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eldritch horrors e6cd67591b libexpr: rewrite the parser with pegtl instead of flex/bison
this gives about 20% performance improvements on pure parsing. obviously
it will be less on full eval, but depending on how much parsing is to be
done (e.g. including hackage-packages.nix or not) it's more like 4%-10%.

this has been tested (with thousands of core hours of fuzzing) to ensure
that the ASTs produced by the new parser are exactly the same as the old
one would have produced. error messages will change (sometimes by a lot)
and are not yet perfect, but we would rather leave this as is for later.

test results for running only the parser (excluding the variable binding
code) in a tight loop with inputs and parameters as given are promising:

  - 40% faster on lix's package.nix at 10000 iterations
  - 1.3% faster on nixpkgs all-packages.nix at 1000 iterations
  - equivalent on all of nixpkgs concatenated at 100 iterations
    (excluding invalid files, each file surrounded with parens)

more realistic benchmarks are somewhere in between the extremes, parsing
once again getting the largest uplift. other realistic workloads improve
by a few percentage points as well, notably system builds are 4% faster.

Benchmarks summary (from ./bench/summarize.jq bench/bench-*.json)
old/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval -f bench/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
  mean:     0.408s ± 0.025s
            user: 0.355s | system: 0.033s
  median:   0.389s
  range:    0.388s ... 0.442s
  relative: 1

new/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval -f bench/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
  mean:     0.332s ± 0.024s
            user: 0.279s | system: 0.033s
  median:   0.314s
  range:    0.313s ... 0.361s
  relative: 0.814

---

old/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  mean:     6.133s ± 0.022s
            user: 5.395s | system: 0.437s
  median:   6.128s
  range:    6.099s ... 6.183s
  relative: 1

new/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  mean:     5.925s ± 0.025s
            user: 5.176s | system: 0.456s
  median:   5.934s
  range:    5.861s ... 5.943s
  relative: 0.966

---

GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g old/bin/nix eval --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  mean:     4.503s ± 0.027s
            user: 3.731s | system: 0.547s
  median:   4.499s
  range:    4.478s ... 4.541s
  relative: 1

GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=10g new/bin/nix eval --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  mean:     4.285s ± 0.031s
            user: 3.504s | system: 0.571s
  median:   4.281s
  range:    4.221s ... 4.328s
  relative: 0.951

---

old/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' search --no-eval-cache github:nixos/nixpkgs/e1fa12d4f6c6fe19ccb59cac54b5b3f25e160870 hello
  mean:     16.475s ± 0.07s
            user: 14.088s | system: 1.572s
  median:   16.495s
  range:    16.351s ... 16.536s
  relative: 1

new/bin/nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' search --no-eval-cache github:nixos/nixpkgs/e1fa12d4f6c6fe19ccb59cac54b5b3f25e160870 hello
  mean:     15.973s ± 0.013s
            user: 13.558s | system: 1.615s
  median:   15.973s
  range:    15.946s ... 15.99s
  relative: 0.97

---

Change-Id: Ie66ec2d045dec964632c6541e25f8f0797319ee2
2024-06-25 12:24:58 +00:00
jade c97e17144e packaging: rename nixexpr -> lixexpr and so on
This breaks downstreams linking to us on purpose to make sure that if
someone is linking to Lix they're doing it on purpose and crucially not
mixing up Nix and Lix versions in compatibility code.

We still need to fix the internal includes to follow the same schema so
we can drop the single-level include system entirely. However, this
requires a little more effort.

This adds pkg-config for libfetchers and config.h.

Migration path:
expr.hh      -> lix/libexpr/expr.hh
nix/config.h -> lix/config.h

To apply this migration automatically, remove all `<nix/>` from
includes, so: `#include <nix/expr.hh>` -> `#include <expr.hh>`. Then,
the correct paths will be resolved from the tangled mess, and the
clang-tidy automated fix will work.

Then run the following for out of tree projects:

```
lix_root=$HOME/lix
(cd $lix_root/clang-tidy && nix develop -c 'meson setup build && ninja -C build')
run-clang-tidy -checks='-*,lix-fixincludes' -load=$lix_root/clang-tidy/build/liblix-clang-tidy.so -p build/ -fix src
```

Related: lix-project/nix-eval-jobs#5
Fixes: lix-project/lix#279
Change-Id: I7498e903afa6850a731ef8ce77a70da6b2b46966
2024-05-23 16:45:23 -06:00
Rebecca Turner 2a98ba8b97 Add pre-commit checks
The big ones here are `trim-trailing-whitespace` and `end-of-file-fixer`
(which makes sure that every file ends with exactly one newline
character).

Change-Id: Idca73b640883188f068f9903e013cf0d82aa1123
2024-03-29 22:57:40 -07:00
Qyriad 038daad218 meson: implement functional tests
Functional tests can be run with
`meson test -C build --suite installcheck`.

Notably, functional tests must be run *after* running `meson install`
(Lix's derivation runs the installcheck suite in installCheckPhase so it
does this correctly), due to some quirks between Meson and the testing
system.

As far as I can tell the functional tests are meant to be run after
installing anyway, but unfortunately I can't transparently make
`meson test --suite installcheck` depend on the install targets.

The script that runs the functional tests, meson/run-test.py, checks
that `meson install` has happened and fails fast with a (hopefully)
helpful error message if any of the functional tests are run before
installing.

TODO: this change needs reflection in developer documentation

Change-Id: I8dcb5fdfc0b6cb17580973d24ad930abd57018f6
2024-03-27 18:37:50 -06:00
Qyriad b4d07656ff build: optionally build and install with meson
This commit adds several meson.build, which successfully build and
install Lix executables, libraries, and headers. Meson does not yet
build docs, Perl bindings, or run tests, which will be added in
following commits. As such, this commit does not remove the existing
build system, or make it the default, and also as such, this commit has
several FIXMEs and TODOs as notes for what should be done before the
existing autoconf + make buildsystem can be removed and Meson made the
default. This commit does not modify any source files.

A Meson-enabled build is also added as a Hydra job, and to
`nix flake check`.

Change-Id: I667c8685b13b7bab91e281053f807a11616ae3d4
2024-03-22 08:36:50 -06:00