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- While folks are welcome to read through the entire comments, the core
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# Description
This PR drastically improves startup times of Nushell by only parsing a
single submodule of the Standard Library that provides the `banner` and
`pwd` commands. All other Standard Library commands and submodules are
parsed when imported by the user. This cuts startup times by more than
60%.
At the moment, we have stopped adding to `std-lib` because every
addition adds a small amount to the Nushell startup time.
With this change, we should once again be able to allow new
functionality to be added to the Standard Library without it impacting
`nu` startup times.
# User-Facing Changes
* Nushell now starts about 60% faster
* Breaking change: The `dirs` (Shells) aliases will return a warning
message that it will not be auto-loaded in the following release, along
with instructions on how to restore it (and disable the message)
* The `use std <submodule> *` syntax is available for convenience, but
should be avoided in scripts as it parses the entire `std` module and
all other submodules and places it in scope. The correct syntax to
*just* load a submodule is `use std/<submodule> *` (asterisk optional).
The slash is important. This will be documented.
* `use std *` can be used for convenience to load all of the library but
still incurs the full loading-time.
* `std/dirs`: Semi-breaking change. The `dirs` command replaces the
`show` command. This is more in line with the directory-stack
functionality found in other shells. Existing users will not be impacted
by this as the alias (`shells`) remains the same.
* Breaking-change: Technically a breaking change, but probably only
impacts maintainers of `std`. The virtual path for the standard library
has changed. It could previously be imported using its virtual path (and
technically, this would have been the correct way to do it):
```nu
use NU_STDLIB_VIRTUAL_DIR/std
```
The path is now simply `std/`:
```nu
use std
```
All submodules have moved accordingly.
# Timings
Comparisons below were made:
* In a temporary, clean config directory using `$env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME =
(mktemp -d)`.
* `nu` was run with a release build
* `nu` was run one time to generate the default `config.nu` (etc.) files
- Otherwise timings would include the user-prompt
* The shell was exited and then restarted several times to get timing
samples
(Note: Old timings based on 0.97 rather than 0.98, but in the range of
being accurate)
| Scenario | `$nu.startup-time` |
| --- | --- |
| 0.97.2
([aaaab8e](aaaab8e070))
Without this PR | 23ms - 24ms |
| This PR with deprecated commands | 9ms - <11ms |
| This PR after deprecated commands are removed in following release |
8ms - <10ms |
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-std-lib` | 6.1ms to 6.4ms |
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-config-file` | 3.1ms - 3.6ms
|
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-config-file --no-std-lib` |
1ms - 1.5ms |
*These last two timings point to the opportunity for further
optimization (see comment in thread below (will link once I write it).*
# Implementation details for future maintenance
* `use std banner` is a ridiculously deceptive call. That call parses
and imports *all* of `std` into scope. Simply replacing it with `use
std/core *` is essentially what saves ~14-15ms. This *only* imports the
submodule with the `banner` and `pwd` commands.
* From the code-comments, the reason that `NU_STDLIB_VIRTUAL_DIR` was
used as a prefix was so that there wouldn't be an issue if a user had a
`./std/mod.nu` in the current directory. This does **not** appear to be
an issue. After removing the prefix, I tested with both a relative
module as well as one in the `$env.NU_LIB_DIRS` path, and in all cases
the *internal* `std` still took precedence.
* By removing the prefix, users can now `use std` (and variants) without
requiring that it already be parsed and in scope.
* In the next release, we'll stop autoloading the `dirs` (shells)
functionality. While this only costs an additional 1-1.5ms, I think it's
better moved to the `config.nu` where the user can optionally remove it.
The main reason is its use of aliases (which have also caused issues) -
The `n`, `p`, and `g` short-commands are valuable real-estate, and users
may want to map these to something else.
For this release, there's an `deprecated_dirs` module that is still
autoloaded. As with the top-level commands, use of these will give a
deprecation warning with instructions on how to handle going forward.
To help with this, moved the aliases to their own submodule inside the
`dirs` module.
* Also sneaks in a small change where the top-level `dirs` command is
now the replacement for `dirs show`
* Fixed a double-import of `assert` in `dirs.nu`
* The `show_banner` step is replaced with simply `banner` rather than
re-importing it.
* A `virtual_path` may now be referenced with either a forward-slash or
a backward-slash on Windows. This allows `use std/<submodule>` to work
on all platforms.
# Performance side-notes:
* Future parsing and/or IR improvements should improve performance even
further.
* While the existing load time penalty of `std-lib` was not noticeable
on many systems, Nushell runs on a wide-variety of hardware and OS
platforms. Slower platforms will naturally see a bigger jump in
performance here. For users starting multiple Nushell sessions
frequently (e.g., `tmux`, Zellij, `screen`, et. al.) it is recommended
to keep total startup time (including user configuration) under ~250ms.
# Tests + Formatting
* All tests are green
* Updated tests:
- Removed the test that confirmed that `std` was loaded (since we
don't).
- Removed the `shells` test since it is not autoloaded. Main `dirs.nu`
functionality is tested through `stdlib-test`.
- Many tests assumed that the library was fully loaded, because it was
(even though we didn't intend for it to be). Fixed those tests.
- Tests now import only the necessary submodules (e.g., `use
std/assert`, rather than `use std assert`)
- Some tests *thought* they were loading `std/log`, but were doing so
improperly. This was masked by the now-fixed "load-everything-into-scope
bug". Local CI would pass due the `$env.NU_LOG_<...>` variables being
inherited from the calling process, but would fail in the "clean" GitHub
CI environment. These tests have also been fixed.
* Added additional tests for the changes
# After Submitting
Will update the Standard Library doc page
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# Description
Test runner now uses annotations instead of magic function names to pick
up code to run. Additionally skipping tests is now done on annotation
level so skipping and unskipping a test no longer requires changes to
the test code
In order for a function to be picked up by the test runner it needs to
meet following criteria:
* Needs to be private (all exported functions are ignored)
* Needs to contain one of valid annotations (and only the annotation)
directly above the definition, all other comments are ignored
Following are considered valid annotations:
* \# test
* \# test-skip
* \# before-all
* \# before-each
* \# after-each
* \# after-all
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# Description
Test runner now performs following actions in order to run tests:
* Module file is opened
* Public function with random name is added to the source code, this
function calls user-specified private function
* Modified module file is saved under random name in $nu.temp-path
* Modified module file is imported in subprocess, injected function is
called by the test runner
# User-Facing Changes
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* Test functions no longer need to be exported
* test functions no longer need to reside in separate test_ files
* setup and teardown renamed to before-each and after-each respectively
* before-all and after-all functions added that run before all tests in
given module. This matches the behavior of test runners used by other
languages such as JUnit/TestNG or Mocha
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
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Co-authored-by: Kamil <skelly37@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: amtoine <stevan.antoine@gmail.com>
related to the namespace bullet point in
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8450
# Description
this was the last module of the standard library with a broken
namespace, this PR takes care of this.
- `run-tests` has been moved to `std/mod.nu`
- `std/testing.nu` has been moved to `std/assert.nu`
- the namespace has been fixed
- `assert` is now called `main` and used in all the other `std assert`
commands
- for `std assert length` and `std assert str contains`, in order not to
shadow the built-in `length` and `str contains` commands, i've used
`alias "core ..." = ...` to (1) define `foo` in `assert.nu` and (2)
still use the builtin `foo` with `core foo` (replace `foo` by `length`
or `str contains`)
- tests have been fixed accordingly
# User-Facing Changes
one can not use
```
use std "assert equal"
```
anymore because `assert ...` is not exported from `std`.
`std assert` is now a *real* module.
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- ⚫ `toolkit test`
- ⚫ `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
```
$nothing
```
# Notes for reviewers
to test this, i think the easiest is to
- run `toolkit test stdlib` and see all the tests pass
- run `cargo run -- -n` and try `use std assert` => are all the commands
available in scope?
# Description
As in other testing frameworks, the `setup` runs before every test case,
and the `teardown` after that. A context can be created in `setup`,
which will be in the `$in` variable in the test cases, and in the
`teardown`. The `teardown` is called regardless of the test is passed,
skipped, or failed.
For example:
```nushell
use std.nu *
export def setup [] {
log debug "Setup is running"
{msg: "This is the context"}
}
export def teardown [] {
log debug $"Teardown is running. Context: ($in)"
}
export def test_assert_pass [] {
log debug $"Assert is running. Context: ($in)"
}
export def test_assert_skip [] {
log debug $"Assert is running. Context: ($in)"
assert skip
}
export def test_assert_fail_skipped_by_default [] {
log debug $"Assert is running. Context: ($in)"
assert false
}
```
# After Submitting
I'll update the documentation.
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Co-authored-by: Mate Farkas <Mate.Farkas@oneidentity.com>
