite* large - like 80 bytes - because of the extra
capacity value for BString and because of the context. We want to keep
Value small since we're passing it around a lot, so let's box the
NixString inside Value::String to save on some memory, and make cloning
ostensibly a little cheaper
Change-Id: I343c8b4e7f61dc3dcbbaba4382efb3b3e5bbabb2
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In the compiler, skip emitting an OpForce if the last op was an
OpConstant for a non-thunk constant. This gives a small (~1% on my
machine) perf boost, eg when evaluating hello.outPath:
❯ hyperfine \
"./before --no-warnings -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).hello.outPath'" \
"./after --no-warnings -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).hello.outPath'"
Benchmark 1: ./before --no-warnings -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).hello.outPath'
Time (mean ± σ): 1.151 s ± 0.022 s [User: 1.003 s, System: 0.151 s]
Range (min … max): 1.123 s … 1.184 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./after --no-warnings -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).hello.outPath'
Time (mean ± σ): 1.140 s ± 0.022 s [User: 0.989 s, System: 0.152 s]
Range (min … max): 1.115 s … 1.175 s 10 runs
Summary
./after --no-warnings -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).hello.outPath' ran
1.01 ± 0.03 times faster than ./before --no-warnings -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).hello.outPath'
Change-Id: I2105fd431d4bad699087907e16c789418e9a4062
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10714
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PathBuf internally contains a heap pointer (an OsString), so we were in
effect double-boxing here. Removing the extra layer by making
Tvix::Value represented by a Box<Path> rather than a Box<PathBuf> saves
us an indirection, while still avoiding the extra memory overhead of the
capacity which was the reason we were boxing PathBuf in the first place.
Change-Id: I8c185b9d4646161d1921917f83e87421496a3e24
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10725
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C++ nix uses C-style zero-terminated char pointers to represent strings
internally - however, up to this point, tvix has used Rust `String` and
`str` for string values. Since those are required to be valid utf-8, we
haven't been able to properly represent all the string values that Nix
supports.
To fix that, this change converts the internal representation of the
NixString struct from `Box<str>` to `BString`, from the `bstr` crate -
this is a wrapper around a `Vec<u8>` with extra functions for treating
that byte vector as a "morally string-like" value, which is basically
exactly what we need.
Since this changes a pretty fundamental assumption about a pretty core
type, there are a *lot* of changes in a lot of places to make this work,
but I've tried to keep the general philosophy and intent of most of the
code in most places intact. Most notably, there's nothing that's been
done to make the derivation stuff in //tvix/glue work with non-utf8
strings everywhere, instead opting to just convert to String/str when
passing things into that - there *might* be something to be done there,
but I don't know what the rules should be and I don't want to figure
them out in this change.
To deal with OS-native paths in a way that also works in WASM for
tvixbolt, this also adds a dependency on the "os_str_bytes" crate.
Fixes: b/189
Fixes: b/337
Change-Id: I5e6eb29c62f47dd91af954f5e12bfc3d186f5526
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10200
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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These need to be preserved at least for builtins.toXML.
Also, we incorrectly only wrote an <attrspat> in case ellipsis was true,
but that's not the case.
Change-Id: I6bff9c47c2922f878d5c43e48280cda9c9ddb692
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At least toXML wants to get these out in a sorted fashion.
Change-Id: I6373d7488fff7c40dc2ddeeecd03ba537c92c4af
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Change-Id: I92d58ef216d7e0766af70f019b3dcd445284a95d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10344
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This commit adds __curPos (to the global scope, yuck) and
builtins.filterSource. These are not implemented; forcing them will
produce the same result as `throw "message"`.
Unfortunately these two post-2.3 features are used throughout
nixpkgs. Since an unresolved indentifier is a catchable error, this
breaks the entire release eval. With this commit, it simply causes
those broken packages that use these features to appear as they are:
broken.
Change-Id: Ib43dea571f6a9fab4d54869349f80ee4ec5424c2
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10297
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Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
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Change-Id: I7bb5ac1ef47b41c47269e64cee0e90eb64c6fcce
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10322
Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
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Change-Id: I42f994d7c9228368d5f6c30c4730c24666f7bc69
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10320
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This commit fixes our handling of `throw` within an `assert`
condition.
Fixes: b/340
Change-Id: I40a383639ec266da50a853f16216b1b7868495da
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Fixes b/348.
Change-Id: I5e8d56b5fd26a19eac32ec5e11baf93765691dc8
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10296
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This fixes b/345.
Change-Id: Ic0d3b6ffacd2a5e0050d22354d08320b69a4fe13
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This commit adds Opcode::OpJumpIfCatchable, which can be inserted
ahead of most VM operations which expect a boolean on the stack, in
order to handle catchables in branching position properly.
Other than remembering to patch the jump, no other changes should be
required.
This commit also fixes b/343 by emitting this new opcode when
compiling if-then-else. There are probably other places where we
need to do the same thing.
Change-Id: I48de3010014c0bbeba15d34fc0d4800e0bb5a1ef
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Relates to b/321.
Change-Id: I37284f89b186e469eb432e2bbedb37aa125a6ad4
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This commit makes catchable errors a variant of Value.
The main downside of this approach is that we lose the ability to
use Rust's `?` syntax for propagating catchable errors.
Change-Id: Ibe89438d8a70dcec29e016df692b5bf88a5cad13
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/9289
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This commit creates a separate enum for "catchable" errors (the kind
that `builtins.tryEval` can detect).
Change-Id: Ie81d1112526d852255d9842f67045f88eab192af
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There's some more left, but they've been renamed/refactored out of
sight.
Change-Id: I41579dedc74342b4c5f8cb39d2995b5b0c90b0f4
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I've noticed this behavior when writing the admittedly cursed test case
included in this CL. Alternatively we could use some sort of machinery
using `builtins.trace`, but I don't think we capture stderr anywhere.
I've elected to put this into the eval cache itself while C++ Nix does
it in builtins.import already, namely via `realisePath`. We don't have
an equivalent for this yet, since we don't support any kind of IfD, but
we could revise that later. In any case, it seems good to encapsulate
`ImportCache` in this way, as it'll also allow using file hashes as
identifiers, for example.
C++ Nix also does our equivalent of canon_path in `builtins.import`
which we still don't, but I suspect it hardly makes a difference.
Change-Id: I05004737ca2458a4c67359d9e7d9a2f2154a0a0f
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8839
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When dealing with a formal argument in a function argument pattern that
has a default expression, there are two different things that can happen
at runtime: Either we select its value from the passed attribute
successfully or we need to use the default expression. Both of these may
be thunks and both of these may need finalisers. However, in the former
case this is taken care of elsewhere, the value will always be finalised
already if necessary. In the latter case we may need to finalise the
thunk resulting from the default expression. However, the thunk
corresponding to the expression may never end up in the local's stack
slot. Since finalisation goes by stack slot (and not constants), we need
to prevent a case where we don't fall back to the default expression,
but finalise anyways.
Previously, we worked around this by making `OpFinalise` ignore
non-thunks. Since finalisation of already evaluated thunks still
crashed, the faulty compilation of function pattern arguments could
still cause a crash.
As a new approach, we reinstate the old behavior of `OpFinalise` to
crash whenever encountering something that is either not a thunk or
doesn't need finalisation. This can also help catching (similar)
miscompilations in the future. To then prevent the crash, we need to
track whether we have fallen back or not at runtime. This is done using
an additional phantom on the stack that holds a new `FinaliseRequest`
value. When it comes to finalisation we check this value and
conditionally execute `OpFinalise` based on its value.
Resolves b/261 and b/265 (partially).
Change-Id: Ic04fb80ec671a2ba11fa645090769c335fb7f58b
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C++ Nix resolves home relative paths at [parse] time. This is not an
option for us, since it prevents being able to separate the compilation
and execution phase later (e.g. precompiled nix expressions). However, a
practical consequence of this is that paths expressions are always
literals (strict) and never thunks.
[parse]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/7066d21a0ddb421967980094222c4bc1f5a0f45a/src/libexpr/parser.y#L518-L527
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When comparing to C++ Nix, we notice that the thunking of default
expressions in function formals corresponds to their normal thunking,
e.g. literals are not thunked. This means that we can just invoke
compile() without much of a care and trust that it will sort it out
correctly.
If function formals blow up as a result of this, it likely indicates
that the expression is treated incorrectly by compile(), not
compile_param_pattern().
Change-Id: I64acbff2f251423eb72ce43e56a0603379305e1d
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C++ Nix forces and typechecks the passed argument even if it is not
necessary in order to compute the return value of the function. I
discovered this when I thought our formals miscompilation might be that
we are too strict, but doesn't look like it in this case.
Change-Id: Ifb3c92592293052c489d1e3ae8c7c54e4b6b4dc6
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Change-Id: I27f9105ddb20d84342550b2a73b479a7764ee3fe
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8699
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As cl/8658 and b/274 reveal, lambda expressions are also wrapped in
thunks.
Resolves b/274.
Change-Id: I02fe5c8730ac76748d940e4f4427116587875275
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HasAttrs was weird because with longer attribute paths it would
sometimes not turn out to be a thunk. If it was a thunk, it'd usually
still do some eval strictly which we'll want to avoid.
Verified against C++ Nix using a new test suite introduced in a later
CL.
Change-Id: I6d047ccc68d046bb268462f170a3c4f3c5ddeffe
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Probably no real world code broken by this overzealous evaluation, but
let's be thorough!
Change-Id: Ib405a677182eab7940ace940c68e107573473a54
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Unary operator applications are thunked which can easily be observed by
nix-instantiate --eval -E '[ (!true) (-1) ]'
Unfortunately, there are few simple expressions where this makes a
difference in the end result. Thus it only cropped up when using nixpkgs
for cross compilation: Here we would compile the expression
!(stdenv.cc.isGNU or false)
to assemble python3Minimal's passthru attribute set (at least this seems
to be the most likely explanation from the backtraces I've studied).
This means that an unthunked
<stdenv.cc.isGNU or false>
OpForce
OpInvert
would be performed in order to assemble this attribute set, causing
stdenv.cc to be evaluated too early, causing an infinite recursion.
Resolves b/273.
It seems that having a test suite that doesn't use --strict and relies
on thunks rendered as <CODE> would be beneficial for catching such
issues. I've not been able to find a test case with --strict that
demonstrates the problem fixed in this CL.
Change-Id: I640a5827b963f5b9d0f86fa2142e75e3a6bbee78
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Change-Id: Ie66cb1b163a544d45d113fd0f866286f230b0188
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This feature allows the compiler to detect situations where the
created thunk is useless and can be merged into the parent chunk
instead.
The only case where the compiler does this initially is when
statically optimising a select expression.
For example, previously the expression `builtins.length` compiled into
two thunks:
1. An "inner" thunk which contained an `OpConstant` that had the
optimised `length` builtin in it.
2. An "outer" thunk which contained an `OpConstant` to access the
inner thunk, and the trailing OpForce of the top-level program.
With this change, the inner thunk is skipped completely and the outer
chunk directly contains the `length` builtin access.
This can be applied in several situations, some easier than others,
and we will add them in as we go along.
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Emits the span of the `set` that is being accessed in the `force`
operation of an attribute access.
Looking at traces, it's a lot more useful to get information about
*what* is being forced, as in cases like `foo.bar` it can be
misleading to have an error highlight `bar`, when the error occured
while forcing `foo` to be able to access `bar` in the first place.
Change-Id: Id46ff28f20c67cb4971727ac52cc4811795cea2d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8272
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This produces traces in which we can see what kind of native code was
run. Note that these "names" are named after the generator message, so
these aren't *really* intended for end-user consumption, but we can
give them saner names later.
Example:
https://gist.github.com/tazjin/82b24e92ace8e821008954867ee05057
This already makes the traces a little easier to parse.
Change-Id: Idcd601baf84f492211b732ea0f04b377112e10d0
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8268
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When emitting an error at runtime, the VM will now use the new
`NativeError` and `BytecodeError` error kinds (which just wrap inner
errors) to create a set of diagnostics to emit.
The primary diagnostic is emitted last, with `error` type (so it will
be coloured red in terminals), the other ones will be emitted with
`note` type, highlighting the causal chain.
Example:
https://gist.github.com/tazjin/25feba7d211702453c9ebd5f8fd378e4
This is currently quite verbose, and we can cut down on this further,
but the purpose of this commit is to surface more information first of
all before worrying about the exact display.
Change-Id: I058104a178c37031c0db6b4b3e4f4170cf76087d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8266
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Wires up generator logic to emit warnings that already have spans
attached again.
Change-Id: I9f878cec3b9d4f6f7819e7c71bab7ae70bd3f08b
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Formals can be initialised with deferred default values (see the test
cases), in which case they need an extra thunk to have something that
can be finalised appropriately when the setup is done.
Fixes: b/255
Change-Id: I380e3770be68eaa83ace96d450c7cead32dacc9f
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This shaves another 8 bytes off Value. How did that type get so big?!
Change-Id: I65e9b59a1636bd57e3cc4aec5fea16887070b832
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8153
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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No longer needed, and in some cases caused some extra work.
Change-Id: I64e8e7292573bdc92a9c7a8e470e33f8c526f311
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8152
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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Warning: This is probably the biggest refactor in tvix-eval history,
so far.
This replaces all instances of trampolines and recursion during
evaluation of the VM loop with generators. A generator is an
asynchronous function that can be suspended to yield a message (in our
case, vm::generators::GeneratorRequest) and receive a
response (vm::generators::GeneratorResponsee).
The `genawaiter` crate provides an interpreter for generators that can
drive their execution and lets us move control flow between the VM and
suspended generators.
To do this, massive changes have occured basically everywhere in the
code. On a high-level:
1. The VM is now organised around a frame stack. A frame is either a
call frame (execution of Tvix bytecode) or a generator frame (a
running or suspended generator).
The VM has an outer loop that pops a frame off the frame stack, and
then enters an inner loop either driving the execution of the
bytecode or the execution of a generator.
Both types of frames have several branches that can result in the
frame re-enqueuing itself, and enqueuing some other work (in the
form of a different frame) on top of itself. The VM will eventually
resume the frame when everything "above" it has been suspended.
In this way, the VM's new frame stack takes over much of the work
that was previously achieved by recursion.
2. All methods previously taking a VM have been refactored into async
functions that instead emit/receive generator messages for
communication with the VM.
Notably, this includes *all* builtins.
This has had some other effects:
- Some test have been removed or commented out, either because they
tested code that was mostly already dead (nix_eq) or because they
now require generator scaffolding which we do not have in place for
tests (yet).
- Because generator functions are technically async (though no async
IO is involved), we lose the ability to use much of the Rust
standard library e.g. in builtins. This has led to many algorithms
being unrolled into iterative versions instead of iterator
combinations, and things like sorting had to be implemented from scratch.
- Many call sites that previously saw a `Result<..., ErrorKind>`
bubble up now only see the result value, as the error handling is
encapsulated within the generator loop.
This reduces number of places inside of builtin implementations
where error context can be attached to calls that can fail.
Currently what we gain in this tradeoff is significantly more
detailed span information (which we still need to bubble up, this
commit does not change the error display).
We'll need to do some analysis later of how useful the errors turn
out to be and potentially introduce some methods for attaching
context to a generator frame again.
This change is very difficult to do in stages, as it is very much an
"all or nothing" change that affects huge parts of the codebase. I've
tried to isolate changes that can be isolated into the parent CLs of
this one, but this change is still quite difficult to wrap one's mind
and I'm available to discuss it and explain things to any reviewer.
Fixes: b/238, b/237, b/251 and potentially others.
Change-Id: I39244163ff5bbecd169fe7b274df19262b515699
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8104
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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We currently send two warnings in case of detecting dead code - W008
inside compile_dead_code, and a more detailed warning in all places that
invoke compile_dead_code:
```
warning[W007]: useless operation on boolean: this expression is always false
--> /nix/store/qz3gjn95gazab4fkb7s8lm6hz17rdzzy-414z9nnj1wy66ymq6vgb693x9xjz6hf2-nixpkgs-src/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix:12079:15
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12079 | doCheck = false && !stdenv.isDarwin;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
warning[W008]: this code will never be executed
--> /nix/store/qz3gjn95gazab4fkb7s8lm6hz17rdzzy-414z9nnj1wy66ymq6vgb693x9xjz6hf2-nixpkgs-src/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix:12079:24
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12079 | doCheck = false && !stdenv.isDarwin;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
```
The place invoking `compile_dead_code` has more context to why the code
is unused, so it's error message is much more useful.
Stop emitting the less informative warning inside compile_dead_code
(W008), and update the comment that we expect the caller to emit a
warning.
I kept W008 itself still around, in case we end up having places this
will get used again.
Change-Id: I2c5d84fc0cb4035872cd4b71cc3e9e34e120eb37
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8024
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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As applies are thunked, there was no situation where OpCall could be
emitted. In practice, all calls were already tail calls.
Change-Id: Id0d441dcdd86f804d7cddd0cc14f589bbfc75e5b
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8147
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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Because they do not use it, and it can not be passed with the coming
generator refactoring.
Change-Id: I0d96f2357a7ee79cd8a0f401583d4286230d4a6b
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8146
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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Change-Id: I4c02f0104c455ac00a3f299c1fbf75cbb08e8972
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8142
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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This CL removes redundant clone from value which is
going to be dropped without further use.
Change-Id: Ibd2a724853c5cfbf8ca40bf0b3adf0fab89b9be5
Signed-off-by: Aaqa Ishtyaq <aaqaishtyaq@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8125
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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Plain paths like `foo/bar.nix` are also allowed, so we can not
determine this based on the prefix.
The upstream PR that is referenced in a comment here has a
significantly different interface than we expected, so I'm not
touching that comment yet in this CL before I've had more time to
digest it.
Change-Id: Iea33bbb35de9c00a7d7fedf64d02253c75c1cc9e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8032
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Reviewed-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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When resolving a select expression (`attrs.name` or `attrs.name or
default`), if the set compiles to a constant attribute set (as is most
notably the case with `builtins`) we can backtrack and replace that
attribute set directly with the compiled value.
For something like `builtins.length`, this will directly emit an
`OpConstant` that leaves the `length` builtin on the stack.
Change-Id: I639654e065a06e8cfcbcacb528c6da7ec9e513ee
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7957
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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This fixes a very complicated bug (b/246). Evaluation
progresses *much* further after this, leading to several less
complicated bugs likely being uncovered by this
What was the problem?
=====================
Previously, when evaluating a thunk, we had a code path that looked
like this:
match *thunk {
ThunkRepr::Evaluated(Value::Thunk(ref inner_thunk)) => {
let inner_repr = inner_thunk.0.borrow().clone();
drop(thunk);
self.0.replace(inner_repr);
}
/* ... */
}
This code path created a copy of the inner `ThunkRepr` of a nested
thunk, and moved that copy into the `ThunkRepr` of the parent.
The effect of this was that the original `ThunkRepr` (unforced!) lived
on in the original thunk, without the memoization of the subsequent
forcing applying to it.
This had the result that Tvix would repeatedly evaluate these thunks
without ever memoizing them, if they occured repeatedly as shared
inner thunks. Most notably, this would *always* occur when
builtins.import was used.
What's the solution?
====================
I have completely rewritten `Thunk::force_trampoline_self` to make all
flows that can occur in it explicit. I have also removed the outer
loop inside of that function, and resorted to more use of trampolining
instead.
The function is now well-commented and it should be possible to read
it from top-to-bottom and get a general sense of what is going on,
though the trampolining itself (which is implemented in the VM) needs
to be at least partially understood for this.
What's the new problem(s)?
==========================
One new (known) problem is that we have to construct `Error` instances
in all error types here, but we do not have spans available in some
thunk-related situations. Due to b/238 we cannot ask the VM for an
arbitrary span from the callsite leading to the force. This means that
there are now code paths where, under certain conditions, causing an
evaluation error during thunk forcing will panic.
To fix this we will need to investigate and fix b/238, and/or add a
span tracking mechanism to thunks themselves.
What other impacts does this have?
==================================
With this commit, eval of nixpkgs mostly succeeds (things like stdenv
evaluate to the same hashes for us and C++ Nix, meaning we now
construct identical derivations without eval breaking).
Due to this we progress much further into nixpkgs, which lets us
uncover more additional bugs. For example, after this commit we can
quickly see that cl/7949 introduces some kind of behavioural issue and
should not be merged as-is (this was not apparent before).
Additionally, tvix-eval is now seemingly very fast. When doing
performance analysis of a nixpkgs eval, we now mostly see the code
path for shelling out to C++ Nix to add things to the store in there.
We still need those code paths, so we can not (yet) do a performance
analysis beyond that.
Change-Id: I738525bad8bc5ede5d8c737f023b14b8f4160612
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8012
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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