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2022-10-11 r/5105 fix(tvix/eval/builtins): force acc not list element in foldl'sterni1-0/+8
When investigating discrepancies between foldl' in tvix and C++ Nix, I discovered that C++ Nix's foldl' doesn't seem to be strict at all. Since this seemed wrong, I looked into Haskell's foldl' implementation which doesn't force the list elements (`val` in our code), but the accumulation value (`res` in our code). You can look at the code here: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.17.0.0/docs/src/GHC.List.html#foldl%27 This actually makes a lot of sense: If `res` is not forced after each application of `op`, we'll end up thunks nested as deeply as the list is long, potentially taking up a lot of space. This can be limited by forcing the `res` thunk before applying `op` again (and creating a new thunk). I've also PR-ed an equivalent change for C++ Nix at https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7158. Since this is not merged nor backported to our Nix 2.3 fork, I've not copied the eval fail test yet, since it wouldn't when checking our tests against C++ Nix in depot. Change-Id: I34edf6fc3031fc1485c3e714f2280b4fba8f004b Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6947 Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI