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Qyriad e67dac1d74 libexpr: rename confusing makeImmutableString -> gcCopyStringIfNeeded
The purpose of this function has little to do with immutability. Value's
strings are never mutated, and the point of this function is to
singleton empty strings.

Change-Id: Ifd41dd952409d54e4d3de9ab59064e6928b0e480
2024-07-20 20:20:01 +00:00
Qyriad a3361557e3 libexpr: refactor gc-agnostic helpers into one place
Change-Id: Icc4b367e4f670d47256f62a3a002cd248a5c2d3b
2024-07-20 20:20:01 +00:00
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
Qyriad 06e65e537b build: expose option to enable or disable precompiled std headers
They are enabled by default, and Meson will also prints whether or not
they're enabled at the bottom at the end of configuration.

Change-Id: I48db238510bf9e74340b86f243f4bbe360794281
2024-06-06 12:46:26 -06:00
Qyriad e54d4c9381 build: fix static linking with a hack
This causes libstore, libexpr, libfetchers, and libutil to be linked
with -Wl,--whole-archive to executables, when building statically.

libstore for the store backends, libexpr for the primops, libfetchers
for the fetcher backends I assume(?), and libutil for the nix::logger
initializer (which notably shows in pre-main constructors when HOME is
not owned by the user. cursed.).

This workaround should be removed when #359 is fixed.

Fixes #306.

Change-Id: Ie9ef0154e09a6ed97920ee8ab23810ca5e2de84c
2024-05-31 21:47:16 -06:00
jade 0f99ed43f1 build-time: remove 20% more by PCH'ing C++ stdlib
It seems like someone implemented precompiled headers a long time ago
and then it never got ported to meson or maybe didn't work at all.

This is, however, blessedly easy to simply implement. I went looking for
`#define` that could affect the result of precompiling the headers, and
as far as I can tell we aren't doing any of that, so this should truly
just be free build time savings.

Previous state:
Compilation (551 times):
  Parsing (frontend):         1302.1 s
  Codegen & opts (backend):    956.3 s

New state:
**** Time summary:
Compilation (567 times):
  Parsing (frontend):         1123.0 s
  Codegen & opts (backend):   1078.1 s

I wonder if the "regression" in codegen time is just doing the PCH
operation a few times, because meson does it per-target.

Change-Id: I664366b8069bab4851308b3a7571bea97ac64022
2024-05-30 21:54:21 +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: #279
Change-Id: I7498e903afa6850a731ef8ce77a70da6b2b46966
2024-05-23 16:45:23 -06:00
Winter Cute 6646b80396 meson: add missing explicit dependency on nlohmann_json
Without this, the Meson setup won't bail out if nlohmann_json is
missing, leading to subpar DX (and maybe worse, but I'm not entirely
sure).

Change-Id: I5913111060226b540dcf003257c99a08e84da0de
2024-03-29 14:16:58 -04:00
eldritch horrors 6e5db5e4a2 meson: install missing/generated headers
one headers (args/root.hh) was simply missing, and the generated headers
were not installed. not all of them *should* be installed either, only a
select few (and sadly this needs a custom target for each one, it seems)

Change-Id: I37b25517895d0e5e521abc1202fa65624de57ed1
2024-03-29 02:45:48 +00:00
eldritch horrors 69bfd21e20 meson: install pkg-config files for libraries
Change-Id: I14b9d81d09f188eacfb9c68bcfb84751c18e3779
2024-03-29 02:45:48 +00:00
Winter Cute 80405d0626 Stop vendoring toml11
We don't apply any patches to it, and vendoring it locks users into
bugs (it hasn't been updated since its introduction in late 2021).

Closes #164

Change-Id: Ied071c841fc30b0dfb575151afd1e7f66970fdb9
2024-03-27 21:04:00 -04:00
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