Performance, modularity, extensibility. In that order.
Every design decision in vx is settled by three drivers in a fixed order, and nine principles that follow from them. This is the list, with what each one has already cost and what it has bought.
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Explicit over magical: why vx never guesses your inputs
Auto-inferred inputs are the most requested feature vx will not build. A traced read set describes what a task read once, on one machine, after it ran. A cache key has to be right before the task runs, everywhere.