`eval <expr>` evals an SX expression against the warm image and reports round-trip time —
the profiling primitive that isolated relations/relate at 6s/call (super-linear). `reload
<files>` hot-reloads specific modules into the warm image. GOTCHAS baked in: the epoch
protocol rejects bare exprs ("Unknown command") so eval wraps in (eval "<src>") with quote/
backslash escaping; an (eval …) acks as (ok-len N C) with the result on its own line (NOT
(ok N R), which is the LOAD ack), errors as (error N …).
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conformance.sh cold-loads all ~57 modules every run (a multi-minute tax, worst under box
contention). warm-conf.sh keeps a long-lived sx_server with the 44 heavy dependency modules
(datalog/acl/relations/persist/dream) loaded ONCE, and per run reloads only the 16 lib/host/*
modules + the suite's test file — the things you actually edit — then evals the runner.
Reads the MODULES + SUITES arrays straight from conformance.sh (no duplication/drift). Safe
across runs: each test file re-opens a fresh persist store, and (since blog typing now reads
direct KV edges, not lib/relations) the warm Datalog DB no longer feeds blog results, so
stale facts can't pollute a re-run. Usage: warm-conf.sh start | run [suite] | stop.
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