Seed all primitives into vm_globals as NativeFn values at init.
CALL_PRIM now looks up vm.globals only (not the separate primitives
table). This means OP_DEFINE and registerNative naturally override
primitives — browser.sx's (define set-cookie ...) now takes effect.
The primitives Hashtbl remains for the compiler's primitive? predicate
but has no runtime dispatch role.
Tests: 2435 pass / 64 fail (pre-existing), vs 1718/771 baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: sx_primitives.ml registered "effect" as a native no-op (for SSR).
The bytecode compiler's (primitive? "effect") returned true, so it emitted
OP_CALL_PRIM instead of OP_GLOBAL_GET + OP_CALL. The VM's CALL_PRIM handler
found the native Nil-returning stub and never called the real effect function
from core-signals.sx.
Fix: Remove effect and register-in-scope from the primitives table. The server
overrides them via env_bind in sx_server.ml (after compilation), which doesn't
affect primitive? checks.
Also: VM CALL_PRIM now falls back to cek_call for non-NativeFn values (safety
net for any other functions that get misclassified).
15/15 source mode, 15/15 bytecode mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JIT compiler:
- Fix jit_compile_lambda: resolve `compile` via symbol lookup in env
instead of embedding VmClosure in AST (CEK dispatches differently)
- Register eval-defcomp/eval-defisland/eval-defmacro runtime helpers
in browser kernel for bytecoded defcomp forms
- Disable broken .sxbc.json path (missing arity in nested code blocks),
use .sxbc text format only
- Mark JIT-failed closures as sentinel to stop retrying
CSSX in browser:
- Add cssx.sx symlink + cssx.sxbc to browser web stack
- Add flush-cssx! to orchestration.sx post-swap for SPA nav
- Add cssx.sx to compile-modules.js and mcp_tree.ml bytecode lists
SPA navigation:
- Fix double-fetch: check e.defaultPrevented in click delegation
(bind-event already handled the click)
- Fix layout destruction: change nav links from outerHTML to innerHTML
swap (outerHTML destroyed #main-panel when response lacked it)
- Guard JS popstate handler when SX engine is booted
- Rename sx-platform.js → sx-platform-2.js to bust immutable cache
Playwright tests:
- Add trackErrors() helper to all test specs
- Add SPA DOM comparison test (SPA nav vs fresh load)
- Add single-fetch + no-duplicate-elements test
- Improve MCP tool output: show failure details and error messages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: _env_bind_hook mirrored ALL env_bind calls (including
lambda parameter bindings) to the shared VM globals table. Factory
functions like make-page-fn that return closures capturing different
values for the same param names (default-name, prefix, suffix) would
have the last call's values overwrite all previous closures' captured
state in globals. OP_GLOBAL_GET reads globals first, so all closures
returned the last factory call's values.
Fix: only sync root-env bindings (parent=None) to VM globals. Lambda
parameter bindings stay in their local env, found via vm_closure_env
fallback in OP_GLOBAL_GET.
Also in this commit:
- OP_CLOSURE propagates parent vm_closure_env to child closures
- Remove JIT globals injection (closure vars found via env chain)
- sx_server.ml: SX-Request header → returns text/sx (aser only)
- sx_server.ml: diagnostic endpoint GET /sx/_debug/{env,eval,route}
- sx_server.ml: page helper stubs for deep page rendering
- sx_server.ml: skip client-libs/ dir (browser-only definitions)
- adapter-html.sx: unknown components → HTML comment (not error)
- sx-platform.js: .sxbc fallback loader for bytecode modules
- Delete sx_http.ml (standalone HTTP server, unused)
- Delete stale .sxbc.json files (arity=0 bug, replaced by .sxbc)
- 7 new closure isolation tests in test-closure-isolation.sx
- mcp_tree.ml: emit arity + upvalue-count in .sxbc.json output
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Browser kernel:
- Add `parse` native fn (matches server: unwrap single, list for multiple)
- Restore env==global_env guard on _env_bind_hook (let bindings must not
leak to _vm_globals — caused JIT CSSX "Not callable: nil" errors)
- Add _env_bind_hook call in env_set_id so set! mutations sync to VM globals
- Fire _vm_global_set_hook from OP_DEFINE so VM defines sync back to CEK env
CEK evaluator:
- Replace recursive cek_run with iterative while loop using sx_truthy
(previous attempt used strict Bool true matching, broke in wasm_of_ocaml)
- Remove dead cek_run_iterative function
Web modules:
- Remove find-matching-route and parse-route-pattern stubs from
boot-helpers.sx that shadowed real implementations from router.sx
- Sync boot-helpers.sx to dist/static dirs for bytecode compilation
Platform (sx-platform.js):
- Set data-sx-ready attribute after boot completes (was only in boot-init
which sx-platform.js doesn't call — it steps through boot manually)
- Add document-level click delegation for a[sx-get] links as workaround
for bytecoded bind-event not attaching per-element listeners (VM closure
issue under investigation — bind-event runs but dom-add-listener calls
don't result in addEventListener)
Tests:
- New test_kernel.js: 24 tests covering env sync, parse, route matching,
host FFI/preventDefault, deep recursion
- New navigation test: "sx-get link fetches SX not HTML and preserves layout"
(currently catches layout breakage after SPA swap — known issue)
Known remaining issues:
- JIT CSSX failures: closure-captured variables resolve to nil in VM bytecode
- SPA content swap via execute-request breaks page layout
- Bytecoded bind-event doesn't attach per-element addEventListener (root
cause unknown — when listen-target guard appears to block despite element
being valid)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The optimization to call the compiler through VM directly (instead
of CEK) when it's JIT-compiled was producing incorrect bytecode for
all subsequently compiled functions, causing "Expected number, got
symbol" errors across render-to-html, parse-loop, etc.
Revert to always using CEK for compilation. The compiler runs via
CEK which is slower but produces correct bytecode. JIT-compiled
USER functions still run at VM speed.
1166 passed, 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removing injection broke GLOBAL_GET for all JIT-compiled functions,
not just mutable closures. Top-level functions like render-to-html
need their referenced bindings in the VM globals table.
Restore the original injection (only injects values not already in
globals). Mutable closure vars (parser's pos etc.) still get stale
snapshots and fall back to CEK — that's the known limitation to fix
with cell-based boxing later.
1166 passed, 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: jit_compile_lambda copied closure variable VALUES into the
VM globals table. GLOBAL_GET found these stale snapshots instead of
falling through to vm_closure_env which has live bindings. When set!
mutated a variable (like parser's pos), the JIT code read the old
snapshot value.
Fix: don't inject closure bindings into globals at all. GLOBAL_GET
already has a fallback path that walks vm_closure_env — this sees
live env bindings that are updated by set!. No new opcodes needed.
This should fix JIT for parse-loop, skip-ws, read-expr and other
closure functions that use mutable variables.
1166 passed, 0 failed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
jit_compile_lambda now uses the live globals table directly instead
of Hashtbl.copy. Closure bindings that aren't already in globals are
injected into the live table. This ensures GLOBAL_GET always sees
the latest define values.
Previously: Hashtbl.copy created a stale snapshot. Functions defined
after the copy (like cssx-process-token from cssx.sx) resolved to nil
in JIT-compiled closures.
JIT error test now passes — 0 CSSX errors during navigation.
7/8 navigation tests pass. Remaining: back button content update.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JIT runtime errors now log once per function name via _jit_warned
hashtable, then stay quiet for that function. No more silent swallowing
(which hid real errors) or per-call flooding (which spammed thousands
of lines and blocked the server).
VM-level fallbacks (inside JIT-compiled code calling other JIT code)
are silent — dedup happens at the hook level.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JIT runtime errors now silently fall back to CEK without disabling the
compiled bytecode or logging. This prevents render-to-html from being
permanently disabled when one page has an unresolved symbol (e.g. the
homepage stepper's <home).
Load spec/signals.sx and web/engine.sx for reactive primitives.
Skip test files and non-rendering directories (tests/, plans/, essays/).
Performance with JIT active (warm, single process, 2MB RSS):
- Aser (component expansion): 21-87ms — faster than Quart baseline
- SSR + shell: variable due to homepage <home fallback issue
- Geography total: ~500ms when JIT stays active
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reverse hook syncs VM GLOBAL_SET mutations back to global_env so CEK reads
see JIT-written values. Isomorphic nav: store primitives, event-bridge,
client? predicate. Browser JS and bytecode rebuilt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
List.find returns the element that matched, but SX some should return
the callback's truthy return value. This caused get-verb-info to return
"get" (the verb string) instead of the {method, url} dict.
Also added _active_vm tracking to VM for future HO primitive optimization,
and reverted get-verb-info to use some (no longer needs for-each workaround).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sx-get links were doing full page refreshes because click handlers
never attached. Root causes: VM frame management bug, missing primitives,
CEK/VM type dispatch mismatch, and silent error swallowing.
Fixes:
- VM frame exhaustion: frames <- [] now properly pops to rest_frames
- length primitive: add alias for len in OCaml primitives
- call_sx_fn: use sx_call directly instead of eval_expr (CEK checks
for type "lambda" but VmClosure reports "function")
- Boot error surfacing: Sx.init() now has try/catch + failure summary
- Callback error surfacing: catch-all handler for non-Eval_error exceptions
- Silent JIT failures: log before CEK fallback instead of swallowing
- vm→env sync: loadModule now calls sync_vm_to_env()
- sx_build_bytecode MCP tool added for bytecode compilation
Tests: 50 new tests across test-vm.sx and test-vm-primitives.sx covering
nested VM calls, frame integrity, CEK bridge, primitive availability,
cross-module symbol resolution, and callback dispatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the VM called a JIT-compiled lambda, it passed vm.globals
(the caller's global env) instead of cl.vm_env_ref (the closure's
captured env that was merged at compile time). Closure-captured
variables like code-tokens from island let/letrec scopes were
invisible at runtime, causing "Undefined symbol" errors that
cascaded to disable render-to-html globally.
Fix: call_closure uses cl.vm_env_ref at both call sites (cached
bytecode and fresh compilation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three bugs broke island SSR rendering of the home stepper widget:
1. Inline VM opcodes (OP_ADD..OP_DEC) broke JIT-compiled functions.
The compiler emitted single-byte opcodes for first/rest/len/= etc.
that produced wrong results in complex recursive code (sx-parse
returned nil, split-tag produced 1 step instead of 16). Reverted
compiler to use CALL_PRIM for all primitives. VM opcode handlers
kept for future use.
2. Named let (let loop ((x init)) body) had no compiler support —
silently produced broken bytecode. Added desugaring to letrec.
3. URL-encoded cookie values not decoded server-side. Client set-cookie
uses encodeURIComponent but Werkzeug doesn't decode cookie values.
Added unquote() in bridge cookie injection.
Also: call-lambda used eval_expr which copies Dict values (signals),
breaking mutations through aser lambda calls. Switched to cek_call.
Also: stepper preview now includes ~cssx/tw spreads for SSR styling.
Tests: 1317 JS, 1114 OCaml, 26 integration (2 pre-existing failures)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
16 new opcodes (160-175) bypass the CALL_PRIM hashtable lookup for
the most frequently called primitives:
Arithmetic: OP_ADD, OP_SUB, OP_MUL, OP_DIV, OP_INC, OP_DEC, OP_NEG
Comparison: OP_EQ, OP_LT, OP_GT, OP_NOT
Collection: OP_LEN, OP_FIRST, OP_REST, OP_NTH, OP_CONS
The compiler (compiler.sx) recognizes these names at compile time and
emits the inline opcode instead of CALL_PRIM. The opcode is self-
contained — no constant pool index, no argc byte. Each primitive is
a single byte in the bytecode stream.
Implementation in all three VMs:
- OCaml (sx_vm.ml): direct pattern match, no allocation
- SX spec (vm.sx): delegates to existing primitives
- JS (transpiled): same as SX spec
66 new tests in spec/tests/vm-inline.sx covering arithmetic, comparison,
collection ops, composition, and edge cases.
Tests: 1314 JS (full), 1114 OCaml, 32 Playwright
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Route all rendering through OCaml bridge — render_to_html no longer uses
Python async_eval. Fix register_components to parse &key params and &rest
children from defcomp forms. Remove all dead sx_ref.py imports.
Epoch protocol (prevents pipe desync):
- Every command prefixed with (epoch N), all responses tagged with epoch
- Both sides discard stale-epoch messages — desync structurally impossible
- OCaml main loop discards stale io-responses between commands
Consolidate scope primitives into sx_scope.ml:
- Single source of truth for scope-push!/pop!/peek, collect!/collected,
emit!/emitted, context, and 12 other scope operations
- Removes duplicate registrations from sx_server.ml (including bugs where
scope-emit! and clear-collected! were registered twice with different impls)
- Bind scope prims into env so JIT VM finds them via OP_GLOBAL_GET
JIT VM fixes:
- Trampoline thunks before passing args to CALL_PRIM
- as_list resolves thunks via _sx_trampoline_fn
- len handles all value types (Bool, Number, RawHTML, SxExpr, Spread, etc.)
Other fixes:
- ~cssx/tw signature: (tokens) → (&key tokens) to match callers
- Minimal Python evaluator in html.py for sync sx() Jinja function
- Python scope primitive stubs (thread-local) for non-OCaml paths
- Reader macro resolution via OcamlSync instead of sx_ref.py
Tests: 1114 OCaml, 1078 JS, 35 Python regression, 6/6 Playwright SSR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
JIT allowlist (sx_server.ml):
- Replace try-every-lambda strategy with StringSet allowlist. Only
functions in the list get JIT compiled (compiler, parser, pure transforms).
Render functions that need dynamic scope skip JIT entirely — no retry
overhead, no silent fallbacks.
- Add (jit-allow name) command for dynamic expansion from Python bridge.
- JIT failures log once with "[jit] DISABLED fn — reason" then go silent.
Standalone --test mode (sx_server.ml):
- New --test flag loads full env (spec + adapters + compiler + signals),
supports --eval and --load flags. Quick kernel testing without Docker.
Example: dune exec bin/sx_server.exe -- --test --eval '(len HTML_TAGS)'
Integration tests (integration_tests.ml):
- New binary exercising the full rendering pipeline: loads spec + adapters
into a server-like env, renders HTML via both native and SX adapter paths.
- 26 tests: HTML tags, special forms (when/if/let), letrec with side
effects, component rendering, eval-expr with HTML tag functions.
- Would have caught the "Undefined symbol: div/lake/init" issues from
the previous commit immediately without Docker.
VM cleanup (sx_vm.ml):
- Remove temporary debug logging (insn counter, call_closure counter,
VmClosure depth tracking) added during debugging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Core VM changes:
- Add VmClosure value variant — inner closures created by OP_CLOSURE are
first-class VM values, not NativeFn wrappers around call_closure
- Convert `run` from recursive to while-loop — zero OCaml stack growth,
true TCO for VmClosure tail calls
- vm_call handles VmClosure by pushing frame on current VM (no new VM
allocation per call)
- Forward ref _vm_call_closure_ref for cross-boundary calls (CEK/primitives)
Compiler (spec/compiler.sx):
- Define hoisting in compile-begin: pre-allocate local slots for all
define forms before compiling any values. Fixes forward references
between inner functions (e.g. read-expr referencing skip-ws in sx-parse)
- scope-define-local made idempotent (skip if slot already exists)
Server (sx_server.ml):
- JIT fail-once sentinel: mark l_compiled as failed after first VM runtime
error. Eliminates thousands of retry attempts per page render.
- HTML tag bindings: register all HTML tags as pass-through NativeFns so
eval-expr can handle (div ...) etc. in island component bodies.
- Log VM FAIL errors with function name before disabling JIT.
SSR fixes:
- adapter-html.sx letrec handler: evaluate bindings in proper letrec scope
(pre-bind nil, then evaluate), render body with render-to-html instead of
eval-expr. Fixes island SSR for components using letrec.
- Add `init` primitive to OCaml kernel (all-but-last of list).
- VmClosure handling in sx_runtime.ml sx_call dispatch.
Tests: 971/971 OCaml (+19 new), 0 failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
vm_closure now stores the original closure env (vm_closure_env).
GLOBAL_GET walks the closure env chain when the variable isn't in
vm.globals. GLOBAL_SET writes to the correct env in the chain.
This enables JIT compilation of all named functions regardless of
closure depth. No more closure skip check needed.
Pre-compile time back to ~7s (was 37s with closure skip).
Note: sx-parse sibling list parsing still has issues — the root
cause is in how the JIT-compiled letrec + OP_CLOSURE interacts
with the upvalue cell mechanism. Investigation ongoing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause: sf-letrec returns a thunk (for TCO) but the CEK dispatch
wrapped it as a value without evaluating. The thunk leaked as the
return value of letrec expressions, breaking sx-parse and any function
using letrec.
Fix: step-sf-letrec unwraps the thunk into a CEK state, so the last
letrec body expression is properly evaluated by the CEK machine.
Also:
- compile-letrec: two-phase (nil-init then assign) for mutual recursion
- Skip JIT for inner functions (closure.bindings != globals) in both
vm_call and JIT hook
- vm-reset-fn for sx-parse removed (no longer needed)
- Parser regression test: letrec with mutable pos + recursive sublists
Test results: JS 943/17, OCaml 955/0, Python 747/0
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The closure merging in jit_compile_lambda (copying globals + injecting
closure bindings into vm_env_ref) produces incorrect variable resolution
for inner functions. Symptoms: sx-parse's read-list-loop mishandles
closing parens (siblings become children), parser produces wrong ASTs.
Fix: vm_call skips JIT compilation for lambdas with non-empty closures.
These run on CEK which handles closures correctly. Top-level defines
(empty closure) are still JIT-compiled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix infinite recursion in VM JIT: restore sentinel pre-mark in vm_call
and pre-compile loop so recursive compiler functions don't trigger
unbounded compilation cascades. Runtime VM errors fall back to CEK;
compile errors surface visibly (not silently swallowed).
New: compile-quasiquote emits inline code instead of delegating to
qq-expand-runtime. Closure-captured variables merged into VM globals
so compiled closures resolve outer bindings via GLOBAL_GET.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The second get implementation in sx_runtime.ml (used by transpiled code)
was still raising on type mismatches. Now returns nil like sx_primitives.
Remove per-call [vm-call-closure] FAIL logging — the jit-hook already
logs failures at the right level. Reduces 70K log lines to ~5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- get primitive returns nil for type mismatches (list+string) instead
of raising — matches JS/Python behavior, fixes find-nav-match errors
- scope-peek, collect!, collected, clear-collected! registered as real
primitives in sx_primitives table (not just env bindings) so the CEK
step-sf-context can find them via get-primitive
- step-sf-context checks scope-peek hashtable BEFORE walking CEK
continuation — bridges aser's scope-push!/pop! with CEK's context
- context, emit!, emitted added to SPECIAL_FORM_NAMES and handled in
aser-special (scope operations in aser rendering mode)
- sx-context NativeFn for VM-compiled code paths
- VM execution errors no longer mark functions as permanently failed —
bytecode is correct, errors are from runtime data
- kbd, samp, var added to HTML_TAGS + sx-browser.js rebuilt
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace AOT adapter compilation with lazy JIT — each named lambda is
compiled to VM bytecode on first call, cached in l_compiled field for
subsequent calls. Compilation failures fall back to CEK gracefully.
VM types (vm_code, vm_upvalue_cell, vm_closure) moved to sx_types.ml
mutual recursion block. Lambda and Component records gain mutable
l_compiled/c_compiled cache fields. jit_compile_lambda in sx_vm.ml
wraps body as (fn (params) body), invokes spec/compiler.sx via CEK,
extracts inner closure from OP_CLOSURE constant.
JIT hooks in both paths:
- vm_call: Lambda calls from compiled VM code
- continue_with_call: Lambda calls from CEK step loop (injected by
bootstrap.py post-processing)
Pre-mark sentinel prevents re-entrancy (compile function itself was
hanging when JIT'd mid-compilation). VM execution errors caught and
fall back to CEK with sentinel marking.
Also: add kbd/samp/var to HTML_TAGS, rebuild sx-browser.js, add page
URL to sx-page-full-py timing log.
Performance: first page 28s (JIT compiles 17 functions), subsequent
pages 0.31s home / 0.71s wittgenstein (was 2.3s). All 1945 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root cause of for-each failure: CALL_PRIM checked globals before
primitives. Globals had ho_via_cek wrappers that routed for-each
through the CEK machine — which couldn't call VM closures correctly.
Fix: check Sx_primitives.get_primitive FIRST (native call_any that
handles NativeFn directly), fall back to globals for env-specific
bindings like set-render-active!.
Result: (for-each (fn (x) (+ x 1)) (list 1 2 3)) on VM → 42 ✓
Full adapter aser chain executing:
aser → aser-list → aser-call → for-each callback
Fails at UPVALUE_GET idx=6 (have 6) — compiler upvalue count
off by one. Next fix: compiler scope analysis.
Also: floor(0)=-1 bug found and fixed (was round(x-0.5), now
uses OCaml's native floor). This was causing all compile failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
aser-slot now routes through the VM when adapter is compiled:
- compile_adapter: compiles each define body, extracts inner code
from OP_CLOSURE wrapper, stores as NativeFn in separate globals
- vm_adapter_globals: isolated from kernel env (no cross-contamination)
- aser-slot checks vm_adapter_globals, calls VM aser directly
Status: 2/12 adapter functions compile and run on VM. 6 fail during
OCaml-side compilation with "index out of bounds" — likely from
set-nth! silent failure on ListRef during bytecode jump patching.
Debug output shows outer code structure is correct (4 bytes, 1 const).
Inner code_from_value conversion needs fixing for nested closures.
Also: vm-compile-adapter command inside _ensure_components lock
(fixes pipe desync from concurrent requests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
adapter-sx.sx compiles to 25 code objects (4044 bytes bytecode).
vm-load-module loads it. But replacing Lambda values in env.bindings
with NativeFn wrappers breaks the CEK machine for non-aser functions.
Root cause: shared env.bindings between CEK and VM. The CEK needs
Lambda values (for closure merging). The VM needs NativeFn wrappers.
Both can't coexist in the same env.
Fix needed: VM adapter gets its own globals table (with compiled
closures). The aser-slot command routes directly to the VM with
its own globals, not through the CEK with shared env.
Disabled vm-load-module. Pages render correctly via CEK.
Also: OP_CALL_PRIM now logs primitive name + argc in error messages
for easier debugging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes:
1. HO forms (map/filter/for-each/reduce): registered as Python
primitives so compiler emits OP_CALL_PRIM (direct dispatch to
OCaml primitive) instead of OP_CALL (which routed through CEK
HO special forms and failed on NativeFn closure args).
2. Mutable closures: locals captured by closures now share an
upvalue_cell. OP_LOCAL_GET/SET check frame.local_cells first —
if the slot has a shared cell, read/write through it. OP_CLOSURE
creates or reuses cells for is_local=1 captures. Both parent
and closure see the same mutations.
Frame type extended with local_cells hashtable for captured slots.
40/40 tests pass:
- 12 compiler output tests
- 18 VM execution tests (arithmetic, control flow, closures,
nested let, higher-order, cond, string ops)
- 10 auto-compile pattern tests (recursive, map, filter,
for-each, mutable closures, multiple closures, type dispatch)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
End-to-end pipeline working:
Python compiler.sx → bytecode → OCaml VM → result
Verified: (+ (* 3 4) 2) → 14 ✓
(+ 0 1 2 ... 49) → 1225 ✓
Benchmark (500 iterations, 50 additions each):
CEK machine: 327ms
Bytecode VM: 145ms
Speedup: 2.2x
VM handles: constants, local variables, global variables,
primitive calls, jumps, conditionals, closures (via NativeFn
wrapper), define, return.
Protocol: (vm-exec {:bytecode (...) :constants (...)})
- Compiler outputs clean format (no internal index dict)
- VM converts bytecode list to int array, constants to value array
- Stack-based execution with direct opcode dispatch
The 2.2x speedup is for pure arithmetic. For aser (the real
target), the speedup will be larger because aser involves:
- String building (no CEK frame allocation in VM)
- Map/filter iterations (no frame-per-iteration in VM)
- Closure calls (no thunk/trampoline in VM)
Next: compile and run the aser adapter on the VM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three new files forming the bytecode compilation pipeline:
spec/bytecode.sx — opcode definitions (~65 ops):
- Stack/constant ops (CONST, NIL, TRUE, POP, DUP)
- Lexical variable access (LOCAL_GET/SET, UPVALUE_GET/SET, GLOBAL_GET/SET)
- Jump-based control flow (JUMP, JUMP_IF_FALSE/TRUE)
- Function ops (CALL, TAIL_CALL, RETURN, CLOSURE, CALL_PRIM)
- HO form ops (ITER_INIT/NEXT, MAP_OPEN/APPEND/CLOSE)
- Scope/continuation ops (SCOPE_PUSH/POP, RESET, SHIFT)
- Aser specialization (ASER_TAG, ASER_FRAG)
spec/compiler.sx — SX-to-bytecode compiler (SX code, portable):
- Scope analysis: resolve variables to local/upvalue/global at compile time
- Tail position detection for TCO
- Code generation for: if, when, and, or, let, begin, lambda,
define, set!, quote, function calls, primitive calls
- Constant pool with deduplication
- Jump patching for forward references
hosts/ocaml/lib/sx_vm.ml — bytecode interpreter (OCaml):
- Stack-based VM with array-backed operand stack
- Call frames with base pointer for locals
- Direct opcode dispatch via pattern match
- Zero allocation per step (unlike CEK machine's dict-per-step)
- Handles: constants, variables, jumps, calls, primitives,
collections, string concat, define
Architecture: compiler.sx is spec (SX, portable). VM is platform
(OCaml-native). Same bytecode runs on JS/WASM VMs.
Also includes: CekFrame record optimization in transpiler.sx
(29 frame types as records instead of Hashtbl).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
