Mike Gerwitz
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This has been the ultimate goal for the pipeline for some time---the ability to declaratively define the lowering pipeline in a way that is clear, concise, and is correct by definition. The reason that the lowering pipeline required so much boilerplate was because of the robust types involved, which ensures that everything in the pipeline is compatible with one-another---it's not possible to construct a pipeline that will not work. Of course, there is nuance involved in some cases---I didn't want to include the `until` clause, which makes it fail the "obviously correct" criterion, but that can be improved over time. This only abstracts away `load_xmlo` and `parse_package_xml`; next I'll have to evolve the abstraction to support lifetimes for `lower_xmli`'s `AsgTreeToXirf`. That pipeline also ends with a custom sink that really ought to become its own parser, but I don't want to jump down that rabbit hole right now, so we may just support custom sinks for now with the intent of removing it in the future. This has been a long time coming. The ultimate goal is that you should be able to look at the parser pipelines to have a clear, high-level overview of how everything fits together. I'm not generating documentation yet, but that'll help serve as a guide as well. DEV-13162 |
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README.md
TAME in Rust (TAMER)
TAME was written to help tame the complexity of developing comparative insurance rating systems. This project aims to tame the complexity and performance issues of TAME itself. TAMER is therefore more tame than TAME.
TAME was originally written in XSLT. For more information about the
project, see the parent README.md.
Building
To bootstrap from the source repository, run ./bootstrap.
To configure the build for your system, run ./configure. To build, run
make. To run tests, run make check.
You may also invoke cargo directly, which make will do for you using
options provided to configure.
Note that the default development build results in terrible runtime performance! See [#Build Flags][] below for instructions on how to generate a release binary.
Build Flags
The environment variable CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS can be used to provide
additional arguments to cargo build when invoked via make. This can be
provided optionally during configure and can be overridden when invoking
make. For example:
# release build
$ ./configure && make CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS=--release
$ ./configure CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS=--release && make
# dev build
$ ./configure && make
$ ./configure CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS=--release && make CARGO_BUILD_FLAGS=
Hacking
This section contains advice for those developing TAMER.
Running Tests
Developers should be using test-driven development (TDD). make check will
run all necessary tests.
Code Format
Rust provides rustfmt that can automatically format code for you. This
project mandates its use and therefore eliminates personal preference in
code style (for better or worse).
Formatting checks are run during make check and, on failure, will output
the diff that would be applied if you ran make fmt (or make fix); this
will run cargo fmt for you (and will use the binaries configured via
configure).
Since developers should be doing test-driven development (TDD) and therefore
should be running make check frequently, the hope is that frequent
feedback on formatting issues will allow developers to quickly adjust their
habits to avoid triggering formatting errors at all.
If you want to automatically fix formatting errors and then run tests:
$ make fmt check
Benchmarking
Benchmarks serve two purposes: external integration tests (which are subject
to module visibility constraints) and actual benchmarking. To run
benchmarks, invoke make bench.
Note that link-time optimizations (LTO) are performed on the binary for benchmarking so that its performance reflects release builds that will be used in production.
The configure script will automatically detect whether the test feature
is unstable (as it was as of the time of writing) and, if so, will
automatically fall back to invoking nightly (by running cargo +nightly bench).
If you do not have nightly, run you install it via rustup install nightly.