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Vincent Ambo 6b3c3c9826 refactor(tvix/eval): add macros for generating Value casters The casting methods of `Value` are pretty verbose, and actually incorrect before this commit as they did not account for inner thunk values. To address this, we first attempt to make them correct by introducing a standard macro to generate them and traverse the inner thunk(s) if necessary. This is likely to be a performance hit as it will now involve more cloning of values. We can do multiple things to alleviate this, but should do some measurements first. Change-Id: If315d6e2afe7b69db727df535bc6cbfb89a691aa Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6412 Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI		2022-09-08 08:45:15 +00:00
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benches	test(tvix/eval): Add attr merge benchmarks	2022-09-03 06:56:02 +00:00
docs	docs(tvix/eval): start a document on known optimisation potential	2022-09-06 07:29:25 +00:00
src	refactor(tvix/eval): add macros for generating Value casters	2022-09-08 08:45:15 +00:00
.gitignore	feat(tvix/eval): check in generated project skeleton	2022-08-12 12:34:29 +00:00
.skip-subtree	feat(tvix/tests): check in Nix' language test suite	2022-08-24 21:25:41 +00:00
Cargo.lock	chore(tvix/eval): bump all dependencies	2022-09-07 19:08:56 +00:00
Cargo.toml	chore(tvix/eval): bump all dependencies	2022-09-07 19:08:56 +00:00
default.nix	fix(tvix/eval): don't rebuild drv upon changes in cargo target dir	2022-09-04 21:02:50 +00:00
README.md	docs(tvix/eval): add a note on how to run Nix tests	2022-09-03 00:47:58 +00:00

README.md

Tvix Evaluator

This project implements an interpreter for the Nix programming language.

The interpreter aims to be compatible with nixpkgs, on the foundation of Nix 2.3.

Work on this project is extremely in-progress, and the state of the project in the public repository may not necessarily reflect the state of the private codebase, as we are slowly working on publishing it.

We expect this to have caught up in a handful of weeks (as of 2022-08-12).

Please contact TVL with any questions you might have.

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.