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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 Tested-by: BuildkiteCI Reviewed-by: flokli <flokli@flokli.de> |
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Tvix Evaluator
This project implements an interpreter for the Nix programming language. You can experiment with an online version of the evaluator: tvixbolt.
The interpreter aims to be compatible with nixpkgs, on the
foundation of Nix 2.3.
Important note: The evaluator is not yet feature-complete, and while the core mechanisms (compiler, runtime, ...) have stabilised somewhat, a lot of components are still changing rapidly.
Please contact TVL with any questions you might have.
Building tvix-eval
Please check the README.md one level up for instructions on how to build this.
The evaluator itself can also be built with standard Rust tooling (i.e. cargo build).
If you would like to clone only the evaluator and build it directly with Rust tooling, you can do:
git clone https://code.tvl.fyi/depot.git:/tvix/eval.git tvix-eval
cd tvix-eval && cargo build
Nix test suite
C++ Nix implements a language test suite in the form of Nix source code files, and their expected output. The coverage of this test suite is not complete, but we intend to be compatible with it.
We have ported the test suite to Tvix, but do not run it by default as we are not yet compatible with it.
You can run the test suite by enabling the nix_tests feature in
Cargo:
cargo test --features nix_tests
rnix-parser
Tvix is written in memory of jD91mZM2, the author of rnix-parser who sadly passed away.
Tvix makes heavy use of rnix-parser in its bytecode compiler. The parser is now maintained by Nix community members.