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Vincent Ambo afcfa78364 feat(tvix/eval): semi-strictly evaluate output values of the VM This essentially makes the VM behave like `nix-instantiate --eval --strict`, i.e. data structures are traversed strictly and thunks are forced. Thunks embedded in closures are not forced. This allows us to re-enable tests that were disabled because they needed to output nested thunk contents, but is overall a behaviour that must be configurable later on, as it is not cmopatible with e.g. an evaluation of nixpkgs. Change-Id: I5303a5c8e4322feab1384fdb7712fecb950afca5 Reviewed-on: https://cl.tvl.fyi/c/depot/+/6372 Reviewed-by: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org> Tested-by: BuildkiteCI		2022-09-07 19:08:56 +00:00
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docs	docs(tvix/eval): start a document on known optimisation potential	2022-09-06 07:29:25 +00:00
src	feat(tvix/eval): semi-strictly evaluate output values of the VM	2022-09-07 19:08:56 +00:00
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Cargo.toml	chore(tvix/eval): add release-with-debug cargo profile	2022-09-07 15:25:59 +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.