nix_oracle.rs now gives us the possibility to check this by stuffing the
expressions in a list. In fact, the incorrect behavior fixed in
- cl/8656
- cl/8655
- cl/8662
was discovered using this test suite.
Change-Id: Id0ab01ee6be0b875791214e0a72a2ac941c46c96
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8658
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This will be useful for comparing thunking behavior to C++ Nix. I
considered adding this capability to the tvix_tests/nix_tests
infrastructure, but as it would require changing the test file naming
scheme to do it in a clean way, I've postponed it–it's nice that our
tests are compatible with C++ Nix's test suite.
Change-Id: I60bcdd98ed25140e716f0858f8dc28f21ab957aa
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8657
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8656
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Probably no real world code broken by this overzealous evaluation, but
let's be thorough!
Change-Id: Ib405a677182eab7940ace940c68e107573473a54
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8655
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8654
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Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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>
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.
Change-Id: Ie44521445fce1199f99b5b17712833faea9bc357
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7959
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
This method extends the contents of one chunk with that of another,
effectively merging the thunks together.
This will be used for the upcoming "unthunking" functionality.
Change-Id: I6ad74232cd7f3eca198ed921e455205e00d76e6b
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7958
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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These two places didn't add the path from the context to the
ErrorKind, but simply relied on the
impl From<std::io::Error> for tvix_eval::ErrorKind, which doesn't add
the path.
Change-Id: Ifc7dbbe305d24242b0705de1dea34e8923e9d2cb
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8603
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
We didn't return anything useful other than ErrorKind::IO anyways.
We can use io::ErrorKind::Unsupported for DummyIO.
Fixes b/271.
Change-Id: Icb231e9b38168e8b6fa473bfa405d160357b317f
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8602
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
It's okay if these calls mutate some internal state inside an
implementation.
Change-Id: I12bb11bde0310778c3da1275696bf7de058863a3
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8571
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This switches out the previous compressed representation (count of
instructions per span) with a representation where the chunk's span
list stores the index of the first operation that belongs to a span,
and finds the right span by using a binary search when looking them
up.
This improves the lookup complexity from O(n) to O(log n).
This improvement was suggested and (mostly) implemented by GPT-4. I
only fixed up some names and updated the logic for deleting
spans (which it only did not do because I didn't tell it about that).
The code was verified by producing a complex error before/after the
change and ensuring that all spans in the error match exactly.
Co-Authored-By: GPT-4
Change-Id: Ibfa12cc6973af1c9b0ae55bb464d1975209771f5
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8385
Reviewed-by: ezemtsov <eugene.zemtsov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This grows the frame stack as the call stack grows, which yields *much*
better user-facing error messages.
I haven't measured the performance impact this has yet, for now I'm
still just trying to add more information to errors and then cut down
again where necessary.
Change-Id: I89f058ef31979edacf4667775d460b60704ce4d7
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8334
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This makes it possible for callers to control whether they can receive
partially evaluated values from an evaluation or not.
We're actually flipping the default behaviour to non-strict top-level
evaluation, which means that callers have to set `strict = true` on
the Evaluation to get the previous behaviour.
Change-Id: Ic048e9ba09c88866d4c3177d5fa07db11c4eb20e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8325
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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>
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>
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
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
This actually uses coercion under the hood in C++ Nix. See the test
for an example.
Change-Id: Id56b364acf269225b6829d0b600e0222f8b3608d
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8322
Reviewed-by: andi <andi@notmuch.email>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
This was commented out and forgotten during the generator refactor, oh
well.
Change-Id: I474b685159a955a846db462da0dd0067af177b04
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8321
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Change-Id: I8224bf039f739c401900b5a2ddc839810c87cf6e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8226
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Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
We settled on this being the most reasonable name for this construct.
Change-Id: Ic31c45461a842f22aa05f4446123fe3a61dfdbc0
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8291
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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/D99517https://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>
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Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
This commit moves fetch_forced_with and fetch_captured_with into the
scope of their only caller (resolve_with).
Change-Id: I9a8bc27228888729d591e8cb021c431b2b6468f5
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8289
Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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>
* We no longer need backtrace-on-stack-overflow, as we no longer
overflow the stack with the recent eval refactorings. This was weird
voodoo anyways, introduced earlier to debug some cases where stack
overflows occured.
* default features of genawaiter crate are not needed, as we don't use
their proc macros
Change-Id: I346fc5a18d7f117ee805909a8be8f535b96be76c
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8263
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
This reorders the operations in the VM's main `match` statement while
evaluating bytecode according to the frequency with which these
operations appear in some nixpkgs evaluations.
I used raw data that looks like this:
https://gist.github.com/tazjin/63d0788a78eb8575b04defaad4ef610d
This has a small but noticeable impact on evaluation performance.
No operations have changed in any way, this is purely moving code
around.
Change-Id: Iaa4ef4f0577e98144e8905fec88149c41e8c315c
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8262
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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The name of this was not accurate anymore after all the recent
shuffling, as noted by amjoseph. Conceptual tail calls here only occur
for Nix bytecode calling Nix bytecode, but things like a builtin call
actually push a new native frame.
Change-Id: I1dea8c9663daf86482b8c7b5a23133254b5ca321
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8256
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... except now the tests fail, but at least it works
Change-Id: I05e86c173f40533ae65548585c1ddaa200ac5235
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8214
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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>
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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
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These are serialised as the serialisation of the value of that field.
Change-Id: Ida51708b1f43ce09b0ec835f4e265918aa31dd09
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8205
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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These must be serialised to a JSON string of the *result* of coercing
the function application to a string.
Change-Id: Ib7f49ccd950503ddbdbf99643cd59565e26b50da
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8204
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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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
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Do not print the entire value (they're likely to be thunks anyways).
This is useful because there *can* be cases where something like
`nixpkgs` itself is sent through one of these messages, in which case
the observer trying to print it will just blow up.
Change-Id: I1fa37ea071d75efa0eb3428c6e2fe4351c62be6b
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8202
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Print only the top 6 values of the stack, not the entire stack.
There's very few operations that deal with more values anyways, so the
rest are not likely to be useful.
This gets us one step closer to tracing VERY large executions without
blowing up.
Change-Id: I97472321b0321b25d534d9f53b3aadfacc2318fa
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8201
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
This can actually blow up when tracing arbitrary execution, as some of
the data structures just get too large to run through a tabwriter.
Change-Id: I6ec4c30ee48655b8a62954ca219107404fb2c256
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8200
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8196
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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>
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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
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
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
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
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
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Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
These functions will be used by the changes in the VM to observe the
runtime execution of generator frames, and provide a more linear view
of the execution of the Tvix VM.
Change-Id: I10b1b1933dedc065e7c61d5d6062f0aaeee0097e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8240
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Reviewed-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
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
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
|
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
|
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
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Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
Instead of using a suspended native thunk, calculate and optionally
insert the storeDir builtin when the VM is constructed.
We already have the IO handle available at this point and can just
check whether a storeDir is present, and insert its absolute value as
a builtin.
Change-Id: If966eee6ff26dc888b6e888e7c46170c0c346b05
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8145
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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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
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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
This simplifies some code down the line.
Change-Id: I58dd71e796e11479f44516cf24932f8061843d23
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8139
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Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
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
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
We want the address that the Rc is pointing to, not the address of the
Rc.
Change-Id: I8eba21677f242bbe4166c74d4aa4269c316076e3
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8045
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
This CL address clippy warning which expects to
use `writeln` instead of `write` for strings with
new line.
Change-Id: Ia72a07502c60cfd489ecf1e3833b9d42d44a8b17
Signed-off-by: Aaqa Ishtyaq <aaqaishtyaq@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8030
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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
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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This branch was missing, and an assumption elsewhere just executed the
returned (broken) bytecode.
This fixes b/253.
Change-Id: I015023ba921bc08ea03882167f1f560feca25e50
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8090
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
These should be inspectable by callers.
Change-Id: Ia9ef871aa63958d06066aaea61b2aecbd217369b
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8089
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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
We only use Rc in `impl EvalIO for StdIO`, which is only included when
building with the "impure" feature.
Change-Id: Id29d647c899cbfcdda11abfb9fabd5aa7e24299f
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8025
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
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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... not just a TODO.
Most use-cases of unsafeDiscardStringContext are for cases where a
string is processed in some ways and no longer contains a "physical"
reference, but still has its context attached in C++ Nix.
We don't need to do this. This does diverge in behaviour in use-cases
related to build scheduling, but that whole behaviour will be
different in Tvix.
Change-Id: I4056d4c09f62d44d6bd52b791db03fe5556672b5
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8016
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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... instead of a BTreeMap, as we do not need ordering guarantees here.
HashMaps are noticeably faster here (especially as we've been sorting
essentially random data!).
Change-Id: Ie92d74286df9f763c04c9b226ef1066ee8484c13
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8014
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
This adds a fake argument name to builtins.toXML which allows toXML to
serialise any value instead of panicking on functions. We do still
have to fix the value itself, eventually, though.
Change-Id: I2e330ecddcd80442b4fac5eced64431ac86123ba
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7962
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Formals can depend on each other when using another formal as a
default value.
This test ensures that the compiler's declaration and initialisation
order of formals is consistent with what actually happens in the VM.
Change-Id: Ibdabe262554e8066d67fac1ebc3b5a48ef626e18
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7948
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
While it is in the given example, i.e. for integer addition, to claim
that they are equivalent is a bit misleading: builtins.add is less
overloaded than +, i.e. builtins.add "foo" "bar" will fail whereas
"foo" + "bar" performs string concatenation.
Change-Id: Ib52d530d1ab289b367565b286f06a76dd518d4fb
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7929
Autosubmit: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
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>
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This allows parsing TOML from Tvix. We can enable the eval-okay-fromTOML
testcase from nix_tests. It uses the `toml` crate, and the serde
integration it brings with it.
Change-Id: Ic6f95aacf2aeb890116629b409752deac49dd655
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7920
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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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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Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Two main reasons:
1. Traversing the structure to do this optimisation is
actually *slower* than not optimising it.
2. There are literally hundreds of thousands of incidences of this in
nixpkgs, and with some of the weird code there some of
these (functionally) useless parens are actually required for
readability reasons.
Change-Id: I1044b1c5f9fe20df4b6085851fc3b191277c65dc
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7917
Autosubmit: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
call_value in the VM expects the callable to be forced when calling
it, which was not the case for functors.
Change-Id: Id55a2fe32a9573be42aef8669e268df519a989cd
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7909
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Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
This makes it possible to inject builtins into the builtin set that
are written in Nix code, and which at runtime are represented by a
thunk that will compile them the first time they are used.
Change-Id: Ia632367328f66fb2f26cb64ae464f8f3dc9c6d30
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7891
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Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
While moving the CLI out of the evaluator, we forgot to update the
README in //tvix/eval. Move this up to //tvix, so people know where
to start.
Keep the instructions on how to build only `//tvix/eval` in `//tvix/
eval/README.md`.
Change-Id: Ie2755e8b5a0056225dbf3a0ee040f70f7f6a1f27
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7887
Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
Autosubmit: flokli <flokli@flokli.de>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
