salsa/README.md
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# salsa
*A generic framework for on-demand, incrementalized computation.*
## Obligatory warning
Very much a WORK IN PROGRESS at this point. Not really ready for use.
## Credits
This system is heavily inspired by adapton, glimmer, and rustc's query
system. So credit goes to Eduard-Mihai Burtescu, Matthew Hammer,
Yehuda Katz, and Michael Woerister.
## Goals
It tries to hit a few goals:
- No need for a base crate that declares the "complete set of queries"
- Each query can define its own storage and doesn't have to be memoized
- Each module only has to know about the queries that it depends on
and that it provides (but no others)
- Compiles to fast code, with no allocation, dynamic dispatch, etc on
the "memoized hit" fast path
- Can recover from cycles gracefully (though I didn't really show
that)
- Should support arenas and other lifetime-based things without requiring
lifetimes everywhere when you're not using them (untested)
## Example
There is a working `hello_world` example which is probably the best documentation.
More to come when I expand out a few more patterns.