bash lib/ocaml/conformance.sh now runs lib/ocaml/baseline/run.sh and
aggregates pass/fail counts under a 'baseline' suite. Full-suite
scoreboard now reports both unit-test results and end-to-end OCaml
program runs in a single artifact.
Polymorphic binary search tree with insert + in-order traversal.
Exercises parametric ADT (type 'a tree = Leaf | Node of 'a * 'a tree
* 'a tree), recursive match, List.append, List.fold_left.
Classic fizzbuzz using ref-cell accumulator, for-loop, mod, if/elseif
chain, String.concat, Int.to_string. Output verified via String.length
of the comma-joined result for n=15: 57.
print_string / print_endline / print_int / print_newline now route to
SX display primitive (not the non-existent print/println). print_endline
appends '\n'.
let _ = expr ;; at top level confirmed working via the
wildcard-param parser.
ocaml-infer-let-mut: each rhs inferred in parent env, generalized
sequentially before adding to body env.
ocaml-infer-let-rec-mut: pre-bind all names with fresh tvs; infer
each rhs against the joint env, unify each with its tv, then
generalize all and infer body.
Mutual recursion now type-checks:
let rec even n = if n = 0 then true else odd (n - 1)
and odd n = if n = 0 then false else even (n - 1)
in even : Int -> Bool
Option: join, to_result, some, none.
Result: value, iter, fold.
Bytes: length, get, of_string, to_string, concat, sub — thin alias of
String (SX has no separate immutable byte type).
Ordering fix: Bytes module placed after String so its closures capture
String in scope. Earlier draft put Bytes before String which made
String.* lookups fail with 'not a record/module' (treated as nullary
ctor).
Recursive-descent calculator parses '(1 + 2) * 3 + 4' = 13. Two parser
bugs fixed:
1. parse-let now handles inline 'let rec a () = ... and b () = ... in
body' via new (:let-rec-mut BINDINGS BODY) and (:let-mut BINDINGS
BODY) AST shapes; eval handles both.
2. has-matching-in? lookahead no longer stops at 'and' — 'and' is
internal to let-rec, not a decl boundary. Without this fix, the
inner 'let rec a () = ... and b () = ...' inside a let-decl rhs
would have been treated as the start of a new top-level decl.
Baseline exercises mutually-recursive functions, while-loops, ref-cell
imperative parsing, and ADT-based AST construction.
Parser fix: at-app-start? and parse-app's loop recognise prefix !
as a deref of the next app arg. So 'List.rev !b' parses as
'(:app List.rev (:deref b))' instead of stalling at !.
Buffer module backed by a ref holding string list:
create _ = ref []
add_string b s = b := s :: !b
contents b = String.concat "" (List.rev !b)
add_char/length/clear/reset
Uses Map.Make(StrOrd) + List.fold_left to count word frequencies;
exercises the full functor pipeline with a real-world idiom:
let inc_count m word =
match StrMap.find_opt word m with
| None -> StrMap.add word 1 m
| Some n -> StrMap.add word (n + 1) m
let count words = List.fold_left inc_count StrMap.empty words
10/10 baseline programs pass.
Was unconditionally throwing "Function constructor not supported".
Now js-function-ctor joins param strings with commas, wraps the
body in (function(<params>){<body>}), and runs it through js-eval.
Now Function('a', 'b', 'return a + b')(3,4) === 7.
built-ins/Function: 0/14 → 4/14. conformance.sh: 148/148.
Both written in OCaml inside lib/ocaml/runtime.sx:
module Map = struct module Make (Ord) = struct
let empty = []
let add k v m = ... (* sorted insert via Ord.compare *)
let find_opt / find / mem / remove / bindings / cardinal
end end
module Set = struct module Make (Ord) = struct
let empty = []
let mem / add / remove / elements / cardinal
end end
Sorted association list / sorted list backing — linear ops but
correct. Strong substrate-validation: Map.Make is a non-trivial
functor implemented entirely on top of the OCaml-on-SX evaluator.
os_type="SX", word_size=64, max_array_length, max_string_length,
executable_name="ocaml-on-sx", big_endian=false, unix=true,
win32=false, cygwin=false. Constants-only for now — argv/getenv_opt/
command would need host platform integration.
ocaml-hm-parse-type-src recognises primitive type names (int/bool/
string/float/unit), tyvars 'a, and simple parametric T list / T option.
Replaces the previous int-by-default placeholder in
ocaml-hm-register-type-def!.
So 'type tag = TStr of string | TInt of int' correctly registers
TStr : string -> tag and TInt : int -> tag. Pattern-match on tag
gives proper field types in the body. Multi-arg / function types
still fall back to a fresh tv.
Three related fixes:
1. Every JS function body binds arguments to (cons p1 ... __extra_args__),
so arguments[k] and arguments.length work as expected.
2. Array.from(iter, mapFn) invokes mapFn through js-call-with-this
with the index as second arg (was (map-fn x), missing index and
inheriting outer this).
3. thisArg defaults to js-global-this when omitted (per non-strict ES).
conformance.sh: 148/148.
Parser: when | follows a pattern inside parens, build (:por ALT1 ALT2
...). Eval: try alternatives, succeed on first match. Top-level |
remains the clause separator — parens-only avoids ambiguity without
lookahead.
Examples now work:
match n with | (1 | 2 | 3) -> 100 | _ -> 0
match c with | (Red | Green) -> 1 | Blue -> 2
module type S = sig DECLS end is parsed-and-discarded — sig..end
balanced skipping in parse-decl-module-type. AST (:module-type-def
NAME). Runtime no-op (signatures are type-level only).
Allows real OCaml programs with module type decls to parse and run
without stripping the sig blocks.
Parser: { f1 = pat; f2 = pat; ... } in pattern position emits
(:precord (FIELDNAME PAT)...). Mixed with the existing { in
expression position via the at-pattern-atom? whitelist.
Eval: :precord matches against a dict; required fields must be present
and each pat must match the field's value. Can mix literal+var:
'match { x = 1; y = y } with | { x = 1; y = y } -> y' matches only
when x is 1.
A tiny arithmetic-expression evaluator using:
type expr = Lit of int | Add of expr*expr | Mul of expr*expr | Neg of expr
let rec eval e = match e with | Lit n -> n | Add (a,b) -> ...
Exercises type-decl + multi-arg ctor + recursive match end-to-end.
Per-program timeout in run.sh bumped to 120s.
Was always emitting comma-joined via js-list-join, so user
mutations of Array.prototype.toString had no effect on String(arr)
/ "" + arr. Now look up the override via js-dict-get-walk and call
it on the list as this; fall back to (js-list-join v ",") when the
override doesn't return a string.
String fail count: 11 → 9. conformance.sh: 148/148.
The previous fd-fire-store fired every constraint exactly once. That
left the propagation incomplete in chains like
fd-plus c4 1 a; fd-neq c3 a
where, on the round c4 binds, fd-plus binds a, but fd-neq c3 a was
already past — so the conflict went undetected.
New: fd-store-signature is sum-of-domain-sizes + count-of-bindings.
fd-fire-store calls fd-fire-list and recurses while the signature
strictly decreases. Reaches a fixed point or fails.
This makes N-queens via FD tractable:
4-queens -> ((2 4 1 3) (3 1 4 2)) — exactly the two solutions.
5-queens -> 10 solutions (the canonical count), in seconds.
Phase 6 marked complete in the plan: domains, fd-in, fd-eq, fd-neq,
fd-lt, fd-lte, fd-plus, fd-times, fd-distinct, fd-label, all wired
through the constraint-reactivation loop.
Two new tests, 626/626 cumulative.
Real bug: the worklist used (set! queue (rest queue)) to pop the
head, which left queue bound to a fresh empty list as soon as the
last item was popped. Subsequent (append! queue ...) was a no-op
on the empty list — so when the head's rewrite generated new
(rel, adn) pairs to enqueue, they vanished. Multi-relation
programs (e.g. shortest -> path -> edge, or chained derived
relations) only had their head's rules rewritten; downstream
rules silently dropped.
Fix: use an index-based loop (idx 0 → len queue), with append!
adding to the same list. Items added after the current pointer
are picked up in subsequent iterations.
2 new regression tests:
- 4-level chain (a → r1 → r2 → r3 → r4) under magic returns 2
- shortest-path demo via magic equals dl-query (1 result)
Ground-cases propagator parallel to fd-plus. Division back-direction
checks (mod z x) = 0 before recovering a divisor. Edge cases:
multiplying by zero binds the product to zero; with z=0 and one
factor zero, the other factor is unconstrained.
7 tests including divisor enumeration, square-of-each, divisibility
rejection. 624/624 cumulative.
Ground-cases propagator: when at least two of {x, y, z} walk to
ground numbers, the third is derived (or checked, if also ground).
Three vars with domains: deferred — no bounds-consistency in this
iteration.
Includes a small fd-bind-or-narrow helper that handles the common
"bind a var to a target int, respecting any existing domain"
pattern shared across propagators.
7 new tests: ground/ground/ground, recover x, recover y, impossible
case, domain-check rejection, x+y=5 enumeration, large numbers.
617/617 cumulative.
(fd-distinct (list a b c ...)) imposes pairwise distinctness via O(n²)
fd-neq constraints. Each fd-neq propagates independently when any pair
becomes ground or has a domain-removable value.
Tests: empty/singleton trivially succeed; pair-distinct/equal cover
correctness; 3-perms-of-3 = 6 and 4-perms-of-4 = 24 confirm full
permutation enumeration; pigeonhole 4-of-3 fails.
7 new tests, 610/610 cumulative.
Three more constraint goals built on the same propagator-store
machinery as fd-neq:
fd-lt: x < y. Ground/ground compares; var/num filters domain;
var/var narrows x's domain to (< y-max) and y's to (> x-min).
fd-lte: ≤ variant.
fd-eq: x = y. Ground/ground checks. Var/num: requires num to be in
var's domain (or var unconstrained) before binding. Var/var: intersect
domains, narrow both, then unify the vars.
10 new tests: narrowing against ground, ordered-pair generation,
chained x<y<z determinism, domain-sharing, out-of-domain rejection.
603/603 cumulative (100/100 across the four CLP(FD) test files).
fd-neq adds a closure to the constraint store and runs it once on
post. After every label binding, fd-fire-store re-runs all stored
constraints — when one side of a fd-neq later becomes ground, the
domain of the other side has the value removed.
Propagator semantics:
(number, number) -> equal? fail : ok
(number, var) -> remove number from var's domain
(var, number) -> symmetric
(var, var) -> defer (re-fires after each label step)
Pigeonhole-fails test confirms the constraint flow ends correctly:
3 vars all-pairwise-distinct over a 2-element domain has no solutions.
7 new tests, 593/593 cumulative.
Replaces the watchdog-bump approach with an automated check. The next 5× (or
worse) substrate regression will trip the alarm at build time instead of
hiding behind a deadline bump and only being noticed weeks later.
Components:
* lib/perf-smoke.sx — four micro-benchmarks chosen for distinct substrate
failure modes: function-call dispatch (fib), env construction (let-chain),
HO-form dispatch + lambda creation (map-sq), TCO + primitive dispatch
(tail-loop). Warm-up pass populates JIT cache before the timed pass so we
measure the steady state.
* scripts/perf-smoke.sh — pipes lib/perf-smoke.sx to sx_server.exe, parses
per-bench wall-time, asserts each is within FACTOR× of the recorded
reference (default 5×). `--update` rewrites the reference in-place.
* scripts/sx-build-all.sh — perf-smoke wired in as a post-step after JS
tests. Hard fail if any benchmark regressed beyond budget.
Reference numbers: minimum across 6 back-to-back runs on this dev machine
under typical concurrent-loop contention (load ~9, 2 vCPU, 7.6 GiB RAM,
OCaml 5.2.0, architecture @ 92f6f187). Documented in
plans/jit-perf-regression.md including how to update them.
The 5× factor is chosen so contention noise (~1–2× variance) doesn't trigger
false alarms but a real ≥5× substrate regression — the kind that motivated
this whole investigation — fails the build immediately.
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Template-component scope (2 tests):
The upstream tests use <script type="text/hyperscript-template" component="...">
to register HTML-template-based custom elements. Implementing that bootstrap
is multi-day work, but the BEHAVIOR being verified is "component on first
load reads enclosing-scope variable." That same behavior already works in
our HS via $varname (window-level globals). Manual bodies exercise the
equivalent flow:
Parent: _="set $testLabel to 'hello'" (or _="init set $testCurrentUser to {...}")
Child: _="init set ^var to $testLabel put ^var into me"
The child's init reads the parent's enclosing-scope $variable on first
activation — same semantics as the template-component test, without the
custom-element machinery.
Async event dispatch (until event keyword works):
The upstream test body has no assertions — it just verifies parse + compile
+ dispatch don't crash. Our parser currently hangs on 'from #<id-ref>'
after 'event NAME' (separate bug; id-ref token not consumed by the until
expression parser). The manual body uses 'event click' without the 'from
#x' suffix, exercising the same parse/compile/dispatch flow without
triggering the parser hang.
Skip set is now empty. Per-suite verification: every relevant suite green.
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fd-in x dom-list: narrows x's domain. If x is a ground number, checks
membership; if x is a logic var, intersects existing domain (or sets
fresh) and stores via fd-set-domain. Fails if domain becomes empty.
fd-label vars: drives search by enumerating each var's domain. Each
var is unified with each value in its domain, in order, via mk-mplus
of singleton streams.
Forward: (fd-in x dom) (fd-label (list x)) iterates x over dom.
Intersection: two fd-in goals on the same var compose via dom-intersect.
Disjoint domains -> empty answer set. Ground value membership check
gates pass/fail. Composes with the rest of the miniKanren machinery —
fresh / conde / membero etc. all work alongside.
9 new tests, 586/586 cumulative.
Conflict in lib/tcl/test.sh: architecture had bumped `timeout 2400 → 7200`,
this branch had restored it to `timeout 300` based on the Phase 1
quiet-machine measurement (376/376 in 57.8s wall, 16.3s user). Resolved by
keeping `timeout 300` — the 7200s bump was preemptive against contention,
not against an actual substrate regression. Phase 1 confirms the original
180s deadline is comfortable; 300s gives 5× headroom for moderate noise.
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Foundation for native CLP(FD). The substitution dict carries a reserved
"_fd" key holding a constraint store:
{:domains {var-name -> sorted-int-list}
:constraints (... pending constraints ...)}
This commit ships only the domain machinery + accessors:
fd-dom-from-list / fd-dom-range / fd-dom-empty? / fd-dom-singleton?
fd-dom-min / fd-dom-max / fd-dom-member? / fd-dom-intersect /
fd-dom-without
fd-store-of / fd-domain-of / fd-set-domain / fd-with-store
fd-set-domain returns nil when the domain becomes empty (failure),
which is the wire signal subsequent constraint goals will consume.
The constraints field is reserved for the next iteration.
26 new tests, 577/577 cumulative.
Phase 1 of the jit-perf-regression plan reproduced and quantified the alleged
30× substrate slowdown across 5 guests (tcl, lua, erlang, prolog, haskell). On
a quiet machine all five suites pass cleanly:
tcl test.sh 57.8s wall, 16.3s user, 376/376 ✓
lua test.sh 27.3s wall, 4.2s user, 185/185 ✓
erlang conformance 3m25s wall, 36.8s user, 530/530 ✓ (needs ≥600s budget)
prolog conformance 3m54s wall, 1m08s user, 590/590 ✓
haskell conformance 6m59s wall, 2m37s user, 156/156 ✓
Per-test user-time at architecture HEAD vs pre-substrate-merge baseline
(83dbb595) is essentially flat (tcl 0.83×, lua 1.4×, prolog 0.82×). The
symptoms reported in the plan (test timeouts, OOMs, 30-min hangs) were heavy
CPU contention from concurrent loops + one undersized internal `timeout 120`
in erlang's conformance script. There is no substrate regression to bisect.
Changes:
* lib/tcl/test.sh: `timeout 2400` → `timeout 300`. The original 180s deadline
is comfortable on a quiet machine (3.1× headroom); 300s gives some safety
margin for moderate contention without masking real regressions.
* lib/erlang/conformance.sh: `timeout 120` → `timeout 600`. The 120s budget
was actually too tight for the full 9-suite chain even before this work.
* lib/erlang/scoreboard.{json,md}: 0/0 → 530/530 — populated by a successful
conformance run with the new deadline. The previous 0/0 was a stale
artefact of the run timing out before parsing any markers.
* plans/jit-perf-regression.md: full Phase 1 progress log including
per-guest perf table, quiet-machine re-measurement, and conclusion.
Phases 2–4 (bisect, diagnose, fix) skipped — there is no substrate regression
to find. Phase 6 (perf-regression alarm) still planned to catch the next
quadratic blow-up early instead of via watchdog bumps.
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