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lux/flake.nix
Brandon Lucas 49ab70829a feat: add comprehensive benchmark suite with flake commands
- Add nix flake commands: bench, bench-poop, bench-quick
- Add hyperfine and poop to devShell
- Document benchmark results with hyperfine/poop output
- Explain why Lux matches C (gcc's recursion optimization)
- Add HTTP server benchmark files (C, Rust, Zig)
- Add Zig versions of all benchmarks

Key findings:
- Lux (compiled): 28.1ms - fastest
- C (gcc -O3): 29.0ms - 1.03x slower
- Rust: 41.2ms - 1.47x slower
- Zig: 47.0ms - 1.67x slower

The performance comes from gcc's aggressive recursion-to-loop
transformation, which LLVM (Rust/Zig) doesn't perform as aggressively.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-16 05:53:10 -05:00

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Nix

{
description = "Lux - A functional programming language with first-class effects";
inputs = {
nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
rust-overlay.url = "github:oxalica/rust-overlay";
flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
};
outputs = { self, nixpkgs, rust-overlay, flake-utils }:
flake-utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (system:
let
overlays = [ (import rust-overlay) ];
pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system overlays; };
rustToolchain = pkgs.rust-bin.stable.latest.default.override {
extensions = [ "rust-src" "rust-analyzer" ];
};
in
{
devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {
buildInputs = with pkgs; [
rustToolchain
cargo-watch
cargo-edit
pkg-config
openssl
# Benchmark tools
hyperfine
poop
];
RUST_BACKTRACE = "1";
RUST_SRC_PATH = "${rustToolchain}/lib/rustlib/src/rust/library";
shellHook = ''
# Build and add lux to PATH
if [ ! -f target/release/lux ] || [ Cargo.toml -nt target/release/lux ] || [ -n "$(find src -name '*.rs' -newer target/release/lux 2>/dev/null | head -1)" ]; then
echo "Building lux..."
cargo build --release
fi
export PATH="$PWD/target/release:$PATH"
printf "\n"
printf " \033[1;35m \033[0m\n"
printf " \033[1;35m \033[0m\n"
printf " \033[1;35m \033[0m v0.1.0\n"
printf "\n"
printf " Functional language with first-class effects\n"
printf "\n"
printf " \033[1mCommands:\033[0m\n"
printf " lux Start the REPL\n"
printf " lux \033[3m<file.lux>\033[0m Run a file\n"
printf " lux compile \033[3m<file.lux>\033[0m JIT compile and run\n"
printf "\n"
printf " \033[1mDevelopment:\033[0m\n"
printf " cargo build Build the compiler\n"
printf " cargo test Run tests\n"
printf "\n"
'';
};
packages.default = pkgs.rustPlatform.buildRustPackage {
pname = "lux";
version = "0.1.0";
src = ./.;
cargoLock.lockFile = ./Cargo.lock;
nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.pkg-config ];
buildInputs = [ pkgs.openssl ];
doCheck = false;
};
# Benchmark scripts
apps = {
# Run hyperfine benchmark comparison
bench = {
type = "app";
program = toString (pkgs.writeShellScript "lux-bench" ''
set -e
echo "=== Lux Performance Benchmarks ==="
echo ""
# Build Lux
echo "Building Lux..."
cd ${self}
${pkgs.cargo}/bin/cargo build --release 2>/dev/null
# Compile benchmarks
echo "Compiling benchmark binaries..."
./target/release/lux compile benchmarks/fib.lux -o /tmp/fib_lux 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.gcc}/bin/gcc -O3 benchmarks/fib.c -o /tmp/fib_c 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.rustc}/bin/rustc -C opt-level=3 -C lto benchmarks/fib.rs -o /tmp/fib_rust 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.zig}/bin/zig build-exe benchmarks/fib.zig -O ReleaseFast -femit-bin=/tmp/fib_zig 2>/dev/null
echo ""
echo "Running hyperfine benchmark..."
echo ""
${pkgs.hyperfine}/bin/hyperfine --warmup 3 --runs 10 \
--export-markdown /tmp/bench_results.md \
'/tmp/fib_lux' \
'/tmp/fib_c' \
'/tmp/fib_rust' \
'/tmp/fib_zig'
echo ""
echo "Results saved to /tmp/bench_results.md"
'');
};
# Run poop benchmark for detailed CPU metrics
bench-poop = {
type = "app";
program = toString (pkgs.writeShellScript "lux-bench-poop" ''
set -e
echo "=== Lux Performance Benchmarks (poop) ==="
echo ""
# Build Lux
echo "Building Lux..."
cd ${self}
${pkgs.cargo}/bin/cargo build --release 2>/dev/null
# Compile benchmarks
echo "Compiling benchmark binaries..."
./target/release/lux compile benchmarks/fib.lux -o /tmp/fib_lux 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.gcc}/bin/gcc -O3 benchmarks/fib.c -o /tmp/fib_c 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.rustc}/bin/rustc -C opt-level=3 -C lto benchmarks/fib.rs -o /tmp/fib_rust 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.zig}/bin/zig build-exe benchmarks/fib.zig -O ReleaseFast -femit-bin=/tmp/fib_zig 2>/dev/null
echo ""
echo "Running poop benchmark (detailed CPU metrics)..."
echo ""
${pkgs.poop}/bin/poop '/tmp/fib_c' '/tmp/fib_lux' '/tmp/fib_rust' '/tmp/fib_zig'
'');
};
# Quick benchmark (just Lux vs C)
bench-quick = {
type = "app";
program = toString (pkgs.writeShellScript "lux-bench-quick" ''
set -e
echo "=== Quick Lux vs C Benchmark ==="
echo ""
cd ${self}
${pkgs.cargo}/bin/cargo build --release 2>/dev/null
./target/release/lux compile benchmarks/fib.lux -o /tmp/fib_lux 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.gcc}/bin/gcc -O3 benchmarks/fib.c -o /tmp/fib_c 2>/dev/null
${pkgs.hyperfine}/bin/hyperfine --warmup 3 '/tmp/fib_lux' '/tmp/fib_c'
'');
};
};
}
);
}