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Eelco Dolstra
5cd72598fe Add support for impure derivations
Impure derivations are derivations that can produce a different result
every time they're built. Example:

  stdenv.mkDerivation {
    name = "impure";
    __impure = true; # marks this derivation as impure
    outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
    outputHashMode = "recursive";
    buildCommand = "date > $out";
  };

Some important characteristics:

* This requires the 'impure-derivations' experimental feature.

* Impure derivations are not "cached". Thus, running "nix-build" on
  the example above multiple times will cause a rebuild every time.

* They are implemented similar to CA derivations, i.e. the output is
  moved to a content-addressed path in the store. The difference is
  that we don't register a realisation in the Nix database.

* Pure derivations are not allowed to depend on impure derivations. In
  the future fixed-output derivations will be allowed to depend on
  impure derivations, thus forming an "impurity barrier" in the
  dependency graph.

* When sandboxing is enabled, impure derivations can access the
  network in the same way as fixed-output derivations. In relaxed
  sandboxing mode, they can access the local filesystem.
2022-03-31 13:43:20 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
86b05ccd54 Only provide builtin.{getFlake,fetchClosure} is the corresponding experimental feature is enabled
This allows writing fallback code like

  if builtins ? fetchClosure then
    builtins.fetchClose { ... }
  else
    builtins.storePath ...
2022-03-25 14:04:18 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
a0259a21a4 Don't hide repeated values while generating manifest.nix
Fixes #6243.
2022-03-22 13:18:56 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
732296ddc0 printValue(): <REPEAT> -> «repeated»
This ensures that it doesn't get parsed as a valid Nix expression.
2022-03-22 13:00:27 +01:00
John Ericson
4d6a3806d2 Decode string context straight to using StorePaths
I gather decoding happens on demand, so I hope don't think this should
have any perf implications one way or the other.
2022-03-18 15:36:11 +00:00
John Ericson
91adfb8894 Create some type aliases for string Contexts 2022-03-11 22:30:10 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
aee56e0f89 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/eval-suggestions' 2022-03-11 12:02:26 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
31a392dfe2 Merge pull request #5865 from pennae/memory-friendliness
be more memory friendly
2022-03-11 11:52:39 +01:00
pennae
c96460f352 force-inline a few much-used functions
these functions are called a whole lot, and they're all comparatively small.
always inlining them gives ~0.7% performance boost on eval.

before:

  Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      6.935 s ±  0.052 s    [User: 5.852 s, System: 0.853 s]
    Range (min … max):    6.808 s …  7.026 s    20 runs

  Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     329.8 ms ±   2.7 ms    [User: 299.0 ms, System: 30.8 ms]
    Range (min … max):   326.6 ms … 336.5 ms    20 runs

  Benchmark 3: nix flakes eval --raw --impure --file expr.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.655 s ±  0.038 s    [User: 2.364 s, System: 0.220 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.574 s …  2.737 s    20 runs

after:

  Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      6.912 s ±  0.036 s    [User: 5.823 s, System: 0.856 s]
    Range (min … max):    6.849 s …  6.980 s    20 runs

  Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     325.1 ms ±   2.5 ms    [User: 293.2 ms, System: 31.8 ms]
    Range (min … max):   322.2 ms … 332.8 ms    20 runs

  Benchmark 3: nix flakes eval --raw --impure --file expr.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.636 s ±  0.024 s    [User: 2.352 s, System: 0.226 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.574 s …  2.681 s    20 runs
2022-03-08 23:30:18 +01:00
pennae
60ed4e908a cache singleton Envs just like Values
vast majority of envs is this size.

before:

  Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      6.946 s ±  0.041 s    [User: 5.875 s, System: 0.835 s]
    Range (min … max):    6.834 s …  7.005 s    20 runs

  Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     330.3 ms ±   2.5 ms    [User: 299.2 ms, System: 30.9 ms]
    Range (min … max):   327.5 ms … 337.7 ms    20 runs

  Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.671 s ±  0.035 s    [User: 2.370 s, System: 0.232 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.597 s …  2.749 s    20 runs

after:

  Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      6.935 s ±  0.052 s    [User: 5.852 s, System: 0.853 s]
    Range (min … max):    6.808 s …  7.026 s    20 runs

  Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     329.8 ms ±   2.7 ms    [User: 299.0 ms, System: 30.8 ms]
    Range (min … max):   326.6 ms … 336.5 ms    20 runs

  Benchmark 3: nix flakes eval --raw --impure --file expr.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.655 s ±  0.038 s    [User: 2.364 s, System: 0.220 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.574 s …  2.737 s    20 runs
2022-03-08 23:30:18 +01:00
pennae
4b2b0d3a55 remove GC_PTR_STORE_AND_DIRTY
turns out it's only necessary for MANUAL_VDB, which nix doesn't use. omitting
them gives a slight performance improvement on eval.

before:

  Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      6.988 s ±  0.061 s    [User: 5.935 s, System: 0.845 s]
    Range (min … max):    6.865 s …  7.075 s    20 runs

  Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     332.6 ms ±   3.9 ms    [User: 299.6 ms, System: 32.9 ms]
    Range (min … max):   328.1 ms … 339.1 ms    20 runs

  Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.681 s ±  0.049 s    [User: 2.382 s, System: 0.228 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.607 s …  2.776 s    20 runs

after:

  Benchmark 1: nix flakes search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      6.946 s ±  0.041 s    [User: 5.875 s, System: 0.835 s]
    Range (min … max):    6.834 s …  7.005 s    20 runs

  Benchmark 2: nix flakes eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     330.3 ms ±   2.5 ms    [User: 299.2 ms, System: 30.9 ms]
    Range (min … max):   327.5 ms … 337.7 ms    20 runs

  Benchmark 3: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.671 s ±  0.035 s    [User: 2.370 s, System: 0.232 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.597 s …  2.749 s    20 runs
2022-03-08 23:30:18 +01:00
regnat
f6078e474d Also display some suggestions for invalid formal arguments
```console
$ nix eval --expr '({ foo ? 1 }: foo) { fob = 2; }'
error: anonymous function at (string):1:2 called with unexpected argument 'fob'

       at «string»:1:1:

            1| ({ foo ? 1 }: foo) { fob = 2; }
             | ^
       Did you mean foo?
```

Not that because Nix will first check for _missing_ arguments before
checking for extra arguments, `({ foo }: foo) { fob = 1; }` will
complain about the missing `foo` argument (rather than extra `fob`) and
so won’t display a suggestion.
2022-03-08 16:40:22 +01:00
regnat
33b7514035 Try and make the darwin build happy 2022-03-08 16:07:17 +01:00
regnat
0c6e46e349 Add some suggestions to the evaluator
Make the evaluator show some suggestions when trying to access an
invalid field from an attrset.

```console
$ nix eval --expr '{ foo = 1; }.foa'
error: attribute 'foa' missing

       at «string»:1:1:

            1| { foo = 1; }.foa
             | ^
       Did you mean foo?
```
2022-03-08 06:21:45 +01:00
Robert Hensing
da260f579d dupStringWithLen -> makeImmutableString
Refactor the `size == 0` logic into a new helper function that
replaces dupStringWithLen.
The name had to change, because unlike a `dup`-function, it does
not always allocate a new string.
2022-03-07 16:09:12 +01:00
Robert Hensing
bbf55383e7 Value::mkPath: Avoid potential crash from null string_view 2022-03-07 16:09:12 +01:00
Robert Hensing
1b978596b5 Value::mkString: Avoid crash from null string_view 2022-03-07 16:09:12 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e9c04c3351 Be more aggressive in hiding repeated values
We now memoize on Bindings / list element vectors rather than Values,
so that e.g. two Values that point to the same Bindings will be
printed only once.
2022-03-03 13:33:34 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
ecff9d969a printValue(): Don't show repeated values
Fixes #6157.
2022-03-03 13:18:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b55d79728c Add EvalState::coerceToStorePath() helper
This is useful whenever we want to evaluate something to a store path
(e.g. in get-drvs.cc).

Extracted from the lazy-trees branch (where we can require that a
store path must come from a store source tree accessor).
2022-03-02 23:58:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
d974d2ad59 fetch{url,Tarball}: Remove 'narHash' attribute
This was introduced in #6174. However fetch{url,Tarball} are legacy
and we shouldn't have an undocumented attribute that does the same
thing as one that already exists ('sha256').
2022-03-01 11:30:26 +01:00
Robert Hensing
ee019d0afc Add EvalState::allowAndSetStorePathString helper
This switches addPath from `printStorePath` to `toRealPath`.
2022-02-28 21:37:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
df552ff53e Remove std::string alias (for real this time)
Also use std::string_view in a few more places.
2022-02-25 16:13:02 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
bd383d1b6f Make most calls to determinePos() lazy 2022-02-04 00:33:21 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
4c755c3b3f Merge branch 'issue-3505' of https://github.com/kamadorueda/nix 2022-02-04 00:33:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
17e3f353df Merge branch 'parser-improvements' of https://github.com/pennae/nix 2022-02-02 12:45:44 +01:00
pennae
d439dceb3b optionally return string_view from coerceToString
we'll retain the old coerceToString interface that returns a string, but callers
that don't need the returned value to outlive the Value it came from can save
copies by using the new interface instead. for values that weren't stringy we'll
pass a new buffer argument that'll be used for storage and shouldn't be
inspected.
2022-01-27 22:15:30 +01:00
pennae
41d70a2fc8 return string_views from forceString*
once a string has been forced we already have dynamic storage allocated for it,
so we can easily reuse that storage instead of copying.
2022-01-27 17:15:43 +01:00
pennae
fd5aa6ee3e allocate a GC root value for the Value cache pointer
keeping it as a simple data member means it won't be scanned by the GC, so
eventually the GC will collect a cache that is still referenced (resulting in
use-after-free of cache elements).

fixes #5962
2022-01-22 21:19:56 +01:00
Kevin Amado
50efc5499a
determinePos: remove from critical path 2022-01-21 16:32:43 -05:00
Kevin Amado
c3896e19d0
forceAttrs: make pos mandatory 2022-01-21 16:32:43 -05:00
Kevin Amado
49b0bb0206
forceValue: make pos mandatory
- Make passing the position to `forceValue` mandatory,
  this way we remember people that the position is
  important for better error messages
- Add pos to all `forceValue` calls
2022-01-21 16:32:43 -05:00
pennae
7d4cc5515c defer formals duplicate check for incresed efficiency all round
if we defer the duplicate argument check for lambda formals we can use more
efficient data structures for the formals set, and we can get rid of the
duplication of formals names to boot. instead of a list of formals we've seen
and a set of names we'll keep a vector instead and run a sort+dupcheck step
before moving the parsed formals into a newly created lambda. this improves
performance on search and rebuild by ~1%, pure parsing gains more (about 4%).

this does reorder lambda arguments in the xml output, but the output is still
stable. this shouldn't be a problem since argument order is not semantically
important anyway.

 before

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.550 s ±  0.060 s    [User: 6.470 s, System: 1.664 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.435 s …  8.666 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     346.7 ms ±   2.1 ms    [User: 312.4 ms, System: 34.2 ms]
    Range (min … max):   343.8 ms … 353.4 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.720 s ±  0.031 s    [User: 2.415 s, System: 0.231 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.662 s …  2.780 s    20 runs

 after

  nix search --no-eval-cache --offline ../nixpkgs hello
    Time (mean ± σ):      8.462 s ±  0.063 s    [User: 6.398 s, System: 1.661 s]
    Range (min … max):    8.339 s …  8.542 s    20 runs

  nix eval -f ../nixpkgs/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
    Time (mean ± σ):     329.1 ms ±   1.4 ms    [User: 296.8 ms, System: 32.3 ms]
    Range (min … max):   326.1 ms … 330.8 ms    20 runs

  nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.687 s ±  0.035 s    [User: 2.392 s, System: 0.228 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.626 s …  2.754 s    20 runs
2022-01-19 17:07:29 +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
pennae
5838354d34 optimize ExprConcatStrings::eval
constructing an ostringstream for non-string concats (like integer addition) is
a small constant cost that we can avoid. for string concats we can keep all the
string temporaries we get from coerceToString and concatenate them in one go,
which saves a lot of intermediate temporaries and copies in ostringstream. we
can also avoid copying the concatenated string again by directly allocating it
in GC memory and moving ownership of the concatenated string into the target
value.

saves about 2% on system eval.

before:

  Benchmark 1: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.837 s ±  0.031 s    [User: 2.562 s, System: 0.191 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.796 s …  2.892 s    20 runs

after:

  Benchmark 1: nix eval --raw --impure --expr 'with import <nixpkgs/nixos> {}; system'
    Time (mean ± σ):      2.790 s ±  0.035 s    [User: 2.532 s, System: 0.187 s]
    Range (min … max):    2.722 s …  2.836 s    20 runs
2022-01-12 10:07:21 +01:00
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
ed93aec3c3 Remove non-method mkPath() 2022-01-04 18:45:16 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
263a8d293c Remove non-method mk<X> functions 2022-01-04 18:40:39 +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
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
Eelco Dolstra
cc6406cc59 Merge branch 'better-interpolation-error-location' of https://github.com/greedy/nix 2021-12-13 19:20:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f46434f32
Merge pull request #5648 from edolstra/list-iter
Support range-based for loop over list values
2021-11-25 17:13:25 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
b6c8e57056 Support range-based for loop over list values 2021-11-25 16:31:39 +01:00
regnat
c47027f3a1 Fix the error when accessing a forbidden path in pure eval
If we’re in pure eval mode, then tell that in the error message rather
than (wrongly) speaking about restricted mode.

Fix https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/5611
2021-11-25 14:48:01 +01:00
Tom Bereknyei
4318ba2ec5 add real path to allowedPaths 2021-11-20 00:25:36 -05:00
Eelco Dolstra
d7bae52b9d Call functors with both arguments at once
This is not really useful on its own, but it does recover the
'infinite recursion' error message for '{ __functor = x: x; } 1', and
is more efficient in conjunction with #3718.

Fixes #5515.
2021-11-16 22:34:17 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e41cf8511f Don't hang when calling an attrset
Fixes #5565.
2021-11-16 17:44:19 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
40925337a9 Remove maxPrimOpArity 2021-11-04 15:04:07 +01:00