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>
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