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sterni
3b33c19a9c fix(tvix): don't call function eagerly in genList, map & mapAttrs
mapAttrs, map and genList call Nix functions provided by the caller and
store the result of applying them in a Nix data structure that does not
force all of its contents when forced itself. This means that when such
a builtin application is forced, the Nix function calls performed by the
builtin should not be forced: They may be forced later, but it is also
possible that they will never be forced, e.g. in

    builtins.length (builtins.map (builtins.add 2) [ 1 2 3 ])

it is not necessary to compute a single application of builtins.add.

Since request_call_with immediately performs the function call
requested, Tvix would compute function applications unnecessarily before
this change. Because this was not followed by a request_force, the
impact of this was relatively low in Nix code (most functions return a
new thunk after being applied), but it was enough to cause a lot of
bogus builtins.trace applications when evaluating anything from
`lib.modules`. The newly added test includes many cases where Tvix
previously incorrectly applied a builtin, breaking a working expression.

To fix this we add a new helper to construct a Thunk performing a
function application at runtime from a function and argument given as
`Value`s. This mimics the compiler's compile_apply(), but does itself
not require a compiler, since the necessary Lambda can be constructed
independently.

I also looked into other builtins that call a Nix function to verify
that they don't exhibit such a problem:

- Many builtins immediately use the resulting value in a way that makes
  it necessary to compute all the function calls they do as soon as
  the outer builtin application is forced:

  * all
  * any
  * filter
  * groupBy
  * partition

- concatMap needs to (shallowly) force the returned list for
  concatenation.

- foldl' is strict in the application of `op` (I added a comment that
  makes this explicit).

- genericClosure needs to (shallowly) force the resulting list and some
  keys of the attribute sets inside.

Resolves b/272.

Change-Id: I1fa53f744bcffc035da84c1f97ed25d146830446
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8651
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-05-26 22:35:39 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
a5f28eea94 fix(tvix/eval): print unevaluated thunks like Nix does
Change-Id: Ie4c563e933f571f45cb4f4efe650d1b65f119e8d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8324
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-03-22 13:44:19 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
8c13f18d11 feat(tvix/eval): report all known spans on infinite recursion
This reports the span

1. of the code within a thunk,
2. of the place where the thunk was instantiated,
3. of the place where the thunk was first forced,
4. of the place where the thunk was forced again,

when yielding an infinite recursion error, which hopefully makes it
easier to debug them.

The spans are tracked in the ThunkRepr::Blackhole variant when putting
a thunk under evaluation.

Note that we currently have some loss of span precision in the VM loop
when switching between frame types, so spans 3/4 are currently a bit
wonky. Working on it.

Change-Id: Icbd2a9df903d00e8c2545b3fc46dcd2a9e3e3e55
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8270
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-03-17 19:32:38 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
3fa6b13c1e feat(tvix/eval): track span of first force in a thunk blackhole
This is step 1 towards being able to use all 4 spans that we know when
dealing with infinite recursion. It tracks the span at which the
force of a thunk was first requested when constructing a blackhole, so
that we can highlight the spans of the first and second forces.

These are actually the least relevant spans, but the easiest to put in
place, more coming soon.

Change-Id: I4c7e82f6211b98756439d4148a4191457cc46807
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8269
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-03-17 19:31:37 +00:00
Adam Joseph
1e80b9ea8b chore(tvix/eval): mark async functions which are called by the VM
Given Rust's current lack of support for tail calls, we cannot avoid
using `async` for builtins.  This is the only way to avoid
overflowing the cpu stack when we have arbitrarily deep
builtin/interpreted/builtin/interpreted/... "sandwiches"

There are only five `async fn` functions which are not builtins
(some come in multiple "flavors"):

- add_values
- resolve_with
- force, final_deep_force
- nix_eq, nix_cmp_eq
- coerce_to_string

These can be written iteratively rather than recursively (and in
fact nix_eq used to be written that way!).  I volunteer to rewrite
them.  If written iteratively they would no longer need to be
`async`.

There are two motivations for limiting our reliance on `async` to
only the situation (builtins) where we have no other choice:

1. Performance.

   We don't really have any good measurement of the performance hit
   that the Box<dyn Future>s impose on us.  Right now all of our
   large (nixpkgs-eval) tests are swamped by the cost of other
   things (e.g. fork()ing `nix-store`) so we can't really measure
   it.  Builtins tend to be expensive operations anyways
   (regexp-matching, sorting, etc) that are likely to already cost
   more than the `async` overhead.

2. Preserving the ability to switch to `musttail` calls.

   Clang/LLVM recently got `musttail` (mandatory-elimination tail
   calls).  Rust has refused to add this mainly because WASM doesn't
   support, but WASM `tail_call` has been implemented and was
   recently moved to phase 4 (standardization).  It is very likely
   that Rust will get tail calls sometime in the next year; if it
   does, we won't need async anymore.  In the meantime, I'd like to
   avoid adding any further reliance on `async` in places where it
   wouldn't be straightforward to replace it with a tail call.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D99517

https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/pull/157

https: //github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2691#issuecomment-1462152908
Change-Id: Id15945d5a92bf52c16d93456e3437f91d93bdc57
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8290
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
2023-03-13 21:33:58 +00:00
Adam Joseph
47895c4c30 feat(tvix/eval): rewrite nix_cmp_ordering to be nonrecursive
This rewrites nix_cmp_ordering as an iterative loop, which
eliminates the extra pinned-boxing helper function.

Change-Id: I33d0ecc913e02affd8fd4c7bc1c9ecfdf4c7deb9
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8288
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
2023-03-13 21:22:12 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
939cebd0f1 fix(tvix/eval): implement cppnix JSON-serialisation semantics
This drops the usage of serde::Serialize, as the trait can not be used
to implement the correct semantics (function colouring!).

Instead, a manual JSON serialisation function is written which
correctly handles toString, outPath and other similar weirdnesses.

Unexpectedly, the eval-okay-tojson test from the C++ Nix test suite
now passes, too.

This fixes an issue where serialising data structures containing
derivations to JSON would fail.

Change-Id: I5c39e3d8356ee93a07eda481410f88610f6dd9f8
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8209
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
1e37f8b52e feat(tvix/eval): give generators human-readable names
This adds static strings to generator frames that describe the
generator in a human-readable fashion, which are then logged in
observers.

This makes runtime traces very precise, explaining exactly what is
being requested from where.

Change-Id: I695659a6bd0b7b0bdee75bc8049651f62b150e0c
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8206
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
a9f44721e5 refactor(tvix/eval): move __toString calling to a helper function
It turns out that this is used not just in coerceToString, but also in
toJSON.

Change-Id: I1c324b115a0b8bb6d83446d5bf70453c9b90685e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8203
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
43d04d9b98 refactor(tvix/eval): box PathBuf
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
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
52b7a76268 chore(tvix/eval): remove From<SmolStr> for NixString instance
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
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
1941082cbb refactor(tvix/eval): simplify NixString representation(s)
Instead of the two different representations (which we don't really
use much), use a `Box<str>` (which potentially shaves another 8 bytes
off `Value`).

NixString values themselves are immutable anyways (which was a
guarantee we already had with `SmolStr`), so this doesn't change
anything else.

Change-Id: I1d8454c056c21ecb0aebc473cfb3ae06cd70dbb6
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8151
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
4bbfeaf1cb refactor(tvix/eval): wrap NixList in Rc
The size of a `Vector<Value>` is 64 *bytes*, which is quite large, and
it bloated the entire Value type to this size.

This change adds an indirection for the inner vector through Rc.
Initially I tried to use a Box, but this breaks pointer equality
guarantees for the Vector when it is small enough to be inlined.

This reduces the size of Value from 64 to 32 bytes.

Change-Id: Ic3211e861b1966c78b2c3d536ba291fea92647fd
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8150
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
025c67bf4d refactor(tvix/eval): flatten call stack of VM using generators
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
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
cbb4137dc0 feat(tvix/eval): implement generator-based Nix equality logic
Adds a `Value::neo_nix_eq` method (the `neo_` prefix will be dropped
when we flip over to the generator implementation of the VM) which
implements Nix equality semantics using async, generator-based
comparisons.

Instead of tracking the "kind" of equality that is being compared (see
the pointer-equality doc) through a pair of booleans, I've introduced
an enum that explicitly lists the possible comparisons.

Change-Id: I3354cc1470eeccb3000a5ae24f2418db1a7a2edc
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8241
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
d00229753d feat(tvix/eval): implement asynchronous list sorting algorithm
In order to implement an asynchronous builtins.sort (required for
moving builtins to generators), we need an `async` sorting algorithm
as our comparators involve invoking a Nix function.

This commit implements a fairly simple, optimised bubble sort as the
sorting algorithm used in our `async fn sort_by`.

There don't seem to be any crates providing async versions of things
like this, and they might actually be pretty hard to implement
generically due to some constraints about how `async` works.

Note that this algorithm is less efficient than the hybrid
"timsort/mergesort/insert sort" used in the Rust standard library. I
tried to write a merge sort implementation, but ran into isuses with
the sort becoming unstable because our comparators can not yield
equality. This is the simplest implementation which I know to be
correct.

Note that as of this commit this is *not* covered by the Tvix test
suite, but it will be as soon as the rest of the generator code lands.

Change-Id: Ia9a604f7dd941d6acc9212c902e0e637ed75bebc
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8239
Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-13 20:30:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
2696839770 feat(tvix/eval): introduce generators module
This module contains the request/response types for generators
requesting actions from the VM.

For most of these, an async helper function is added that will be used
inside of generator functions to make use of these requests/responses
instead of constructing them directly.

Change-Id: I1e085f88adaf784a34867957a0e82532d3a83d7c
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8148
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
2023-03-07 22:04:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
bfb787a6c5 refactor(tvix/eval): remove VM argument from suspended native thunks
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>
2023-03-04 15:53:36 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
e1f082a3ab feat(tvix/eval): add SharedThunkSet
This is a ThunkSet wrapped to be shareable, which will be required
once ThunkSets are embedded in futures.

Change-Id: I5a067b7972ac86e4d354c75ef05c86b2284c1137
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8144
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
2023-03-04 15:18:37 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
dccbda5960 fix(tvix/eval): ThunkSet does not need mutable pointers
Change-Id: Iea248870a0ea5d38cb02ff059c968fbd563570b6
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8143
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-04 15:18:37 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
8c7d5b4f87 chore(tvix/eval): implement From<OrdMap<..>> for NixAttrs
Again simplifying some code down the line, where bits of code that
construct attribute sets already have the final structure available.

Change-Id: I0bb7a1daa63298122b51be73d35d695a4f73f8b0
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8140
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-04 15:18:37 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
344c119370 chore(tvix/eval): fix clippy warnings
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>
2023-03-03 11:01:52 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
7e9a65dcdb refactor(tvix/eval): remove useless map call
Change-Id: Ifb59ef148ea4fab613f2e4efb133c04baafa3a98
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8141
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-03-03 10:57:50 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
fb4c197b39 refactor(tvix/eval): enhance debug output for bytecode dumps
This adds addresses of thunk and closure chunks to the debug output
displayed when dumping bytecode.

This makes it possible to see in the dump which thunks are referenced
by constants in other thunks.

Change-Id: I2c98de5227e7cb415666cd3134c947a56979dc80
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8137
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-03-03 10:52:48 +00:00
Aaqa Ishtyaq
faffb2a4cb refactor(tvix/eval): remove redundant clone
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
2023-02-16 22:42:14 +00:00
Aaqa Ishtyaq
105069302b chore(tvix/eval): clippy warn is length zero
This CL address clippy warning about finding the zero
length of something using `is_empty()` instead of `len() == 0`.

Change-Id: I2b36c7c7b65b733609fc0dcd33be06f9d772bc9b
Signed-off-by: Aaqa Ishtyaq <aaqaishtyaq@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8029
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-02-13 19:45:58 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
f16b0f24e2 refactor(tvix/eval): wrap Builtin type in a Box
This reduces the size of `Builtin` from 88 (!) bytes to 8, and as the
largest variant of `Value`, the size of that type from 96 to 64.

The next largest type is NixList, clocking in at 64 bytes.

This has noticeable performance impact. In an implementation without
disk I/O, evaluating nixpkgs.stdenv looks like this:

Benchmark 1: tvix -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).stdenv.drvPath'
  Time (mean ± σ):      1.151 s ±  0.003 s    [User: 1.041 s, System: 0.109 s]
  Range (min … max):    1.147 s …  1.155 s    10 runs

After this change, it looks like this:

Benchmark 1: tvix -E '(import <nixpkgs> {}).stdenv.drvPath'
  Time (mean ± σ):      1.046 s ±  0.004 s    [User: 0.954 s, System: 0.092 s]
  Range (min … max):    1.041 s …  1.053 s    10 runs

Change-Id: I5ab7cc02a9a450c0227daf1f1f72966358311ebb
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8027
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-02-03 18:47:33 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
3419f63575 fix(tvix/eval): ensure all evaluated thunks are correctly memoized
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
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2023-02-03 10:47:18 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
98ea614c6e chore(tvix/eval): elaborate on internal types in Value::type_of
This aids in debugging quite substantially.

Change-Id: Ic43232aa6165ae1c3db7ac2701938e1dfeeb418c
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8013
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-02-02 09:29:43 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
1028aff105 chore(tvix/eval): remove dead comment
Change-Id: Icedb7f272e5067569b8dbf1c2d8b0fdd352b8e12
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7936
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-01-26 23:30:43 +00:00
Florian Klink
669496f0ba test(tvix/eval): add test for total_fmt_float
Change-Id: If6c478ee3d2e4ecf5ef92289614f86535ad05cb7
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7927
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-01-25 11:24:20 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
164005656d refactor(tvix/eval): extract float formatting into a helper
This keeps the actual TotalDisplay implementation readable, as this
float formatting code suddenly made up the majority of its implementation.

Change-Id: I2c0d00e4a691e0b8ffbc72680f680e16feef4bee
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7925
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-01-25 11:24:19 +00:00
Florian Klink
1facd889bb feat(tvix/eval): use lexical-core to format float
Apparently our naive implementation of float formatting, which simply
used {:.5}, and trimmed trailing "0" strings not sufficient.

It wrongly trimmed numbers with zeroes but no decimal point, like
`10000` got trimmed to `1`.

Nix uses `std::to_string` on the double, which according to
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/to_string
is equivalent to `std::sprintf(buf, "%f", value)`.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf mentions this is treated
like this:

> Precision specifies the exact number of digits to appear after
> the decimal point character. The default precision is 6. In the
> alternative implementation decimal point character is written even if
> no digits follow it. For infinity and not-a-number conversion style
> see notes.

This doesn't seem to be the case though, and Nix uses scientific
notation in some cases.

There's a whole bunch of strategies to determine which is a more compact
notation, and which notation should be used for a given number.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24556 provides some pointers
into various rabbit holes for those interested.

This gist seems to be that currently a different formatting is not
exposed in rust directly, at least not for public consumption.

There is the
[lexical-core](https://github.com/Alexhuszagh/rust-lexical) crate
though, which provides a way to format floats with various strategies
and formats.

Change our implementation of `TotalDisplay` for the `Value::Float` case
to use that. We still need to do some post-processing, because Nix
always adds the sign in scientific notation (and there's no way to
configure lexical-core to do that), and lexical-core in some cases keeps
the trailing zeros.

Even with all that in place, there as a difference in `eval-okay-
fromjson.nix` (from tvix-tests), which I couldn't get to work. I updated
the fixture to a less problematic number.

With this, the testsuite passes again, and does for the upcoming CL
introducing builtins.fromTOML, and enabling the nix testsuite bits for
it, too.

Change-Id: Ie6fba5619e1d9fd7ce669a51594658b029057acc
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7922
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Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-01-25 07:49:44 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
7442558b33 refactor(tvix/eval): keep globals alive through VM struct
This forces users to pass the fully constructed set of globals to the
VM, making it harder to accidentally "lose" the set while weak
references to it still exist.

This doesn't modify any functionality, but is laying the foundation
for simplifying some of the builtins behaviour that has grown more
complex again.

Change-Id: I5120f97861c65dc46d90b8a4e2c92ad32cc53e03
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7877
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-01-20 22:48:13 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
972c867b36 feat(tvix/eval): add error contexts to annotate error kinds
This makes it possible for users to add additional context to an
error, which will then be rendered as an additional secondary span in
the formatted error output.

We should strive to do this basically anywhere errors are raised that
can occur multiple times, *especially* during type casts. This was
triggered by me debugging a type cast error attached to a fairly
large-ish span (a builtin invocation).

Change-Id: I51be41fabee00cf04de973935daf34fe6424e76f
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7849
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-01-20 15:39:51 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
bf6f6a0b3f refactor(tvix/eval): non-hacky suspended native thunks
Instead of having a representation of suspended native thunks that
involves constructing a fake code chunk, make these thunks a
first-class part of the internal thunk representation.

The previous code was not that simple to understand, and actually
contained a critical bug which could lead to Tvix crashes. This
version fixes the particular instance of that bug, but instead
uncovers another (b/238) which can still lead to Tvix crashes.

Fixes: b/237.
Change-Id: I771d03864084d63953bdbb518fec94487481f839
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7750
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-01-17 10:38:06 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
559a09c5e6 refactor(tvix/eval): remove Box in new_suspended_native
This is unnecessary, Rc already provides all the boxing we need.

Change-Id: I08cf0939c48da43f04c847526c7e5dae5336d528
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7749
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
2023-01-17 10:38:06 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
940251b87f refactor(tvix/value): use proptest strategies from imbl crate
Instead of going through Vec/BTreeMap for generating our internal
types, use the proptest strategies from imbl.

The one thing I couldn't figure out in the previous implementation is
where the ranges/sizes of generated collections came from. The
strategies in proptest use different types (Range, with an unknown
default value, and SizeRange with 0..100). I've opted to specify
0..100 directly, but we can probably make it configurable.

Change-Id: I749bc4c703fe424099240cab822b1642e5216361
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7791
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
2023-01-17 10:20:38 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
1786b4c835 chore(tvix/eval): add other required items to public API
External implementors of builtins must be able to force values, which
necessitates publishing a bunch more items from the crate.

Change-Id: I8f6b8ae88156aae417dbe630a698d123d0c1c8d4
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7830
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2023-01-16 13:43:14 +00:00
Aaqa Ishtyaq
158f4d1d69 fix(tvix/eval): len_without_is_empty clippy warn
This CL addresses clippy warning len_without_is_empty
which expects `.is_empty()` method to be present when
implementing `.len()` method for an item.

Change-Id: I8878db630b9ef5853649a906b764a33299bb5dc8
Signed-off-by: Aaqa Ishtyaq <aaqaishtyaq@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7806
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-01-12 18:06:49 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
02d35e4aa6 feat(tvix/eval): implement builtins.toJSON
Implements `Serialize` for `tvix_eval::Value`. Special care is taken
with serialisation of attribute sets, and forcing of thunks.

The tests should cover both cases well.

Change-Id: I9bb135bacf6f87bc6bd0bd88cef0a42308e6c335
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7803
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-01-12 10:42:44 +00:00
Ryan Lahfa
805219a2fa feat(tvix/eval): implement serde::Deserialize for Value
Co-Authored-By: Vincent Ambo <tazjin@tvl.su>

Change-Id: Ib6f7d1f4f4faac36b44f5f75cccc57bf912cf606
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7626
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2023-01-10 09:53:21 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
1d59d3ba8f fix(tvix/eval): fix last uses of Vec<Value> -> NixList in builtins
Change-Id: I0d71b82eb7ddc1e457b0996b0668006f55f56751
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7790
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
2023-01-08 11:11:52 +00:00
sterni
9b8ba915c8 fix(tvix/eval): ' is allowed in nonfirst position in Nix identifiers
With this is_valid_nix_identifier should line up with the upstream lexer
definition:

    ID          [a-zA-Z\_][a-zA-Z0-9\_\'\-]*

While we're working on this, add a simple test checking the various
formatting rules. Interestingly, it would not be suitable as an identity
test, since you have to write

    { "assert" = null; }

in order to avoid an evaluation error, but C++ Nix is happy to print
this as

    { assert = null; }

– maybe should be considered to be a bug.

Change-Id: I0a4e1ccb5033a80f3767fb8d1c4bba08d303c5d8
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7744
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2023-01-04 12:36:28 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
86361f0f4a refactor(tvix/eval): remove extra Rc<..> around Value::Attrs
The `im::OrdMap` is already small and cheap to copy while sharing
memory, so this is not required anymore.

Only the `KV` variant may have slightly larger content, but in
practice this doesn't seem to make a difference when comparing the two
variants and this one is less complicated.

Change-Id: I64a563b209a2444125653777551373cb2989ca7d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7677
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2022-12-29 17:44:56 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
91465dc78e refactor(tvix/eval): persistent, memory-sharing OrdMap for NixAttrs
This uses the `im::OrdMap` for `NixAttrs` to enable sharing of memory
between different iterations of a map.

This slightly speeds up eval, but not significantly. Future work might
include benchmarking whether using a `HashMap` and only ordering in
cases where order is actually required would help.

This switches to a fork of `im` that fixes some bugs with its OrdMap
implementation.

Change-Id: I2f6a5ff471b6d508c1e8a98b13f889f49c0d9537
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7676
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2022-12-29 17:44:56 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
610c44ec1e refactor(tvix/eval): use im::Vector directly where possible
The conversion from im::Vector -> Vec is cheaper for NixList
construction (of course), so where possible we should make use of
that.

This updates most builtins dealing with lists to use Vector directly,
and marks the function constructing NixList from Vec as deprecated so
that we get appropriate warnings in places where it's still in use.

These places are currently inside of JSON serialisation logic which is
in flux right now, so lets leave them as-is until it's stabilised.

Change-Id: I037f12a2800f2576db4d9526bd935efd079163f0
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7671
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2022-12-29 16:33:14 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
5d73c06b1a refactor(tvix/eval): use im::Vector for NixList representation
This is a persistent, structurally sharing data structure which is
more efficient in some of our use-cases. I have verified the
efficiency improvement using `hyperfine` repeatedly over expressions
on nixpkgs.

Lists are not the most performance-critical structure in Nix (that
would be attribute sets), but we can already see a small (~5-10%)
improvement.

Note that there are a handful of cases where we still go via `Vec`
that need to be fixed, most notable for `builtins.sort` which can not
currently be implemented directly using `im::Vector` because of a
restrictive type bound.

Change-Id: I237cc50cbd7629a046e5a5e4601fbb40355e551d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7670
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
2022-12-29 12:27:59 +00:00
Vincent Ambo
71174f6626 fix(tvix/eval): fix current clippy warnings
It's been a while since the last time, so quite a lot of stuff has
accumulated here.

Change-Id: I0762827c197b30a917ff470fd8ae8f220f6ba247
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7597
Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
2022-12-25 18:25:06 +00:00
Adam Joseph
67d508f2ec refactor(tvix/eval): non-recursive thunk forcing
Introduces continuation-passing-based trampolining of thunk forcing to
avoid recursing when forcing deeply nested expressions.

This is required for evaluating large expressions.

This change was extracted out of cl/7362.

Co-authored-by: Vincent Ambo <tazjin@tvl.su>
Co-authored-by: Griffin Smith <grfn@gws.fyi>
Change-Id: Ifc1747e712663684b2fff53095de62b8459a47f3
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7551
Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
2022-12-25 18:17:46 +00:00