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feat: Add `std.goFormat` built-in #720

Closed julienduchesne closed 1 year ago

julienduchesne commented 1 year ago

I've identified that the main bottleneck in most of our jsonnet is actually string formatting It's one of the few things which haven't been ported from C-jsonnet

Here's a benchmark from the file I'm adding here and the equivalent jsonnet format:

goFormat:

julienduchesne@Juliens-MacBook-Pro go-jsonnet % time cat builtin-benchmarks/goFormat.jsonnet | ./jsonnet - | wc -l
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cat builtin-benchmarks/goFormat.jsonnet  0.00s user 0.00s system 54% cpu 0.011 total
./jsonnet -  0.12s user 0.02s system 142% cpu 0.098 total
wc -l  0.00s user 0.00s system 5% cpu 0.098 total

Jsonnet:

julienduchesne@Juliens-MacBook-Pro go-jsonnet % time cat builtin-benchmarks/jsonnetFormat.jsonnet | ./jsonnet - | wc -l
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cat builtin-benchmarks/jsonnetFormat.jsonnet  0.00s user 0.00s system 66% cpu 0.007 total
./jsonnet -  9.43s user 0.41s system 145% cpu 6.773 total
wc -l  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 6.772 total

I also looked into replicating the std.format function into go code but it seems like a monumental task, there are so many edge cases. So now, there are tons of differences between the C-style formatting and Go-style formatting so it's not a replacement but, could we have both? Go-style formatting is pretty common in the same places where jsonnet is used so it wouldn't be so out-of-place

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CertainLach commented 1 year ago

I also looked into replicating the std.format function into go code but it seems like a monumental task, there are so many edge cases.

It is not actually that hard, https://github.com/CertainLach/jrsonnet/blob/master/crates/jrsonnet-evaluator/src/stdlib/format.rs

If going for the go-native string formatting instead, then something should be done against T and the p specifiers at least, since they wouldn't be pure, and will break the abstraction.

If there is a need to add another templating util, why not golang's text/template instead? It is familiar to devops too, and there won't be two templating functions that behave similarly, but not in quite the same way