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This commit deduplicates the Thunk-like functionality from Closure and unifies it with Thunk. Specifically, we now have one and only one way of breaking reference cycles in the Value-graph: Thunk. No other variant contains a RefCell. This should make it easier to reason about the behavior of the VM. InnerClosure and UpvaluesCarrier are no longer necessary. This refactoring allowed an improvement in code generation: `Rc<RefCell<>>`s are now created only for closures which do not have self-references or deferred upvalues, instead of for all closures. OpClosure has been split into two separate opcodes: - OpClosure creates non-recursive closures with no deferred upvalues. The VM will not create an `Rc<RefCell<>>` when executing this instruction. - OpThunkClosure is used for closures with self-references or deferred upvalues. The VM will create a Thunk when executing this opcode, but the Thunk will start out already in the `ThunkRepr::Evaluated` state, rather than in the `ThunkRepr::Suspeneded` state. To avoid confusion, OpThunk has been renamed OpThunkSuspended. Thanks to @sterni for suggesting that all this could be done without adding an additional variant to ThunkRepr. This does however mean that there will be mutating accesses to `ThunkRepr::Evaluated`, which was not previously the case. The field `is_finalised:bool` has been added to `Closure` to ensure that these mutating accesses are performed only on finalised Closures. Both the check and the field are present only if `#[cfg(debug_assertions)]`. Change-Id: I04131501029772f30e28da8281d864427685097f Signed-off-by: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com> Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/7019 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: tazjin <tazjin@tvl.su> |
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Tvix
For more information about Tvix, contact one of the project owners. We are interested in people who would like to help us review designs, brainstorm and describe requirements that we may not yet have considered.
License structure
All code implemented for Tvix is licensed under the GPL-3.0, with the exception of the protocol buffer definitions used for communication between services which are available under a more permissive license (MIT).
The idea behind this structure is that any direct usage of our code (e.g. linking to it, embedding the evaluator, etc.) will fall under the terms of the GPL3, but users are free to implement their own components speaking these protocols under the terms of the MIT license.