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maintainers/eval-benchmark.py runs a set of evaluation benchmarks (`nix search`, evaluating firefox, and evaluating the plasma6 NixOS test, all against a fixed nixpkgs revision and with `eval-cores = 0`) against a list of upstream Nix tags (built from NixOS/nix), Determinate Nix tags (v*) or nix-src revisions (built from DeterminateSystems/nix-src). It records elapsed time, user/kernel CPU time and max RSS of each run in a CSV file. Runs that are already recorded are skipped, and Nix versions are only built when needed, so the script can be re-run incrementally as new releases appear. maintainers/plot-eval-benchmark.py plots the minimum elapsed time and max RSS per tag for each test. Tags are sorted by version, followed by revisions in the order in which they were benchmarked. Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a CLI that builds selected Nix references, runs evaluation tests, and records resource measurements in CSV. A second script reads that CSV and plots minimum elapsed time and maximum RSS by test and tag. ChangesEvaluation benchmark workflow
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant Main as main()
participant Build as build_nix()
participant Nix
participant Test as run_test()
participant CSV
User->>Main: Provide tags and run options
Main->>CSV: Read completed runs or create header
Main->>Build: Request Nix for an unrecorded run
Build->>Nix: Build selected flake reference
Main->>Test: Run selected evaluation test
Test-->>Main: Return measurements or failure
Main->>CSV: Append successful measurements
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The benchmark scripts are maintainer-only tools. The Firefox benchmark can report misleading timings because it may reuse cached evaluation results, and macOS memory figures would be inflated by a factor of 1,024. Fixing these is straightforward. The issues do not affect Nix itself. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Line 81: Normalize `rusage.ru_maxrss` to KiB before writing the `max-rss-kib`
column: divide the macOS byte value by 1,024 and preserve the Linux value, which
is already in KiB.
- Line 27: Update the Firefox command in the benchmark configuration to include
--no-eval-cache, so repeated Firefox runs perform the intended evaluation rather
than reusing the flake evaluation cache.
- Line 129: After writing each measurement row with csv.writer(...).writerow,
add the corresponding (tag, test, str(run)) key to done so later duplicate tag
or test occurrences skip completed runs.
- Around line 96-102: Update the output-file handling around args.output so an
existing zero-length file is treated like a new output and receives HEADER
before measurements are written. Keep reading existing rows and populating done
for non-empty files.
Review comments at @maintainers/plot-eval-benchmark.py:
- Around line 87-88: Update tag collection in the CSV-reading flow so unique
tags are recorded in CSV row order, rather than derived from times.values()
grouped by test. Keep sorting release tags with version_key, and append
revisions in their first-seen CSV order.
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| "search": ["search", NIXPKGS, "fizzbuzz", "--no-eval-cache"], | ||
| "firefox": ["eval", "--json", f"{NIXPKGS}#firefox", "--read-only"], |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Disable the evaluation cache for the Firefox benchmark.
When the same flake reference is evaluated again, Nix can reuse its flake evaluation cache. The search case disables this cache, but firefox does not. Later Firefox runs can therefore measure a cache lookup instead of the intended evaluation. Add --no-eval-cache to this test. (nix.dev)
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Review comment at @maintainers/eval-benchmark.py at line 27:
Update the Firefox command in the benchmark configuration to include
--no-eval-cache, so repeated Firefox runs perform the intended evaluation rather
than reusing the flake evaluation cache.
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| f"{elapsed:.3f}", | ||
| f"{rusage.ru_utime:.3f}", | ||
| f"{rusage.ru_stime:.3f}", | ||
| str(rusage.ru_maxrss), # KiB on Linux |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Normalize RSS before writing the KiB column.
On macOS, ru_maxrss is in bytes; on Linux, it is in KiB. Writing either value unchanged to max-rss-kib makes macOS measurements appear 1,024 times too large when the plotting script converts that column to MiB. Convert the macOS value to KiB before writing the row. (github.com)
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Review comment at @maintainers/eval-benchmark.py at line 81:
Normalize `rusage.ru_maxrss` to KiB before writing the `max-rss-kib` column:
divide the macOS byte value by 1,024 and preserve the Linux value, which is
already in KiB.
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| with args.output.open(newline="") as f: | ||
| for row in csv.DictReader(f): | ||
| done.add((row["nix-tag"], row["test-name"], row["test-run"])) | ||
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| with args.output.open("w", newline="") as f: | ||
| csv.writer(f).writerow(HEADER) |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Write a header when the output file is empty.
If --output names an existing empty file, exists() takes the read branch and skips HEADER. The first measurement becomes the CSV header, so the plotting script cannot find test-name or nix-tag. Treat a zero-length file as a new output file.
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Review comment at @maintainers/eval-benchmark.py around lines 96 - 102:
Update the output-file handling around args.output so an existing zero-length
file is treated like a new output and receives HEADER before measurements are
written. Keep reading existing rows and populating done for non-empty files.
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| with args.output.open("a", newline="") as f: | ||
| csv.writer(f).writerow([tag, test, run, *measurements]) |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Mark each appended run as completed.
If a tag or --test option occurs twice in one invocation, done still contains only rows loaded at startup. The second occurrence reruns the same run numbers and appends duplicate measurements. Add (tag, test, str(run)) to done after the row is written.
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Review comment at @maintainers/eval-benchmark.py at line 129:
After writing each measurement row with csv.writer(...).writerow, add the
corresponding (tag, test, str(run)) key to done so later duplicate tag or test
occurrences skip completed runs.
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| all_tags = list(dict.fromkeys(tag for per_tag in times.values() for tag in per_tag)) | ||
| tags = sorted([t for t in all_tags if not is_revision(t)], key=version_key) + [t for t in all_tags if is_revision(t)] |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve CSV order for revisions.
Line 87 collects tags by test, not by CSV row. If a revision first appears under a later test, the plot can place it after a revision recorded later under the first test. Collect unique tags while reading the CSV, then sort release tags and retain revisions in their first-seen order. This preserves the stated benchmark order.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @maintainers/plot-eval-benchmark.py around lines 87 - 88:
Update tag collection in the CSV-reading flow so unique tags are recorded in CSV
row order, rather than derived from times.values() grouped by test. Keep sorting
release tags with version_key, and append revisions in their first-seen CSV
order.
After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
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This adds
maintainers/eval-benchmark.py, which benchmarks evaluation (nix search, firefox and the plasma6 NixOS test against a fixed nixpkgs) across upstream Nix tags, Determinate Nix tags and nix-src revisions, recording the results in a CSV file. It's incremental: already recorded runs are skipped and Nix versions are only built when needed.maintainers/plot-eval-benchmark.pyplots the minimum elapsed time and max RSS per release.Example:
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