The underlying issue is that debugger code path was
calling PosTable::operator[] in each eval method.
This has become incredibly expensive since 5d9fdab3de.
While we are it it, I've reworked the code to
not use std::shared_ptr where it really isn't necessary.
As I've documented in previous commits, this is actually
more a workaround for recursive header dependencies now
and is only necessary in `error.hh` code.
Some ad-hoc benchmarking:
After this commit:
```
Benchmark 1: nix eval nixpkgs#hello --impure --ignore-try --no-eval-cache --debugger
Time (mean ± σ): 784.2 ms ± 7.1 ms [User: 561.4 ms, System: 147.7 ms]
Range (min … max): 773.5 ms … 792.6 ms 10 runs
```
On master 3604c7c51:
```
Benchmark 1: nix eval nixpkgs#hello --impure --ignore-try --no-eval-cache --debugger
Time (mean ± σ): 22.914 s ± 0.178 s [User: 18.524 s, System: 4.151 s]
Range (min … max): 22.738 s … 23.290 s 10 runs
```
(cherry picked from commit adbd08399c)
All of this code doesn't actually depend on anything from
libexpr. Because Pos is so tigtly coupled with Error, it
makes sense to have in the same library.
(cherry picked from commit a53b184e63)
E.g. in a derivation attribute `foo = ./bar`, if ./bar is a symlink,
we should copy the symlink to the store, not its target. This restores
the behaviour of Nix <= 2.19.
(cherry picked from commit 26b87e78b5)
# Conflicts:
# tests/functional/meson.build
This does not include any automation for the release branch, but
is based on the configuration of https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/12349
pre-commit run -a nixfmt-rfc-style
My SNAFU was that I assumed that all the `Value *`s we put in
`attrsSeen` are already reachable (which they are), but I forgot about
the `elems` pointer in `ListBuilder`.
Fixes#11547.
(cherry picked from commit 0c2fdd2f3c)
downloadTarball() is used by `-I foo=<url>` etc. fetchToStore() needs
the accessor to have a fingerprint to enable caching.
Fixes#11271.
(cherry picked from commit 9f6ee93f48)
* docs: unify documentation on search paths
- put all the information on search path semantics into `builtins.findFile`
- put all the information on determining the value of `builtins.nixPath` into the
`nix-path` setting
maybe `builtins.nixPath` is a better place for this, but those bits
can still be moved around now that it's all next to each other.
- link to the syntax page for lookup paths from all places that are
concerned with it
- add or clarify examples
- add a test verifying a claim from documentation
* manual: Contributing -> Development, Hacking -> Building
what's currently called "hacking" are really instructions for setting up
a development environment and compiling from source. we have
a contribution guide in the repo (which rightly focuses on GitHub
workflows), and the material in the manual is more about working
on the code itself.
since we'd otherwise have three headings that amount to "Building Nix",
this change also moves the "classic Nix" instructions to the top.
we may want to reorganise this in the future, and bring
contributor-oriented information closer to the code, but for now let's
stick to more accurate names to ease navigation.
* fix NIX_PATH overriding
- test restricted evaluation
- test precedence for setting the search path
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>
Co-authored-by: John Ericson <git@JohnEricson.me>
This is in accordance with ARM's naming convention.
"Low" is confusing, because it could refer to either the cold end
of the stack as an abstract data type, or a low address.
These are different places, because the stack grows down through
the address space.
