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Eelco Dolstra 85d13c8f93 * Change the semantics of "with" so that inner "withs" take
precedence, i.e. `with {x=1;}; with {x=2;}; x' evaluates to 2'.
  This has a simpler implementation and seems more natural.  There
  doesn't seem to be any code in Nixpkgs or NixOS that relies on the
  old behaviour.
2010-04-14 08:37:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7d47498b5e * Evaluate lets directly (i.e. without desugaring to `rec { attrs...;
<let-body> = e; }.<let-body>).  This prevents the unnecessary
  allocation of an attribute set.
2010-04-13 13:42:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ac1e8f40d4 * Use a symbol table to represent identifiers and attribute names
efficiently.  The symbol table ensures that there is only one copy
  of each symbol, thus allowing symbols to be compared efficiently
  using a pointer equality test.
2010-04-13 12:25:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4d6ad5be17 * Don't use ATerms for the abstract syntax trees anymore. Not
finished yet.
2010-04-12 18:30:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f3dc7ab877 * Keep more statistics about stack space usage.
* Reduce stack space usage.
2010-04-09 12:00:49 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra af2a372bb0 * Update autoCallFunction() and findAlongAttrPath(). 2010-04-07 15:47:06 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra fc92244ba8 * Implemented the primops necessary for generating the NixOS manual. 2010-04-07 13:55:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7b851915bf * Improve sharing. 2010-04-01 12:04:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 71f026292b * Make `derivation' lazy again for performance. It also turns out
that there are some places in Nixpkgs (php_configurable /
  composableDerivation, it seems) that call `derivation' with
  incorrect arguments (namely, the `name' attribute missing) but get
  away with it because of laziness.
2010-04-01 09:55:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 979f163615 * Handle string contexts. `nix-instantiate' can now correctly compute
the `firefoxWrapper' attribute in Nixpkgs, and it's about 3 times
  faster than the trunk :-)
2010-03-31 19:52:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 55e207b2dc * Cache parse trees to prevent repeated parsing of imported Nix
expressions.
2010-03-31 16:14:32 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3d94be61ea * Implemented derivations. 2010-03-31 15:38:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 7f19e03c65 * More primops. 2010-03-30 22:39:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 47df476daa * More operators / primops. 2010-03-30 18:05:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c9170be2bd * More primops. 2010-03-30 15:18:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra c3aa615a5f * More primops. 2010-03-30 14:39:27 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b72d8a749 * Implemented `map'. 2010-03-30 13:47:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d78a05ab40 * Make `import' work. 2010-03-30 09:22:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 31428c3a06 * Started integrating the new evaluator. 2010-03-29 14:37:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 50d11b90ca * Allow unsafe (unspecified) comparisons between attrsets unless
NIX_NO_UNSAFE_EQ is set, for now.
2009-05-12 11:06:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 05879db628 * Memoize strict evaluation. 2007-01-13 15:41:54 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d7efd76394 * Big cleanup of the semantics of paths, strings, contexts, string
concatenation and string coercion.  This was a big mess (see
  e.g. NIX-67).  Contexts are now folded into strings, so that they
  don't cause evaluation errors when they're not expected.  The
  semantics of paths has been clarified (see nixexpr-ast.def).
  toString() and coerceToString() have been merged.

  Semantic change: paths are now copied to the store when they're in a
  concatenation (and in most other situations - that's the
  formalisation of the meaning of a path).  So

    "foo " + ./bla

  evaluates to "foo /nix/store/hash...-bla", not "foo
  /path/to/current-dir/bla".  This prevents accidental impurities, and
  is more consistent with the treatment of derivation outputs, e.g.,
  `"foo " + bla' where `bla' is a derivation.  (Here `bla' would be
  replaced by the output path of `bla'.)
2006-10-16 15:55:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2ab4bc44c7 * Builtin function `add' to add integers.
* Put common test functions in tests/lang/lib.nix.
2006-09-22 15:29:21 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 75068e7d75 * Use a proper namespace.
* Optimise header file usage a bit.
* Compile the parser as C++.
2006-09-04 21:06:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f93f7b75be * Okay, that's a bit harder than expected. 2006-08-30 13:10:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 943ab38a0d * Refactoring: move strictEval to libexpr. 2006-08-24 13:39:22 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4661282fde * `nix-instantiate ... --arg NAME VALUE': allow arguments to be passed
to functions from the command line.
* nix-build: started removing backticks.
2006-07-28 16:03:28 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ca2238cf81 * Refactoring: get the selection path stuff out of getDerivations()
and put it into a separate function findAlongAttrPath().
2006-07-26 15:05:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4f3725b167 * Better error messages (especially wrt types). 2006-07-19 15:36:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra d300b4383d * Optimise null-ary term builders. Also declare all term builder
functions as pure, which might improve performance a bit.
2006-05-02 21:58:46 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6cecad2be0 * Allow string concatenations involving derivations, e.g.,
configureFlags = "--with-freetype2-library="
      + freetype + "/lib";
2006-05-01 09:56:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b69e469328 * In `nix-env', look for derivations inside attribute sets that have
the `recurseForDerivations' attribute set to `true'.
2006-03-23 16:43:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 37d1b1cafd * `nix-env -qa --description' shows human-readable descriptions of
packages (provided that they have a `meta.description' attribute).
  E.g.,

  $ ./src/nix-env/nix-env -qa --description gcc
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for sparc-linux)
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for mips-linux)
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x (cross-compiler for arm-linux)
  gcc-4.0.2   GNU Compiler Collection, 4.0.x
2006-03-10 16:20:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 922697c8b2 * Big speedup (factor > 2.5) in all nix-env operations that do actual
instantiation, e.g. "nix-env -i" and "nix-env -qas" (but not
  "nix-env -qa").  It turns out that many redundant calls to
  addToStore(path) were made, which reads and hashes the entire path.
  For instance, the bash bootstrap binary in Nixpkgs would be read and
  hashed many times.  As a result nix-env would spend around 92% of
  its time in the function sha256_block (according to callgrind).
  Some simple memoization fixes this.
2006-03-09 15:09:18 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9088dee9e2 * Some refactoring of the exception handling code so that we can catch
Nix expression assertion failures.
2006-03-08 14:11:19 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 991a130b1e * Added a list concatenation operator:
[1 2 3] ++ [4 5 6] => [1 2 3 4 5 6]
2005-07-25 15:05:34 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f4d44a0026 * Allow certain operations to succeed even if we don't have write
permission to the Nix store or database.  E.g., `nix-env -qa' will
  work, but `nix-env -qas' won't (the latter needs DB access).  The
  option `--readonly-mode' forces this mode; otherwise, it's only
  activated when the database cannot be opened.
2004-10-25 14:38:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra bbfdd64741 * Allow primops with more that 1 arguments. 2004-08-04 10:59:20 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9b44480612 * Use a map to lookup primops.
* Various performance improvements in the evaluator.
* Do not link against unused (and missing!) libraries (-lsglr, etc.).
2004-02-04 16:03:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ac68840e79 * Refactoring: put the Nix expression evaluator in its own library so
that it can be used by multiple programs.
2003-11-19 11:35:41 +00:00
Renamed from src/nix-instantiate/eval.hh (Browse further)