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2022-09-06 r/4658 fix(tvix/eval): correctly thread through dynamic upvaluesVincent Ambo6-12/+112
This puts together the puzzle pieces for threading dynamic upvalues (that is, upvalues resolved from the `with`-stack) all the way through. Reading the test case enclosed in this commit and walking through it is recommended to understand what problem is being tackled here. In short, because the compiler can not statically know *which* with-scope a dynamic argument is resolved from it needs to lay the groundwork for resolving from *all* possible scopes. There are multiple different approaches to doing this. The approach chosen in this commit is that if a dynamic upvalue is detected, the compiler will emit instructions to close over this dynamic value in *all* enclosing lambda contexts. It uses a new instruction for this that will leave around a sentinel value in case an identifier could not be resolved, and wire the location of this found value (or sentinel) up through the upvalues to the next level of nesting. In this tradeoff, tvix potentially closes over more upvalues than are needed (but in practice, how often do people create *really* deep `with`-stacks? and in *this* kind of code situation? maybe we should even warn for this!) but avoids keeping the entire attribute sets themselves around. Looking at the test case, each surrounding closure will close over *all* dynamic identifiers that are referenced later on visible to it, but only the last one for each identifier will actually end up being used. This also covers our bases for an additional edge-case this creates, in which an identifier potentially resolves to a dynamic upvalue *and* to a dynamic value within the function's own scope (again, would anyone really do this?) by introducing a resolution instruction for that particular case. There is likely some potential for cleaning up this code which is quite ugly in some parts, but as this implementation is now carefully calibrated to work I decided it is time to commit it and clean it up in subsequent commits. Change-Id: Ib701e3e6da39bd2c95938d1384036ff4f9fb3749 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6322 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
2022-09-06 r/4657 refactor(tvix/eval): thread dynamic upvalues through all contextsVincent Ambo2-9/+65
With this change, encountering a dynamic upvalue will thread through all contexts starting from the lowest context that has a non-empty `with`-stack. The additional upvalues are not actually used yet, so the effective behaviour remains mostly the same. This is done in preparation for an upcoming change, which will implement proper dynamic resolution for complex cases of nested dynamic upvalues. Yes, this whole upvalue + dynamic values thing is a little bit mind-bending, but we would like to not give up being able to resolve a large chunk of the scoping behaviour statically. Change-Id: Ia58cdd47d79212390a6503ef13cef46b6b3e19a2 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6321 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
2022-09-06 r/4656 feat(tvix/eval): allow ignoring locals by prefixing with _Vincent Ambo1-1/+2
This is a common idiom in