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Eelco Dolstra fc2443a67c
Merge pull request #5812 from pennae/small-perf-improvements
improve parser performance a bit
2022-01-17 19:49:52 +01:00
pennae ad60dfde2a also cache split regexes, not just match regexes
gives about 1% improvement on system eval, a bit less on nix search.

 # before

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      7.419 s ±  0.045 s    [User: 6.362 s, System: 0.794 s]
    Range (min … max):    7.335 s …  7.517 s    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.921 s ±  0.023 s    [User: 2.626 s, System: 0.210 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.883 s …  2.957 s    20 runs

 # after

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      7.370 s ±  0.059 s    [User: 6.333 s, System: 0.791 s]
    Range (min … max):    7.286 s …  7.541 s    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.891 s ±  0.033 s    [User: 2.606 s, System: 0.210 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.823 s …  2.958 s    20 runs
2022-01-14 14:04:17 +01:00
pennae 34e3bd10e3 avoid copies of parser input data
when given a string yacc will copy the entire input to a newly allocated
location so that it can add a second terminating NUL byte. since the
parser is a very internal thing to EvalState we can ensure that having
two terminating NUL bytes is always possible without copying, and have
the parser itself merely check that the expected NULs are present.

 # before

Benchmark 1: nix search --offline nixpkgs hello
  Time (mean ± σ):     572.4 ms ±   2.3 ms    [User: 563.4 ms, System: 8.6 ms]
  Range (min … max):   566.9 ms … 579.1 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 2: nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
  Time (mean ± σ):     381.7 ms ±   1.0 ms    [User: 348.3 ms, System: 33.1 ms]
  Range (min … max):   380.2 ms … 387.7 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  Time (mean ± σ):      2.936 s ±  0.005 s    [User: 2.715 s, System: 0.221 s]
  Range (min … max):    2.923 s …  2.946 s    50 runs

 # after

Benchmark 1: nix search --offline nixpkgs hello
  Time (mean ± σ):     571.7 ms ±   2.4 ms    [User: 563.3 ms, System: 8.0 ms]
  Range (min … max):   566.7 ms … 579.7 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 2: nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
  Time (mean ± σ):     376.6 ms ±   1.0 ms    [User: 345.8 ms, System: 30.5 ms]
  Range (min … max):   374.5 ms … 379.1 ms    50 runs

Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
  Time (mean ± σ):      2.922 s ±  0.006 s    [User: 2.707 s, System: 0.215 s]
  Range (min … max):    2.906 s …  2.934 s    50 runs
2022-01-13 18:06:15 +01:00
pennae 1bebb1095a cache more often-used symbols for primops
there's a few symbols in primops we can create once and pick them out of
EvalState afterwards instead of creating them every time we need them. this
gives almost 1% speedup to an uncached nix search.
2022-01-13 13:58:33 +01:00
Ben Burdette a963674d88 optinoal error; compiles 2022-01-08 11:03:48 -07:00
Ben Burdette c51b527c28 add env to DebugTrace 2022-01-07 16:37:44 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 2b4c944823 Remove EvalState::mkAttrs() 2022-01-04 20:29:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 17daec0b83 Move empty attrset optimisation 2022-01-04 19:23:11 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra cc08364315 Remove non-method mkString() 2022-01-04 18:24:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 6d9a6d2cc3 Ensure that attrsets are sorted
Previously you had to remember to call value->attrs->sort() after
populating value->attrs. Now there is a BindingsBuilder helper that
wraps Bindings and ensures that sort() is called before you can use
it.
2022-01-04 18:00:33 +01:00
Ben Burdette a47de1ac37 Merge branch 'master' into debug-exploratory-PR 2022-01-03 16:08:28 -07:00
Ben Burdette 9760fa8661 add DebugTrace for the current error 2021-12-27 17:35:27 -07:00
Ben Burdette e5eebda194 DebugTrace 2021-12-23 13:36:39 -07:00
Ben Burdette b4a59a5eec DebugStackTracker class in one place 2021-12-22 15:38:49 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 89faff93e2
Merge pull request #5807 from NixOS/5805-ca-ifd
Fix IFD with CA derivations
2021-12-21 18:47:34 +01:00
regnat d90f9d4b99 Fix IFD with CA derivations
Rewrite the string taken by the IFD-like primops to contain the actual
output paths of the derivations rather than the placeholders

Fix #5805
2021-12-21 09:36:50 +01:00
pennae 09b245690a bulk-allocate Value instances in the evaluator
calling GC_malloc for each value is significantly more expensive than
allocating a bunch of values at once with GC_malloc_many. "a bunch" here
is a GC block size, ie 16KiB or less.

this gives a 1.5% performance boost when evaluating our nixos system.

tested with

nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'

 # on master

  Time (mean ± σ):      3.335 s ±  0.007 s    [User: 2.774 s, System: 0.293 s]
  Range (min … max):    3.315 s …  3.347 s    50 runs

 # with this change

  Time (mean ± σ):      3.288 s ±  0.006 s    [User: 2.728 s, System: 0.292 s]
  Range (min … max):    3.274 s …  3.307 s    50 runs
2021-12-20 23:01:28 +01:00
Ben Burdette f317019edd :d error 2021-12-20 12:32:21 -07:00
Ben Burdette 64c4ba8f66 Merge branch 'master' into debug-merge 2021-11-25 08:53:59 -07:00
Ben Burdette 7e2a3db4eb cleanup 2021-11-09 13:14:49 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 40925337a9 Remove maxPrimOpArity 2021-11-04 15:04:07 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra acd6bddec7 Fix derivation primop 2021-11-04 15:04:00 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 81e7c40264 Optimize primop calls
We now parse function applications as a vector of arguments rather
than as a chain of binary applications, e.g. 'substring 1 2 "foo"' is
parsed as

  ExprCall { .fun = <substring>, .args = [ <1>, <2>, <"foo"> ] }

rather than

  ExprApp (ExprApp (ExprApp <substring> <1>) <2>) <"foo">

This allows primops to be called immediately (if enough arguments are
supplied) without having to allocate intermediate tPrimOpApp values.

On

  $ nix-instantiate --dry-run '<nixpkgs/nixos/release-combined.nix>' -A nixos.tests.simple.x86_64-linux

this gives a substantial performance improvement:

  user CPU time:      median =      0.9209  mean =      0.9218  stddev =      0.0073  min =      0.9086  max =      0.9340  [rejected, p=0.00000, Δ=-0.21433±0.00677]
  elapsed time:       median =      1.0585  mean =      1.0584  stddev =      0.0024  min =      1.0523  max =      1.0623  [rejected, p=0.00000, Δ=-0.20594±0.00236]

because it reduces the number of tPrimOpApp allocations from 551990 to
42534 (i.e. only small minority of primop calls are partially
applied) which in turn reduces time spent in the garbage collector.
2021-11-04 15:03:40 +01:00
regnat af99941279 Make experimental-features a proper type
Rather than having them plain strings scattered through the whole
codebase, create an enum containing all the known experimental features.

This means that
- Nix can now `warn` when an unkwown experimental feature is passed
  (making it much nicer to spot typos and spot deprecated features)
- It’s now easy to remove a feature altogether (once the feature isn’t
  experimental anymore or is dropped) by just removing the field for the
  enum and letting the compiler point us to all the now invalid usages
  of it.
2021-10-26 07:02:31 +02:00
Ben Burdette cbc2f0fe31 remove dead code 2021-10-22 14:02:47 -06:00
Ben Burdette 98eb13691a print staticenv bindings 2021-10-11 16:32:43 -06:00
Ben Burdette 2ee1fa4afd add nullable Expr argument 2021-10-11 14:42:29 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra d39692e6b3 Make builtins.{path,filterSource} work with chroot stores 2021-10-07 14:22:39 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra cfaad7168e Refactoring: Add allowPath() method 2021-10-07 12:11:00 +02:00
Maximilian Bosch 2b02ce0e48
libexpr: throw a more helpful eval-error if a builtin is not available due to a missing feature-flag
I found it somewhat confusing to have an error like

    error: attribute 'getFlake' missing

if the required experimental-feature (`flakes`) is not enabled. Instead,
I'd expect Nix to throw an error just like it's the case when using e.g. `nix
flake` without `flakes` being enabled.

With this change, the error looks like this:

    $ nix-instantiate -E 'builtins.getFlake "nixpkgs"'
    error: Cannot call 'builtins.getFlake' because experimental Nix feature 'flakes' is disabled. You can enable it via '--extra-experimental-features flakes'.

           at «string»:1:1:

                1| builtins.getFlake "nixpkgs"
                 | ^

I didn't use `settings.requireExperimentalFeature` here on purpose
because this doesn't contain a position. Also, it doesn't seem as if we
need to catch the error and check for the missing feature here since
this already happens at evaluation time.
2021-09-29 11:57:15 +02:00
Ben Burdette 21071bfdeb shared_ptr for StaticEnv 2021-09-14 10:49:22 -06:00
Ben Burdette 176911102c printEnvPosChain 2021-09-13 11:57:25 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra 49a932fb18 nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
Fixes #4476.
Fixes #5231.
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 7ee639f9db
Merge pull request #5066 from Radvendii/master
add antiquotations to paths
2021-09-01 12:55:04 +02:00
Taeer Bar-Yam 9da8f5e25d path antiquotations: canonizePath -> canonicalizePath 2021-08-31 08:02:04 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 323cafcb4e
Merge pull request #5191 from hercules-ci/evalstate-lifetime-hygiene
EvalState lifetime hygiene
2021-08-30 12:23:09 +02:00
Robert Hensing 8656b130ea Fix use after free with vImportedDrvToDerivation 2021-08-29 20:42:57 +02:00
Robert Hensing 8bc76acc7c Move vCallFlake into EvalState
This fixes a use-after-free bug:

1. s = new EvalState();
2. callFlake()
3. static vCallFlake now references s
4. delete s;
5. s2 = new EvalState();
6. callFlake()
7. static vCallFlake still references s
8. crash

Nix 2.3 did not have a problem with recreating EvalState.
2021-08-29 20:42:49 +02:00
Robert Hensing f10465774f Force all Pos* to be non-null
This fixes a class of crashes and introduces ptr<T> to make the
code robust against this failure mode going forward.

Thanks regnat for the idea of a ref<T> without overhead!

Closes #4895
Closes #4893
Closes #5127
Closes #5113
2021-08-29 18:11:58 +02:00
Ben Burdette 310c689d31 remove more explicit valmap code 2021-08-25 13:18:27 -06:00
Ben Burdette bd3b5329f9 print env bindings 2021-08-24 16:32:54 -06:00
Ben Burdette 4b5f9b35f0 env to bindings 2021-08-18 21:25:26 -06:00
Ben Burdette 89264d20e6 move valmap to hh; add to env 2021-08-06 11:09:27 -06:00
Taeer Bar-Yam 8f9429dcab add antiquotations to paths 2021-08-06 06:46:05 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra c000cec27f
Merge pull request #5048 from tweag/flox-eval-store
--eval-store and faster closure copying
2021-07-27 12:20:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra bef40c2949 Add --eval-store option 2021-07-22 09:59:51 +02:00
Pamplemousse c1c5dd7449 Avoid global counters
Signed-off-by: Pamplemousse <xav.maso@gmail.com>
2021-07-21 16:49:52 -07:00
Eelco Dolstra 75efa42134 Move <nix/fetchurl.nix> into the nix binary
This makes the statically linked nix binary just work, without needing
any additional files.
2020-12-22 14:43:20 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e8e1d420f3 Don't include <regex> in header files
This reduces compilation time by ~15 seconds (CPU time).

Issue #4045.
2020-09-21 18:22:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f53b5f1058
Add getDoc() function 2020-08-25 13:31:11 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 33b1679d75
Allow primops to have Markdown documentation 2020-08-24 13:16:02 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 25ecfffdc3
Remove PrimOp constructor 2020-08-20 12:34:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c8fa39324a
Generate the nix.conf docs from the source code
This means we don't have two (divergent) sets of option descriptions
anymore.
2020-08-19 18:28:04 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 2ffc058950 Make --no-eval-cache a global setting 2020-08-07 14:13:24 +02:00
John Ericson 9423f64ee2 Parse CA derivations using new output variants
We no longer need `ParsedDerivation` because everything libstore needs
to know about is in the `BasicDerivation` proper.
2020-07-22 23:59:25 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra 54712aaf8a Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-07-06 16:40:10 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 50f13b06fb EvalCache: Store string contexts 2020-06-29 19:08:37 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra adf2fbbdc2 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-06-26 08:46:46 +02:00
Ben Burdette e6f93b94fc Merge branch 'master' into caveman-LOCs 2020-06-18 13:07:53 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra 2a61bbf77f Some backports from the flakes branch 2020-06-18 14:03:00 +02:00
Matthew Bauer f767bedfac Replace struct StorePath with class StorePath
also a similar case with struct Goal
2020-06-17 13:26:37 -04:00
Ben Burdette 6a420d672c print LOC for stdin, string args 2020-05-20 22:18:26 -06:00
Eelco Dolstra b4e23dcd9e nix search: Search legacyPackages recursively 2020-04-27 16:29:26 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra aaa109565e Use a more space/time-efficient representation for the eval cache 2020-04-17 23:04:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 0a10854f85 Misc changes from the flakes branch 2020-03-24 14:34:47 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c34a20e1f6 EvalState::allocAttr(): Add convenience method
(cherry picked from commit c02da99757)
2020-03-24 13:26:37 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 1537e270fb Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-03-20 13:15:11 +01:00
John Ericson 68fe0d9809 Add missing #include <regex> 2020-03-13 21:24:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 35f6651735 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-03-11 17:03:38 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e02481ded2 parseExprFromString(): Use std::string_view 2020-03-11 16:56:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 73b6d87e17
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2020-03-04 13:58:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 401b5bc541
builtins.cache: Cache regular expressions
The evaluator was spending about 1% of its time compiling a small
number of regexes over and over again.
2020-03-04 11:44:33 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 9f4d8c6170 Pluggable fetchers
Flakes are now fetched using an extensible mechanism. Also lots of
other flake cleanups.
2020-01-21 22:56:04 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ecb3a1afa2 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2019-12-11 14:53:30 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra bbe97dff8b Make the Store API more type-safe
Most functions now take a StorePath argument rather than a Path (which
is just an alias for std::string). The StorePath constructor ensures
that the path is syntactically correct (i.e. it looks like
<store-dir>/<base32-hash>-<name>). Similarly, functions like
buildPaths() now take a StorePathWithOutputs, rather than abusing Path
by adding a '!<outputs>' suffix.

Note that the StorePath type is implemented in Rust. This involves
some hackery to allow Rust values to be used directly in C++, via a
helper type whose destructor calls the Rust type's drop()
function. The main issue is the dynamic nature of C++ move semantics:
after we have moved a Rust value, we should not call the drop function
on the original value. So when we move a value, we set the original
value to bitwise zero, and the destructor only calls drop() if the
value is not bitwise zero. This should be sufficient for most types.

Also lots of minor cleanups to the C++ API to make it more modern
(e.g. using std::optional and std::string_view in some places).
2019-12-10 22:06:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 0678e4d56a Move #include
(cherry picked from commit 8beedd4486)
2019-12-05 20:30:29 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra c3c23a52ee Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2019-12-04 00:31:09 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 2d6f1ddbb5
Remove builtins.valueSize
Fixes #3246.
2019-11-28 13:52:42 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra d12d69ea1a
Turn NIX_PATH into a config setting
This allows it to be set in nix.conf.
2019-11-22 23:07:35 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra fd8ee94ab2 Remove #include 2019-11-20 13:04:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 8beedd4486 Move #include 2019-11-20 13:04:39 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e491efe9fb
Use more stable registry URL 2019-11-06 14:20:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b81d9d26f5
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2019-11-04 22:29:31 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra e012384fe9
Merge branch 'tojson-tostring-fix' of https://github.com/mayflower/nix 2019-10-27 12:18:35 +01:00
Robin Gloster e583df5280
builtins.toJSON: fix __toString usage 2019-10-27 10:15:51 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 68e0f23edc Add flags to disallow dirty Git trees and to turn off warnings 2019-09-20 14:29:49 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra f97d3753a1
Require flake.nix to be an attrset (not a non-trivial thunk) 2019-09-09 17:34:38 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c87840ae14
Don't allow arbitrary computations in flake attributes
E.g. you can write 'edition = 201909' but not 'edition = 201909 + 0'.

Fixes #3075.
2019-09-09 16:34:44 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 89468410d5 Extract flake dependencies from the 'outputs' arguments
That is, instead of

  inputs = [ "nixpkgs" ];

  outputs = inputs: ... inputs.nixpkgs ...;

you can write

  outputs = { nixpkgs }: ... inputs.nixpkgs ...;
2019-08-30 11:22:34 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra ebc4dae517 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2019-08-29 16:11:38 +02:00
Graham Christensen ee9c988a1b
Track function start and ends for flame graphs
With this patch, and this file I called `log.py`:

    #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
    #!nix-shell -i python3 -p python3 --pure

    import sys
    from pprint import pprint

    stack = []
    timestack = []

    for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
        components = line.strip().split(" ", 2)
        if components[0] != "function-trace":
            continue

        direction = components[1]
        components = components[2].rsplit(" ", 2)

        loc = components[0]
        _at = components[1]
        time = int(components[2])

        if direction == "entered":
            stack.append(loc)
            timestack.append(time)
        elif direction == "exited":
            dur = time - timestack.pop()
            vst = ";".join(stack)
            print(f"{vst} {dur}")
            stack.pop()

and:

    nix-instantiate --trace-function-calls -vvvv ../nixpkgs/pkgs/top-level/release.nix -A unstable > log.matthewbauer 2>&1
    ./log.py ./log.matthewbauer > log.matthewbauer.folded
    flamegraph.pl --title matthewbauer-post-pr log.matthewbauer.folded > log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

I can make flame graphs like: http://gsc.io/log.matthewbauer.folded.svg

---

Includes test cases around function call failures and tryEval. Uses
RAII so the finish is always called at the end of the function.
2019-08-14 16:09:35 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra 6e4a8c47f4
Put flake-related stuff in its own namespace 2019-05-29 15:31:07 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 66f1d7ee95 Fetch the flake registry from the NixOS/flake-registry repo 2019-05-22 22:56:46 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 3c171851a8 Make the URL/path of the global flake registry configurable 2019-05-07 22:49:13 +02:00
Nick Van den Broeck 24b35bf9e7 Fixed issue #13 2019-04-30 11:26:45 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra c101b29133 Merge remote-tracking branch 'tweag/flake-registries' into flakes 2019-03-27 14:40:36 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra b5565a7081 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into flakes 2019-03-26 11:44:14 +01:00
Nick Van den Broeck a554f523db Combining registries properly 2019-03-23 13:42:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra ef52ccf035
experimental/optional -> optional 2019-03-14 14:10:52 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra beab05851b
nix: Add --flake flag
This allows using an arbitrary "provides" attribute from the specified
flake. For example:

  nix build --flake nixpkgs packages.hello

(Maybe provides.packages should be used for consistency...)
2019-02-12 21:55:43 +01:00