LightSpan::Delayed was introduced in commit
bf286a54bc which claimed that "This
reduces the eval time for `builtins.length (builtins.attrNames
(import <nixpkgs> {}))` by *one third*!"
I am unable to reproduce this result. In fact, dropping the
LightSpan::Delayed variant of the enum makes eval of the same
expression slightly faster! I also tried a large evaluation
(pkgsCross...hello) and got similar results: slightly faster,
slightly less memory. See git footers.
I suspect that there was some unrelated horrific inefficiency that
has since been fixed. The avoided computation in `get_span()` is
nothing more than a binary search! If this were in fact a major
performance issue we could simply precompute the mapping from
CodeIdx to Span when the Chunk becomes immutable (i.e. at the end of
the compilation process, when compiler backtracking is no longer a
concern). Since a Span is just 64 bits this is not a space issue,
and since binary search is much simpler than compiling Nix
expressions it isn't a performance issue either.
Technically there is no longer any reason to have LightSpan since it
is now a single-variant enum. However there is no rush to remove
it, since Rust will optimize its representation into the same thing
you'd get if you replaced LightSpan by Span.
Prev-Benchmark: {"nixpkgs-attrnames":{"kbytes":"233824","system":"0.32","user":"2.02"}}
This-Benchmark: {"nixpkgs-attrnames":{"kbytes":"230192","system":"0.29","user":"2.00"}}
Prev-Benchmark: {"pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.hello.outPath":{"kbytes":"458936","system":"0.73","user":"5.36"}}
This-Benchmark: {"pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.hello.outPath":{"kbytes":"451808","system":"0.53","user":"5.10"}}
Change-Id: Ib9e04806850aa1fc4e66e2a042703986440a7b4e
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/10254
Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su>
Autosubmit: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
This simplifies some code down the line.
Change-Id: I58dd71e796e11479f44516cf24932f8061843d23
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/8139
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: raitobezarius <tvl@lahfa.xyz>
This type carries the information required for calculating a
span (i.e. the chunk and offset), instead of the span itself. The span
is then only calculated in cases where it is required (when throwing
errors).
This reduces the eval time for
`builtins.length (builtins.attrNames (import <nixpkgs> {}))` by *one
third*!
The data structure in chunks that carries span information reduces
in-memory size by trading off the speed of retrieving span
information. This is because the span information is only actually
required when throwing errors (or emitting warnings).
However, somewhere along the way we grew a dependency on carrying span
information in thunks (for correctly reporting error chains). Hitting
the code paths for span retrieval was expensive, and carrying the
spans in a different way would still be less cache-efficient. This
change is the best tradeoff I could come up with.
Refs: b/229.
Change-Id: I27d4c4b5c5f9be90ac47f2db61941e123a78a77b
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7558
Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
This logic was duplicated between the two rnix types before, but more
crucially - it is also needed for correctly displaying the text ranges
contained in syntax errors.
Change-Id: Ifc6a521de1594d6ced9cba6274f1931df99b6634
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6870
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
This is also useful for error-handling related logic, outside of just
the compiler module.
Change-Id: I5c386e2b4c31cda0a0209b31136ca07f00e39e45
Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6869
Tested-by: BuildkiteCI
Reviewed-by: grfn <grfn@gws.fyi>
2022-10-08 10:58:42 +00:00
Renamed from tvix/eval/src/compiler/spans.rs (Browse further)
