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Eelco Dolstra 7ea6ecf855 addToStore(): Take explicit name argument 2015-03-25 17:06:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b005e63ccf Disable scanning for interior pointers
This may remove the "Repeated allocation of very large block"
warnings.
2015-03-19 20:10:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 726f7f7fc9 Fix Boehm API violation
We were calling GC_INIT() after doing an allocation (in the baseEnv
construction), which is not allowed.
2015-03-19 20:02:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra da6b704b19 Check return values from malloc/strdup 2015-03-19 14:11:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fa47279440 Print some Boehm GC stats 2015-03-18 16:24:54 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 7a84143910 valueSize(): Take into account list/bindings/env size 2015-03-18 14:41:28 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 17c71334e1 forceValueDeep: Add to error prefix 2015-03-06 15:10:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5badc8f975 Improve error message 2015-03-06 14:24:08 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 15d2d3c34e Add restricted evaluation mode
If ‘--option restrict-eval true’ is given, the evaluator will throw an
exception if an attempt is made to access any file outside of the Nix
search path. This is primarily intended for Hydra, where we don't want
people doing ‘builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa’ or stuff like that.
2015-02-23 15:54:31 +01:00
Shea Levy 4646e94610 ExprConcatStrings: canonicalize concatenated paths 2015-02-19 08:39:25 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 8aedaf111e Remove canary stuff 2014-12-12 10:59:50 +01:00
Shea Levy 608110804c Make all ExternalValueBase functions const 2014-12-02 10:27:10 -05:00
Shea Levy 320659b0cd Allow external code using libnixexpr to add types
Code that links to libnixexpr (e.g. plugins loaded with importNative, or
nix-exec) may want to provide custom value types and operations on
values of those types. For example, nix-exec is currently using sets
where a custom IO value type would be more appropriate. This commit
provides a generic hook for such types in the form of tExternal and the
ExternalBase virtual class, which contains all functions necessary for
libnixexpr's type-polymorphic functions (e.g. `showType`) to be
implemented.
2014-12-02 10:27:04 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 4e340a983f forceString(): Accept pos argument 2014-11-25 10:23:36 +01:00
Shea Levy 997defa166 Add functors (callable attribute sets).
With this, attribute sets with a `__functor` attribute can be applied
just like normal functions. This can be used to attach arbitrary
metadata to a function without callers needing to treat it specially.
2014-11-15 16:12:05 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra 3a9b4a1467 Fix more warnings 2014-10-31 08:49:15 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6bb4c0b712 mkList: Scrub better
Clearing v.app.right was not enough, because the length field of a
list only takes 32 bits, so the most significant 32 bits of v.app.left
(a.k.a. v.thunk.env) would remain. This could cause Boehm GC to
interpret it as a valid pointer.

This change reduces maximum RSS for evaluating the ‘tested’ job in
nixos/release-small.nix from 1.33 GiB to 0.80 GiB, and runtime by
about 8%.
2014-10-09 13:08:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b6809608cc Get rid of some unnecessary ExprConcatStrings nodes in dynamic attrs
This gives a ~18% speedup in NixOS evaluation (after converting
most calls to hasAttr/getAttr to dynamic attrs).
2014-10-05 01:04:58 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1418806969 Show total allocations 2014-10-05 00:39:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a17c23426e printValue(): Don't print <CYCLE> for repeated values 2014-10-01 15:54:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 831fc8ea21 Make forceValueDeep work on values with cycles 2014-09-22 16:05:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1e0a799bef Rename strictForceValue -> forceValueDeep 2014-09-22 16:05:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 022618c794 Handle cycles when printing a value
So this no longer crashes with a stack overflow:

  nix-instantiate -E --eval 'let as = { x = as; }; in as'

Instead it prints:

  { x = { x = <CYCLE>; }; }
2014-09-22 16:05:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra eff120d1b9 Add a function ‘valueSize’
It returns the size of value, including all other values and
environments reachable from it. It is intended for debugging memory
consumption issues.
2014-09-22 16:05:00 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 93e4f01ee3 Inline Bindings::find() 2014-09-19 16:56:13 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5b58991a71 Store Attrs inside Bindings
This prevents a double allocation per attribute set.
2014-09-19 16:49:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6e5b02bee4 Add some instrumentation for debugging GC leaks 2014-09-17 15:19:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9472b4157d Fix boost::too_many_args error
Fixes #333.
2014-09-02 22:53:01 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 11849a320e Use proper quotes everywhere 2014-08-20 18:03:48 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 5bed74d1b0 Fix warning about non-existant -I directories 2014-08-13 02:57:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ee7fe64c0a == operator: Ignore string context
There really is no case I can think of where taking the context into
account is useful. Mostly it's just very inconvenient.
2014-06-10 14:02:56 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d8c061e044 Remove ExprBuiltin
It's slower than ExprVar since it doesn't compute a static
displacement. Since we're not using the throw primop in the
implementation of <...> anymore, it's also not really needed.
2014-05-26 17:14:28 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 39d72640c2 Ensure that -I flags get included in nixPath
Also fixes #261.
2014-05-26 16:52:31 +02:00
Shea Levy eac5841970 Provide a more useful error message when a dynamic attr lookup fails 2014-05-15 17:56:24 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8e5fbf4d73 Show position info in attribute selection errors 2014-04-04 22:52:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 4c5faad994 Show position info in Boolean operations 2014-04-04 22:43:52 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bd9b1d97b4 Show position info in string concatenation / addition errors 2014-04-04 22:19:33 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a5fe730940 forceString: Show position info 2014-04-04 21:14:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 27b44b8cf7 forceAttrs: Show position info 2014-04-04 19:11:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 96b695ccab forceList: Show position info 2014-04-04 19:05:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b62d36963c forceInt: Show position info 2014-04-04 18:59:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c28de6d96e Pass position information to primop calls
For example:

  error: `tail' called on an empty list, at
    /home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/misc/hello/ex-2/default.nix:13:7
2014-04-04 18:59:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b72c8d2e5b Include position info in function application
This allows error messages like:

  error: the anonymous function at `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix:1:1'
    called without required argument `foo', at
    `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/lib/modules.nix:77:59'
2014-04-04 18:59:29 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1c2550a2ae boost::shared_ptr -> std::shared_ptr 2014-03-30 00:49:23 +01:00
Shea Levy 049a379ec6 The expr of AttrNames/DynamicAttrDefs is always an ExprConcatStrings 2014-03-10 10:14:50 +01:00
Shea Levy 908e9ce259 If a dynamic attribute name evaluates to null, remove it from the set 2014-03-10 10:14:50 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2caab81660 Revert "Make ifs and asserts tail-recursive"
This reverts commit 273322c773.
2014-03-05 16:18:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c9f6232304 Correctly detect infinite recursion in function application
If we're evaluating some application ‘v = f x’, we can't store ‘f’
temporarily in ‘v’, because if ‘f x’ refers to ‘v’, it will get ‘f’
rather than an infinite recursion error.

Unfortunately, this breaks the tail call optimisation introduced in
c897bac549.

Fixes #217.
2014-02-27 21:47:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 81628a6ccc Merge branch 'master' into make
Conflicts:
	src/libexpr/eval.cc
2014-01-21 15:30:01 +01:00
Shea Levy cd49fe4f9b Don't use any syntactic sugar for dynamic attrs
This doesn't change any functionality but moves some behavior out of the
parser and into the evaluator in order to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-12-31 23:56:26 +00:00
Shea Levy 18fefacf7d Dynamic attrs
This adds new syntax for attribute names:

* attrs."${name}" => getAttr name attrs
* attrs ? "${name}" => isAttrs attrs && hasAttr attrs name
* attrs."${name}" or def => if attrs ? "${name}" then attrs."${name}" else def
* { "${name}" = value; } => listToAttrs [{ inherit name value; }]

Of course, it's a bit more complicated than that. The attribute chains
can be arbitrarily long and contain combinations of static and dynamic
parts (e.g. attrs."${foo}".bar."${baz}" or qux), which is relatively
straightforward for the getAttrs/hasAttrs cases but is more complex for
the listToAttrs case due to rules about duplicate attribute definitions.

For attribute sets with dynamic attribute names, duplicate static
attributes are detected at parse time while duplicate dynamic attributes
are detected when the attribute set is forced. So, for example, { a =
null; a.b = null; "${"c"}" = true; } will be a parse-time error, while
{ a = {}; "${"a"}".b = null; c = true; } will be an eval-time error
(technically that case could theoretically be detected at parse time,
but the general case would require full evaluation). Moreover, duplicate
dynamic attributes are not allowed even in cases where they would be
with static attributes ({ a.b.d = true; a.b.c = false; } is legal, but {
a."${"b"}".d = true; a."${"b"}".c = false; } is not). This restriction
might be relaxed in the future in cases where the static variant would
not be an error, but it is not obvious that that is desirable.

Finally, recursive attribute sets with dynamic attributes have the
static attributes in scope but not the dynamic ones. So rec { a = true;
"${"b"}" = a; } is equivalent to { a = true; b = true; } but rec {
"${"a"}" = true; b = a; } would be an error or use a from the
surrounding scope if it exists.

Note that the getAttr, getAttr or default, and hasAttr are all
implemented purely in the parser as syntactic sugar, while attribute
sets with dynamic attribute names required changes to the AST to be
implemented cleanly.

This is an alternative solution to and closes #167

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-12-31 20:59:49 +00:00
Shea Levy 136f2f7046 Add the ExprBuiltin Expr type to the AST
Certain desugaring schemes may require the parser to use some builtin
function to do some of the work (e.g. currently `throw` is used to
lazily cause an error if a `<>`-style path is not in the search path)
Unfortunately, these names are not reserved keywords, so an expression
that uses such a syntactic sugar will not see the expected behavior
(see tests/lang/eval-okay-redefine-builtin.nix for an example).

This adds the ExprBuiltin AST type, which when evaluated uses the value
from the rootmost variable scope (which of course is initialized
internally and can't shadow any of the builtins).

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-12-31 17:45:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a1114ecdb Drop the dependency on libgc in libmain
Instead, libexpr now depends on libgc.  This means commands like
nix-store that don't do any evaluation no longer require libgc.
2013-11-23 20:19:36 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 06a8ac96e7 Initialise Boehm GC only once 2013-11-23 20:15:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 77c13cdf56 Add a toJSON primop 2013-11-19 00:04:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 285df765b9 Add a primop unsafeGetAttrPos to return the position of an attribute 2013-11-18 22:22:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fc33fd86b7 Add a symbol __curPos that expands to the current source location
I.e. an attribute set { file = <string>; line = <int>; column = <int>; }.
2013-11-18 20:16:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 89e6781cc5 Make function calls show up in stack traces again
Note that adding --show-trace prevents functions calls from being
tail-recursive, so an expression that evaluates without --show-trace
may fail with a stack overflow if --show-trace is given.
2013-11-12 12:51:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c897bac549 Make function calls tail-recursive 2013-11-12 11:32:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 273322c773 Make ifs and asserts tail-recursive
The local Value object prevented g++ from making a tail call.  Not
clear why.  In any case, not using a temporary makes g++ do the tail
call.
2013-11-12 11:32:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4badd7ed17 Get rid of an intermediary on the stack 2013-11-12 11:32:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra ea6bf0c21f Slightly optimize listToAttrs 2013-10-28 07:34:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5bc41d78ff Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is
unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-24 16:41:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 69befd33a9 Remove unnecessary call to forceStringNoCtx 2013-10-24 03:08:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 543d8a5942 Don't require NIX_SHOW_STATS for NIX_COUNT_CALLS 2013-10-24 02:20:54 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra fe95650487 Memoize evalFile() lookups under both the original and resolved name
Previously we only used the resolved name, causing repeated resolution
(e.g. /dir to /dir/default.nix).
2013-10-23 11:19:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f440558acc Don't show <nix/derivation.nix> in stack traces
Messages like

  while evaluating the attribute `outPath' at `/nix/store/212ngf4ph63mp6p1np2bapkfikpakfv7-nix-1.6/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:18:9':

are redundant, because Nix already shows that it's evaluating a derivation:

  while instantiating the derivation named `firefox-24.0' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/default.nix:131:5':
  while evaluating the derivation attribute `nativeBuildInputs' at `/home/eelco/Dev/nixpkgs/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:76:17':
2013-10-17 11:47:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d6a7aa8f48 Revert the behaviour of antiquoted paths to pre-Nix 1.6
Commit 159e621d1a accidentally changed
the behaviour of antiquoted paths, e.g.

  "${/foo}/bar"

used to evaluate to "/nix/store/<hash>-foo/bar" (where /foo gets
copied to the store), but in Nix 1.6 it evaluates to "/foo/bar".  This
is inconsistent, since

  " ${/foo}/bar"

evaluates to " /nix/store/<hash>-foo/bar".  So revert to the old
behaviour.
2013-10-17 00:39:59 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7bdb85453d printStats(): Print the size of the symbol table in bytes 2013-10-08 15:37:08 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 9deb822180 Deduplicate filenames in Pos
This saves ~4 MiB of RAM for NixOS system instantiation, and ~18 MiB
for "nix-env -qa".
2013-10-08 15:36:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra b1e3b1a4ac Treat undefined variable errors consistently
Previously, a undefined variable inside a "with" caused an EvalError
(which can be caught), while outside, it caused a ParseError (which
cannot be caught).  Now both cause an UndefinedVarError (which cannot
be caught).
2013-10-08 14:45:36 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6b47de580f Show the exact position of undefined variables
In particular, undefined variable errors in a "with" previously didn't
show *any* position information, so this should help a lot in those
cases.
2013-10-08 14:40:51 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra a5e0f64db3 Remove some unused functions 2013-10-08 12:30:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 221a2daf34 Merge VarRef into ExprVar 2013-10-08 14:24:53 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 176c666f36 Don't show calls to primops in stack traces
Since they don't have location information, they just give you crap
like:

  while evaluating the builtin function `getAttr':
  while evaluating the builtin function `derivationStrict':
  ...
2013-10-07 18:02:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c945f015de Fix segfault in nix-repl / hydra-eval-jobs
If a "with" attribute set fails to evaluate, we have to make sure its
Env record remains unchanged.  Otherwise, repeated evaluation gives a
segfault:

  nix-repl> :a with 0; { a = x; b = x; }
  Added 2 variables.

  nix-repl> a
  error: value is an integer while an attribute set was expected

  nix-repl> b
  Segmentation fault
2013-10-02 15:24:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 07a08bddf0 nix-env: Load files in ~/.nix-defexpr on demand
So if you do "nix-env -qa -A nixos", then other channels won't be
parsed/evaluated at all.
2013-09-03 15:45:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 6f809194d7 Get rid of the parse tree cache
Since we already cache files in normal form (fileEvalCache), caching
parse trees is redundant.

Note that getting rid of this cache doesn't actually save much memory
at the moment, because parse trees are currently not freed / GC'ed.
2013-09-03 13:01:42 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 57d18df7d0 Add some support code for nix-repl 2013-09-02 18:34:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 33972629d7 Fix whitespace 2013-09-02 16:29:15 +02:00
Shea Levy afc6c1bad6 Simplify inherited attribute handling
This reduces the difference between inherited and non-inherited
attribute handling to the choice of which env to use (in recs and lets)
by setting the AttrDef::e to a new ExprVar in the parser rather than
carrying a separate AttrDef::v VarRef member.

As an added bonus, this allows inherited attributes that inherit from a
with to delay forcing evaluation of the with's attributes.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-08-26 11:31:56 +02:00
Ivan Kozik 34bb806f74 Fix typos, especially those that end up in the Nix manual 2013-08-26 11:15:22 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra d308aeaf53 Store Nix integers as longs
So on 64-bit systems, integers are now 64-bit.

Fixes #158.
2013-08-19 12:35:03 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 46ffcce0c3 In the profiler output, show function names (if available) 2013-08-02 18:29:23 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 159e621d1a Overload the ‘+’ operator to support integer addition 2013-08-02 15:21:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a470fc345 Make Env smaller
Commit 20866a7031 added a ‘withAttrs’
field to Env, which is annoying because it makes every Env structure
bigger and we allocate millions of them.  E.g. NixOS evaluation took
18 MiB more.  So this commit squeezes ‘withAttrs’ into values[0].
Probably should use a union...
2013-07-31 12:44:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 8ae6d55db1 Don't use NULL 2013-07-31 12:11:14 +02:00
Shea Levy e068f49f7d Avoid thunks when a fromWith var can be looked up without evaluation
Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-07-31 11:48:39 +02:00
Shea Levy 20866a7031 Delay evaulation of with attrs until a variable lookup needs them
Evaluation of attribute sets is strict in the attribute names, which
means immediate evaluation of `with` attribute sets rules out some
potentially interesting use cases (e.g. where the attribute names of one
set depend in some way on another but we want to bring those names into
scope for some values in the second set).

The major example of this is overridable self-referential package sets
(e.g. all-packages.nix). With immediate `with` evaluation, the only
options for such sets are to either make them non-recursive and
explicitly use the name of the overridden set in non-overridden one
every time you want to reference another package, or make the set
recursive and use the `__overrides` hack. As shown in the test case that
comes with this commit, though, delayed `with` evaluation allows a nicer
third alternative.

Signed-off-by: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
2013-07-31 11:48:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 18a48d80a0 Show function names in error messages
Functions in Nix are anonymous, but if they're assigned to a
variable/attribute, we can use the variable/attribute name in error
messages, e.g.

while evaluating `concatMapStrings' at `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/strings.nix:18:25':
...
2013-05-16 19:08:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 1b3a03f161 Show which function argument was unexpected
Fixes #116.
2013-05-16 17:56:14 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 229567293c Shut up a compiler warning 2013-05-16 17:48:19 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bdd4646338 Revert "Prevent config.h from being clobbered"
This reverts commit 28bba8c44f.
2013-03-08 01:24:59 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 28bba8c44f Prevent config.h from being clobbered 2013-03-07 23:55:55 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 5f18cd2e84 Make "${./path} ..." evaluate to a string, not a path
Wacky string coercion semantics caused expressions like

  exec = "${./my-script} params...";

to evaluate to a path (‘/path/my-script params’), because
anti-quotations are desuged to string concatenation:

  exec = ./my-script + " params...";

By constrast, adding a space at the start would yield a string as
expected:

  exec = " ${./my-script} params...";

Now the first example also evaluates to a string.
2013-02-08 20:04:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8eed07cda4 nix-env -q --out-path: Support multiple outputs
We now print all output paths of a package, e.g.

  openssl-1.0.0i  bin=/nix/store/gq2mvh0wb9l90djvsagln3aqywqmr6vl-openssl-1.0.0i-bin;man=/nix/store/7zwf5r5hsdarl3n86dasvb4chm2xzw9n-openssl-1.0.0i-man;/nix/store/cj7xvk7fjp9q887359j75pw3pzjfmqf1-openssl-1.0.0i

or (in XML mode)

  <item attrPath="openssl" name="openssl-1.0.0i" system="x86_64-linux">
    <output name="bin" path="/nix/store/gq2mvh0wb9l90djvsagln3aqywqmr6vl-openssl-1.0.0i-bin" />
    <output name="man" path="/nix/store/7zwf5r5hsdarl3n86dasvb4chm2xzw9n-openssl-1.0.0i-man" />
    <output name="out" path="/nix/store/cj7xvk7fjp9q887359j75pw3pzjfmqf1-openssl-1.0.0i" />
  </item>
2012-11-28 13:49:44 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6c98e6a5de Optionally ignore null-valued derivation attributes
This allows adding attributes like

  attr = if stdenv.system == "bla" then something else null;

without changing the resulting derivation on non-<bla> platforms.

We once considered adding a special "ignore" value for this purpose,
but using null seems more elegant.
2012-11-27 15:01:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 408a7bfac1 nix-instantiate: Fix read-only evaluation 2012-11-26 17:41:10 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 88164325fa Fix a segfault when auto-calling a "a@{...}" function
Since the called function can return its argument attribute set
(e.g. "a"), the latter should not be allocated on the stack.

Reported by Shea.
2012-11-09 15:09:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a7084567f Add a ‘--repair’ flag to nix-instantiate
This allows repairing corrupted derivations and other source files.
2012-10-03 15:09:18 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 76e88871b2 Templatise tokenizeString() 2012-09-19 15:43:23 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e94806d030 Merge branch 'master' into no-manifests 2012-08-27 11:09:07 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 767101824a Avoid concatenating lists of one string 2012-08-13 15:10:29 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e5c589d271 Don't allocate empty lists
This saves about 4 MB when evaluating a NixOS system configuration.
2012-08-13 15:02:09 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 3e89ef597c Optimise concatenating a list to an empty list
More precisely, in concatLists, if all lists except one are empty,
then just return the non-empty list.  This reduces the number of list
element allocations by 32% when evaluating a NixOS system
configuration.
2012-08-13 14:58:54 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 198d0338be Add a primop ‘concatLists’
This can serve as a generic efficient list builder.  For instance, the
function ‘catAttrs’ in Nixpkgs can be rewritten from

  attr: l: fold (s: l: if hasAttr attr s then [(getAttr attr s)] ++ l else l) [] l

to

  attr: l: builtins.concatLists (map (s: if hasAttr attr s then [(getAttr attr s)] else []) l)

Statistics before:

  time elapsed: 1.08683
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1384376 (35809568 bytes)
  list elements: 6946783 (55574264 bytes)
  list concatenations: 37434
  values allocated: 1760440 (42250560 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18273
  number of thunks: 1297673
  number of thunks avoided: 1380759
  number of attr lookups: 430802
  number of primop calls: 628912
  number of function calls: 1333544

Statistics after (including new catAttrs):

  time elapsed: 0.959854
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1010198 (26829296 bytes)
  list elements: 1984878 (15879024 bytes)
  list concatenations: 30488
  values allocated: 1589760 (38154240 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18274
  number of thunks: 1040925
  number of thunks avoided: 1038428
  number of attr lookups: 438419
  number of primop calls: 474844
  number of function calls: 959366
2012-08-13 01:53:10 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 4ccd48ce24 Add a "filter" primop
Evaluation of a NixOS configuration spends quite a lot of time in the
"filter" function in Nixpkgs.  As implemented in Nixpkgs, this is a
O(n^2) operation, so it's a good candidate for providing a more
efficient (i.e. primop) implementation.  Using it gives a ~10% speed
increase and a significant reduction in the number of evaluations.

Statistics before (on a NixOS system config):

  time elapsed: 1.3258
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1980939 (50127080 bytes)
  list elements: 14679308 (117434464 bytes)
  list concatenations: 50828
  values allocated: 2098938 (50374512 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18271
  number of thunks: 1645752
  number of thunks avoided: 1921196
  number of attr lookups: 430798
  number of primop calls: 838807
  number of function calls: 1930107

Statistics after:

  time elapsed: 1.17982
  size of a value: 24
  environments allocated: 1543334 (39624560 bytes)
  list elements: 9612638 (76901104 bytes)
  list concatenations: 37434
  values allocated: 1854933 (44518392 bytes)
  attribute sets allocated: 392040
  right-biased unions: 186334
  values copied in right-biased unions: 591137
  symbols in symbol table: 18272
  number of thunks: 1392467
  number of thunks avoided: 1507311
  number of attr lookups: 430801
  number of primop calls: 691600
  number of function calls: 1492502
2012-08-13 00:28:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 62f72eb9e1 Add some more evaluations stats 2012-08-12 23:41:48 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra e82767910c Add some basic profiling support to the evaluator
Setting the environment variable NIX_COUNT_CALLS to 1 enables some
basic profiling in the evaluator.  It will count calls to functions
and primops as well as evaluations of attributes.

For example, to see where evaluation of a NixOS configuration spends
its time:

$ NIX_SHOW_STATS=1 NIX_COUNT_CALLS=1 ./src/nix-instantiate/nix-instantiate '<nixos>' -A system --readonly-mode
...
calls to 39 primops:
    239532 head
    233962 tail
    191252 hasAttr
...
calls to 1595 functions:
    224157 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:19'
    221767 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:14'
    221767 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix:17:10'
...
evaluations of 7088 attributes:
    167377 undefined position
    132459 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/attrsets.nix:119:41'
     47322 `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/attrsets.nix:13:21'
...
2012-08-12 23:29:28 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 97421eb5ec Refactor settings processing
Put all Nix configuration flags in a Settings object.
2012-07-30 19:55:41 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 1217204c81 Remove dead code 2012-07-17 14:07:52 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra f491ae97d4 * Inline some functions and get rid of the indirection through
EvalState::eval().  This gives a 12% speedup on ‘nix-instantiate
  /etc/nixos/nixos/ -A system --readonly-mode’ (from 1.01s to 0.89s).
2012-02-04 13:50:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2bda12ef3b * Print elapsed evaluation time. 2012-02-04 13:27:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 330df4b4db * Allow comparisons between derivations by comparing the outPath
attributes.
2012-01-19 23:08:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 9fe24c5a0d * Don't create thunks for simple constants (integers, strings, paths)
and allocate them only once.
* Move Value and related functions into value.hh.
2012-01-07 17:26:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b52966e821 * Remove dead code. 2012-01-04 21:47:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 35f2a6ba82 * Don't use dynamic_cast, it's very slow. "nix-instantiate
/etc/nixos/nixos -A system" spent about 10% of its time in
  dynamic_cast.
2012-01-04 21:24:11 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 921111d197 * Move the implementation of the ‘derivation’ primop into a separate
file.
2012-01-03 14:01:47 +00:00
Shea Levy 24b65937e1 Remove the unused sCurrentOutput symbol 2011-11-06 06:28:34 +00:00
Shea Levy 2721e9f56f Merge from trunk 2011-11-06 00:13:09 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a12095d3be * In printValueAsXML, handle the case where a "type" attribute is not
a string.  This happens in the NixOS option system.
* Remove a bogus comparison of a unsigned integer with -1.
2011-10-27 19:06:23 +00:00
Shea Levy ffa038f66d Add an sCurrentOutput member to EvalState 2011-09-16 11:30:44 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2d663b502d * Cache the result of file evaluation (i.e, memoize evalFile()). This
prevents files from being evaluated and stored as values multiple
  times.  For instance, evaluation of the ‘system’ attribute in NixOS
  causes ‘nixpkgs/pkgs/lib/lists.nix’ to be evaluated 2019 times.

  Caching gives a modest speedup and a decent memory footprint
  reduction (e.g., from 1.44s to 1.28s, and from 81 MiB to 59 MiB with
  GC_INITIAL_HEAP_SIZE=100000 on my system).
2011-08-06 19:45:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 00a724ebc6 * Remove a debug statement. 2011-08-06 18:24:43 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 07340b8be7 * Add the Nix corepkgs to the end of the search path. This makes it
possible for other Nix expressions to use corepkgs (mostly useful
  for the buildenv function).
2011-08-06 18:23:38 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 1ecc97b6bd * Add a Nix expression search path feature. Paths between angle
brackets, e.g.

    import <nixpkgs/pkgs/lib>

  are resolved by looking them up relative to the elements listed in
  the search path.  This allows us to get rid of hacks like

    import "${builtins.getEnv "NIXPKGS_ALL"}/pkgs/lib"

  The search path can be specified through the ‘-I’ command-line flag
  and through the colon-separated ‘NIX_PATH’ environment variable,
  e.g.,

    $ nix-build -I /etc/nixos ...

  If a file is not found in the search path, an error message is
  lazily thrown.
2011-08-06 16:05:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 54945a2950 * Refactoring: move parseExprFromFile() and parseExprFromString() into
the EvalState class.
2011-08-06 13:02:55 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a623a10c7 * Allow a default value in attribute selection by writing
x.y.z or default

  (as originally proposed in
  https://mail.cs.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2009-September/002989.html).

  For instance, an expression like

    stdenv.lib.attrByPath ["features" "ckSched"] false args

  can now be written as

    args.features.ckSched or false
2011-07-13 12:19:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b9e29b1c8 * Change the right-hand side of the ‘.’ operator from an attribute to
an attribute path.  This is a refactoring to support default values.
2011-07-06 12:28:57 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5637037802 * In the ‘?’ operator, allow attribute paths. For instance, you can
write ‘attrs ? a.b’ to test whether ‘attrs’ has an attribute ‘a’
  containing an attribute ‘b’.  This is more convenient than ‘attrs ?
  a && attrs.a ? b’.

  Slight change in the semantics: it's no longer an error if the
  left-hand side of ‘?’ is not an attribute set.  In that case it just
  returns false.  So, ‘null ? foo’ no longer throws an error.
2011-07-06 10:58:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 538b7caab0 * Don't allocate a big initial GC address space on machines with
little RAM.  Even if the memory isn't actually used, it can cause
  problems with the overcommit heuristics in the kernel.  So use a VM
  space of 25% of RAM, up to 384 MB.
2011-02-10 14:31:04 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 5a6b039802 * Don't call GC_expand_hp unless we're actually using the garbage
collector.
2011-02-09 22:59:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0c4828ea05 * new(UseGC) is inexplicably slower than GC_MALLOC, so prefer the
latter.
2010-10-28 12:50:01 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e11e6fb1c6 * Handle out of memory condition. 2010-10-28 12:29:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 43535499f3 * When allocating an attribute set, reserve enough space for all
elements.  This prevents the vector from having to resize itself.
2010-10-24 20:09:37 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e0b7fb8f27 * Keep attribute sets in sorted order to speed up attribute lookups.
* Simplify the representation of attributes in the AST.
* Change the behaviour of listToAttrs() in case of duplicate names.
2010-10-24 19:52:33 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 2dc6d50941 * Don't create thunks for variable lookups (if possible). This
significantly reduces the number of values allocated (e.g. from 8.7m
  to 4.9m for the Bittorrent test).
2010-10-24 14:20:02 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 0b305c534f * Store attribute sets as a vector instead of a map (i.e. a red-black
tree).  This saves a lot of memory.  The vector should be sorted so
  that names can be looked up using binary search, but this is not the
  case yet.  (Surprisingly, looking up attributes using linear search
  doesn't have a big impact on performance.)

  Memory consumption for

    $ nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos/tests -A bittorrent.test --readonly-mode

  on x86_64-linux with GC enabled is now 185 MiB (compared to 946
  MiB on the trunk).
2010-10-24 00:41:29 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra a247d20604 * Fix compiling without Boehm.
* Fix the stats.
2010-10-23 22:58:24 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra b2ba62170c * Optimise string constants by putting them in the symbol table. 2010-10-23 21:11:59 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 8ac06726b9 * Make Value smaller by not storing redundant PrimOp info.
* Clear pointers in Values after overwriting them to make sure that no
  objects are kept alive unnecessarily.
2010-10-23 20:07:47 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 3f66cfb96b * Remove allocValues(). 2010-10-23 18:18:07 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 4dee289550 * In environments, store pointers to values rather than values. This
improves GC effectiveness a bit more (because a live value doesn't
  keep other values in the environment plus the parent environments
  alive), and removes the need for copy nodes.
2010-10-22 15:51:52 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 41c45a9b31 * Store Value nodes outside of attribute sets. I.e., Attr now stores
a pointer to a Value, rather than the Value directly.  This improves
  the effectiveness of garbage collection a lot: if the Value is
  stored inside the set directly, then any live pointer to the Value
  causes all other attributes in the set to be live as well.
2010-10-22 14:47:42 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 64c3325b0b * Make building against the Boehm GC a configure option. 2010-10-22 13:39:15 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 76feaf016a * Keep some more stats. 2010-10-20 15:48:00 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra e879a0371b * Use the Boehm garbage collector to reclaim unused memory in the Nix
expression evaluator.
2010-10-20 11:38:30 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra df50916e46 * Oops - "null" was displayed as "true". 2010-08-27 12:10:56 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 6d6200f37a * Optimisation in the // operator: if one of the sets is empty, return
the other set.
2010-08-02 16:31:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra f16fe2af8d * builtins.toXML: propagate the string context. This is a regression
from the old ATerm-based evaluator.
2010-06-10 10:29:50 +00:00