The kernel-on-sx loop documented six candidate reflective API files
gated on the two-consumer rule. This plan opens that block by
selecting Tcl's existing uplevel/upvar machinery as the second
consumer for env.sx specifically (the highest-fit candidate).
Discovery: Kernel and Tcl have identical scope-chain semantics but
diverge on mutable-vs-functional update. Solution: adapter-cfg
pattern, same as lib/guest/match.sx. Canonical wire shape with
mutable defaults for Kernel; Tcl provides its own cfg keeping
the functional model.
Roadmap: env.sx extracted, both consumers migrated, all tests green.
The other five candidate files (combiner, evaluator, hygiene,
quoting, short-circuit) stay deferred — Tcl has no operatives.
Loop closer documenting what 18 feature commits produced. Kernel-on-SX
is 1,398 LoC substrate + 1,747 LoC tests = 3,145 LoC total. Zero
substrate fixes required across the loop. R-1RK core + extras
implemented. Six proposed lib/guest/reflective/ files awaiting second
consumer. Substrate verdict: env-as-value generalises to
evaluator-as-value; the m-eval demo proves it.
Five type predicates (number?, string?, list?, boolean?, symbol?).
New tests/metacircular.sx: m-eval defined in Kernel walks expressions
itself, recursing on applicative-call args and delegating to host
eval only for operatives and symbol lookup. 14 demo tests.
The demo surfaced a real bug: map/filter/reduce called kernel-combine
on applicative head-vals directly, which re-evaluates already-
evaluated element values; nested-list elements crashed. Fix: extracted
knl-apply-op (unwrap-applicative-or-pass-through) and use it in all
three combinators before kernel-combine. Mirrors apply's approach.
Added knl-apply-op as a proposed entry in the reflective combiner.sx
API. 322 tests total.
(apply F (list V1 V2 V3)) ≡ (F V1 V2 V3). Unwrap applicative first to
skip auto-eval (args are values), then kernel-combine with the
underlying operative. Universal pattern in reflective Lisps —
sketched into the combiner.sx API. 296 tests total.
Added kernel-make-primitive-applicative-with-env in eval.sx — IMPL
receives (args dyn-env), needed by combinators that re-enter the
evaluator. map/filter/reduce in runtime.sx use it to call user-supplied
combiners on each element with the caller's dynamic env preserved.
Sketched the env-blind vs env-aware applicative split as a new entry
in the proposed combiner.sx reflective API. 289 tests total.
Standard Kernel control flow. $cond walks clauses in order with `else`
catch-all; clauses past the first match are NOT evaluated. $when/$unless
are simple guards. 12 tests, 242 total.
kernel-quasiquote-operative walks the template via mutually-recursive
knl-quasi-walk ↔ knl-quasi-walk-list. $unquote forms eval in dyn-env;
$unquote-splicing splices list-valued results. No depth tracking
(nested quasiquotes flatten). 8 new tests, 230 total. Sketched the
universal reflective quoting kit API for the eventual Phase 7 extraction.
:body slot holds a LIST of forms now (was single expression). New
knl-eval-body in eval.sx evaluates each form in sequence, returning
the last. $vau and $lambda accept (formals env-param body...) /
(formals body...). No $sequence dependency. 223 tests total.
Parser now reads 'expr, \`expr, ,expr, ,@expr as the four standard
shorthands. Quote uses existing $quote operative; quasiquote /
unquote / unquote-splicing recognised but not yet expanded at runtime
(left for first consumer to drive). 218 tests total across six suites.
Hygiene-by-default was already present: user operatives close over
static-env and bind formals + body $define!s in (extend STATIC-ENV),
caller's env untouched. $let evaluates values in caller env, binds
in fresh child env, runs body there. $define-in! explicitly targets
an env. Full scope-set / frame-stamp hygiene is research-grade
and documented as deferred future work in the reflective API notes.
kernel-eval/kernel-combine dispatch on tagged values: operatives see
un-evaluated args + dynamic env; applicatives evaluate args then recurse.
No hardcoded special forms — $if/$quote tested as ordinary operatives
built on the fly. Pure-SX env representation
{:knl-tag :env :bindings DICT :parent P}, surfaced as a candidate
lib/guest/reflective/env.sx API since SX make-env is HTTP-mode only.
Captures the work left on the shelf after the loops/minikanren squash
merge:
Piece A — Phase 7 SLG (cyclic patho, mutual recursion). The hardest
piece; the brief's "research-grade complexity" caveat
still stands. Plan documents the in-progress sentinel +
answer-accumulator + fixed-point-driver design.
Piece B — Phase 6 polish: bounds-consistency for fd-plus / fd-times
in the (var var var) case. Math is straightforward
interval reasoning; low risk, self-contained.
Piece C — =/= disequality with a constraint store. Generalises
nafc / fd-neq to logic terms via a pending-disequality
list re-checked after each ==.
Piece D — Bigger CLP(FD) demos: send-more-money and Sudoku 4x4.
Both validate Piece B once it lands.
Suggested ordering: B (low risk, unlocks D) → D (concrete validation)
→ C (independent track) → A (highest risk, do last).
Operating ground rules carried over from the original loop brief:
loops/minikanren branch, sx-tree MCP only, one feature per commit,
test count must monotonically grow.
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This session cleared 15 of the 18 documented skips:
- Toggle parser ambiguity (1) — 2-token lookahead in parse-toggle
- Throttled-at modifier (1) — parser + emit-on wrap + runtime hs-throttle!/hs-debounce!
- Tokenizer-stream API (13) — hs-stream wrapper + 15 stream primitives
Plus a perf fix in compiler.sx (hoisted throttle/debounce helpers to
module level so they don't get JIT-recompiled per emit-on call). Wall
time for full batched suite: 28m45s, was 26m17s before sync (so net
+18 tests cost only +2m even though 3x more work).
Remaining skips (3):
- Template-component scope tests (2) — needs <script type="text/
hyperscript-template"> custom-element bootstrap registrar.
- Async event dispatch (1) — repeat until event needs the OCaml
kernel to release the JS event loop between iterations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
parser.sx parse-toggle-cmd: when seeing 'toggle .foo for', peek the
following two tokens. If they are '<ident> in', it is a for-in loop
and toggle does NOT consume 'for' as a duration clause. Restores the
trailing for-in to the command list.
parser.sx parse-on (handler modifiers): recognize 'throttled at <ms>'
and 'debounced at <ms>' as handler modifiers. Captured as :throttle /
:debounce kwargs in the on-form parts list.
compiler.sx emit-on: pre-extract :throttle / :debounce from parts via
new _strip-throttle-debounce helper before scan-on, then wrap the built
handler with (hs-throttle! handler ms) or (hs-debounce! handler ms).
runtime.sx: hs-throttle! — closure with __hs-last-fire timestamp,
fires immediately and drops events arriving within ms of the last fire.
hs-debounce! — closure with __hs-timer, clears any pending timer and
schedules a new setTimeout(handler, ms) so only the last burst event
fires.
Both formerly-architectural skips now pass:
- "toggle does not consume a following for-in loop"
- "throttled at <time> drops events within the window"
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings the architecture branch (559 commits ahead — R7RS step 4-6, JIT
expansion, host_error wrapping, bytecode compiler, etc.) into the
loops/haskell line of work. Conflict in lib/haskell/conformance.sh:
architecture replaced the inline driver with a thin wrapper delegating
to lib/guest/conformance.sh + a config file. Resolved by taking the
wrapper and extending lib/haskell/conformance.conf with all programs
added under loops/haskell (caesar, runlength-str, showadt, showio,
partial, statistics, newton, wordfreq, mapgraph, uniquewords, setops,
shapes, person, config, counter, accumulate, safediv, trycatch) plus
adding map.sx and set.sx to PRELOADS.
plans/haskell-completeness.md gains three new follow-up phases:
- Phase 17 — parser polish (`(x :: Int)` annotations, mid-file imports)
- Phase 18 — one ambitious conformance program (lambda-calc / Dijkstra /
JSON parser candidate list)
- Phase 19 — conformance speed (batch all suites in one sx_server
process to compress the 25-min run to single-digit minutes)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
hk-bind-exceptions! in eval.sx registers throwIO, throw, evaluate, catch,
try, handle, displayException. SomeException constructor pre-registered
in runtime.sx (arity 1, type SomeException).
throwIO and the existing error primitive both raise via SX `raise` with a
uniform "hk-error: msg" string. catch/try/handle parse it back into a
SomeException via hk-exception-of, which strips nested
'Unhandled exception: "..."' host wraps (CEK's host_error formatter) and
the "hk-error: " prefix.
catch and handle evaluate the handler outside the guard scope (build an
"ok"/"exn" outcome tag inside guard, then dispatch outside) so that a
re-throw from the handler propagates past this catch — matching Haskell
semantics rather than infinite-looping in the same guard.
14 unit tests in tests/exceptions.sx (catch success, catch error, try
Right/Left, handle, throwIO + catch/try, evaluate, nested catch, do-bind
through catch, branch on try result, IORef-mutating handler).
Conformance: safediv.hs (8/8) and trycatch.hs (8/8). Scoreboard now
285/285 tests, 36/36 programs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Trivial wrapper: apl-run-file = apl-run ∘ file-read, where
file-read is built-in to OCaml SX.
Tests verify primes.apl, life.apl, quicksort.apl all parse
end-to-end (their last form is a :dfn AST). Source-then-call
test confirms the loaded file's defined fn is callable, even
when the algorithm itself can't fully execute (primes' inline
⍵ rebinding still missing — :glyph-token, not :name-token).
Parser: :name clause now detects 'name ← rhs' patterns inside
expressions. When seen, consumes the remaining tokens as RHS,
parses recursively, and emits a (:assign-expr name parsed-rhs)
value segment.
Eval-ast :dyad and :monad: when the right operand is an
:assign-expr node, capture the binding into env before
evaluating the left operand. This realises the primes idiom:
apl-run "(2 = +⌿ 0 = a ∘.| a) / a ← ⍳ 30"
→ 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29
Also: top-level x←5 now evaluates to scalar 5 (apl-eval-ast
:assign just unwraps to its RHS value).
Caveat: ⍵-rebinding (the original primes.apl uses
'⍵←⍳⍵') is a :glyph-token; only :name-tokens are handled.
A regular variable name (like 'a') works.
Haskell strings are [Char]. Calling reverse / head / length on a SX raw
string transparently produces a cons-list of char codes (via hk-str-head /
hk-str-tail in runtime.sx), but (==) then compared the original raw string
against the char-code cons-list and always returned False — so
"racecar" == reverse "racecar" was False.
Added hk-try-charlist-to-string and hk-normalize-for-eq in eval.sx; routed
== and /= through hk-normalize-for-eq so a string compares equal to any
cons-list whose elements are valid Unicode code points spelling the same
characters, and "[]" ↔ "".
palindrome.hs lifts from 9/12 → 12/12; conformance 33/34 → 34/34 programs,
266/269 → 269/269 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Investigation of the long-standing 'why does the runner say 1494/1494 not
1496/1496?' question. The answer is in tests/hs-run-filtered.js:969 — two
tests are skipped via _SKIP_TESTS for documented architectural reasons:
1. 'until event keyword works' — uses 'repeat until event click from #x',
which suspends the OCaml kernel waiting for a click that is never
dispatched from outside K.eval. The sync test runner has no way to
fire the click while the kernel is suspended.
2. 'throttled at <time> drops events within the window' — the HS parser
does not implement the 'throttled at <ms>' modifier. The compiled SX
for the handler is malformed: handler body is the literal symbol
'throttled', the time expression dangles outside the closure as
stray (do 200 ...). Genuinely needs parser+compiler+runtime work,
not just a deadline bump.
Both are documented at the skip site with a comment explaining why they
can't run synchronously. The conformance number is 1494/1494 = 100% on
counted tests, with 2 explicit, justified skips out of 1496 total.
This was the source of the cumulative-vs-isolated test-count discrepancy.
Suite filter runs see them as 'not in this suite,' batched runs see them
as 'continued past'. Either way: not failures.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
