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2023-04-07Finish converting existing comments for internal API docs (#8146)John Ericson
* Finish converting existing comments for internal API docs 99% of this was just reformatting existing comments. Only two exceptions: - Expanded upon `BuildResult::status` compat note - Split up file-level `symbol-table.hh` doc comments to get per-definition docs Also fixed a few whitespace goofs, turning leading tabs to spaces and removing trailing spaces. Picking up from #8133 * Fix two things from comments * Use triple-backtick not indent for `dumpPath` * Convert GNU-style `\`..'` quotes to markdown style in API docs This will render correctly.
2023-03-31Ensure all headers have `#pragma once` and are in API docsJohn Ericson
`///@file` makes them show up in the internal API dos. A tiny few were missing `#pragma once`.
2022-04-26EvalCache AttrKey: Use Symbol instead of std::stringEelco Dolstra
2022-04-25rename SymbolIdx -> Symbol, Symbol -> SymbolStrpennae
after #6218 `Symbol` no longer confers a uniqueness invariant on the string it wraps, it is now possible to create multiple symbols that compare equal but whose string contents have different addresses. this guarantee is now only provided by `SymbolIdx`, leaving `Symbol` only as a string wrapper that knows about the intricacies of how symbols need to be formatted for output. this change renames `SymbolIdx` to `Symbol` to restore the previous semantics of `Symbol` to that name. we also keep the wrapper type and rename it to `SymbolStr` instead of returning plain strings from lookups into the symbol table because symbols are formatted for output in many places. theoretically we do not need `SymbolStr`, only a function that formats a string for output as a symbol, but having to wrap every symbol that appears in a message into eg `formatSymbol()` is error-prone and inconvient.
2022-04-22Move ChunkedVector to its own headerThéophane Hufschmitt
2022-04-21store Symbols in a table as well, like positionspennae
this slightly increases the amount of memory used for any given symbol, but this increase is more than made up for if the symbol is referenced more than once in the EvalState that holds it. on average every symbol should be referenced at least twice (once to introduce a binding, once to use it), so we expect no increase in memory on average. symbol tables are limited to 2³² entries like position tables, and similar arguments apply to why overflow is not likely: 2³² symbols would require as many string instances (at 24 bytes each) and map entries (at 24 bytes or more each, assuming that the map holds on average at most one item per bucket as the docs say). a full symbol table would require at least 192GB of memory just for symbols, which is well out of reach. (an ofborg eval of nixpks today creates less than a million symbols!)
2022-04-21remove Symbol::emptypennae
the only use of this function is to determine whether a lambda has a non-set formal, but this use is arguably better served by Symbol::set and using a non-Symbol instead of an empty symbol in the parser when no such formal is present.
2022-02-21Remove std::string aliasEelco Dolstra
2022-01-13avoid allocations in SymbolTable::createpennae
speeds up parsing by ~3%, system builds by a bit more than 1% # before Benchmark 1: nix search --offline nixpkgs hello Time (mean ± σ): 574.7 ms ± 2.8 ms [User: 566.3 ms, System: 8.0 ms] Range (min … max): 569.2 ms … 580.7 ms 50 runs Benchmark 2: nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix Time (mean ± σ): 394.4 ms ± 0.8 ms [User: 361.8 ms, System: 32.3 ms] Range (min … max): 392.7 ms … 395.7 ms 50 runs Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system' Time (mean ± σ): 2.976 s ± 0.005 s [User: 2.757 s, System: 0.218 s] Range (min … max): 2.966 s … 2.990 s 50 runs # after 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
2020-04-17nix flake show: Use evaluation cacheEelco Dolstra
2019-12-10Make the Store API more type-safeEelco Dolstra
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).
2019-04-11Add environment variable NIX_SHOW_SYMBOLS for dumping the symbol tableEelco Dolstra
2018-05-02Fix some random -Wconversion warningsEelco Dolstra
2017-02-08Include config.h implicitly with '-include config.h' in CFLAGSTuomas Tynkkynen
Because config.h can #define things like _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and not every compilation unit includes config.h, we currently compile half of Nix with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and other half with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS unset. This causes major havoc with the Settings class on e.g. 32-bit ARM, where different compilation units disagree with the struct layout. E.g.: diff --git a/src/libstore/globals.cc b/src/libstore/globals.cc @@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ void Settings::update() _get(useSubstitutes, "build-use-substitutes"); + fprintf(stderr, "at Settings::update(): &useSubstitutes = %p\n", &nix::settings.useSubstitutes); _get(buildUsersGroup, "build-users-group"); diff --git a/src/libstore/remote-store.cc b/src/libstore/remote-store.cc +++ b/src/libstore/remote-store.cc @@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ void RemoteStore::initConnection(Connection & conn) void RemoteStore::setOptions(Connection & conn) { + fprintf(stderr, "at RemoteStore::setOptions(): &useSubstitutes = %p\n", &nix::settings.useSubstitutes); conn.to << wopSetOptions Gave me: at Settings::update(): &useSubstitutes = 0xb6e5c5cb at RemoteStore::setOptions(): &useSubstitutes = 0xb6e5c5c7 That was not a fun one to debug!
2014-10-20Improve printing of ASTsEelco Dolstra
2014-05-26Use std::unordered_setEelco Dolstra
2013-10-24Rename "attribute sets" to "sets"Eelco Dolstra
We don't have any other kind of sets so calling them attribute sets is unnecessarily verbose.
2013-10-08printStats(): Print the size of the symbol table in bytesEelco Dolstra
2013-05-16Show function names in error messagesEelco Dolstra
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': ...
2012-07-18Use "#pragma once" to prevent repeated header file inclusionEelco Dolstra
2010-10-24* Store attribute sets as a vector instead of a map (i.e. a red-blackEelco Dolstra
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).
2010-10-04* If std::tr1::unordered_set is unavailable, use std::set.Eelco Dolstra
2010-04-13* Use std::tr1::unordered_set instead of std::set for the symbolEelco Dolstra
table. This gives a 10% speed increase on `nix-instantiate /etc/nixos/nixos -A system --readonly-mode'.
2010-04-13* Use a symbol table to represent identifiers and attribute namesEelco Dolstra
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.