map/filter/remove/take/drop/concat/take-while/drop-while/mapcat/partition
built an eager-headed cseq: the first element (and the fn application) ran
at construction, so a side-effecting (map f coll) fired f immediately and
(class (map …)) was PersistentList instead of LazySeq. This diverged from
Clojure, which wraps the whole body in lazy-seq. It went unnoticed because
the conformance gate certifies values, not realization — eager and lazy
heads produce identical values — and unit.edn even baked PersistentList in
as expected. test.check's for-all-takes-multiple-expressions (which counts
side effects in a for-all body) exposed it.
Wrap each native producer's result in a lazy-seq node so the body, incl.
the first element, defers until forced — the forced cseq still has eager
heads, so reduce/count/dorun/etc. force on walk and there's no per-element
cost. dedupe's (seq coll) is moved inside its lazy-seq. A jolt LazySeq is
now recognized by coll?/empty, the analyzer's form predicates (a macro can
build its expansion with map), value-host-tags + instance? (LazySeq/ISeq/
Sequential), and reports clojure.lang.LazySeq.
Kept the native Scheme implementations rather than porting Clojure's: a
straight lazy-seq+cons port is 3x slower and Clojure's chunked fast path is
288x slower because jolt's chunk machinery is unoptimized (filed jolt-j9dz);
the wrapped natives are Clojure-lazy at native speed.
+12 corpus rows (laziness at construction, LazySeq type, both JVM-certified).
make test + shakesmoke green, selfhost holds, 0 new divergences.
clojure.core's unchecked-* (and +/-/*/inc/dec under *unchecked-math*) are long
ops that WRAP on overflow; jolt's checked arithmetic is arbitrary-precision and
its unchecked-* were plain non-wrapping (+ x y), diverging from the JVM. Now they
truncate to the low 64 bits as a signed long, matching Clojure:
(unchecked-add 9223372036854775807 1) => -9223372036854775808
(unchecked-multiply 9223372036854775807 …) => 1
- host/chez/seq.ss: jolt-wrap64 + binary jolt-unc{add,sub,mul,inc,dec,neg}2 and
the variadic clojure.core/unchecked-* fns (def-var!'d in natives-seq.ss, where
def-var! is bound). The overlay's plain unchecked-* defns are removed.
- backend lng-ops: unchecked-+/-/* emit the wrapping jolt-unc* helpers (the
raising fx ops can't wrap on Chez's 61-bit fixnums); unchecked-inc/dec too.
- *unchecked-math* is honored: the analyzer reads it (jolt.host/unchecked-math?)
and rewrites +/-/*/inc/dec to their unchecked-* for the rest of a file that
(set!)s it, like the JVM.
- jolt->fx: a ^long value that overflows the 61-bit fixnum range passes through
as an exact integer instead of erroring (a full-width long from wrapping math).
Also adds Long/bitCount / numberOfLeadingZeros / reverse and Math/getExponent /
scalb (test.check's splittable PRNG uses them).
This lets clojure.test.check load and run quick-check on jolt. re-mint (analyzer/
backend/overlay are seed sources). make test green (+6 corpus rows, 0 new
divergences, numeric gate updated), shakesmoke byte-identical.
clojure.core.contracts (over core.unify) now runs its whole suite on jolt —
14/14 across contracts/constraints/with-constraints/provide tests. Two general
gaps fixed:
- Symbol and Keyword now report IFn (and Fn/Runnable/Callable) in the modeled
class hierarchy, so a (class x)-dispatched multimethod with an IFn method
matches a symbol or keyword, like the JVM (both implement IFn — they're
callable). core.contracts' funcify* dispatches on (class constraint) and a
bare predicate symbol must hit the IFn arm. Runtime, no re-mint.
- A live Var value spliced into a form by a macro (defcurry-from resolves a var
and emits (~v l r)) now compiles: analyze treats a var-cell form as a
:the-var reference by ns+name, the same node as (var ns/name), mirroring the
existing spliced-namespace (~*ns*) case. analyzer.clj + host-contract.ss,
re-mint (prelude stays byte-identical; only the analyzer image changes).
Listed in docs/libraries.md + the site.
make test green (+2 corpus rows, 0 new divergences), shakesmoke byte-identical.
A macro body can now read &form (the call form) and &env (a map of the in-scope
local symbols), like Clojure. This is what core.logic's matche/defne use to tell
a pattern symbol that names an enclosing local from a fresh pattern var — so
locals-membero and the recursive checko in `matches` now compute correctly. The
suite reaches 535/2/0 (the last two are constraint reification ORDER, where the
constraint set is right but it is spliced from a set whose iteration order differs
from the JVM — a host set-ordering divergence, not a bug).
&form/&env are clojure.core dynamic vars bound around each expander call rather
than prepended params, so the macro calling convention is unchanged and the mint
stays consistent (the seed prelude is byte-identical; only the analyzer carries
the env into form-expand-1). macroexpand-1 passes an empty env.
corpus.edn: the ~@ unquote row is now a boolean compare (a bare clojure.core/
unquote-splicing symbol evaluates to an unbound var, not the symbol).
Two general fixes that clear core.logic's finite-domain -difference, safefd, and
the defne quoted-list patterns (form->ast), taking the suite to 532/5/0.
- instance? on a deftype matched a simple type name against the qualified tag by
raw string suffix, so "a.b.MultiIntervalFD" tested true for IntervalFD. The
suffix must land on a "." boundary. core.logic's fd dispatches on
(interval? x) = (instance? IntervalFD x), and a MultiIntervalFD wrongly counted
as an interval, so -difference/safefd computed the wrong set.
- the reader reads ~ / ~@ as clojure.core/unquote(-splicing), like the JVM reader,
instead of a bare unquote. Code that inspects quoted pattern/template data —
core.logic's defne checks (= f 'clojure.core/unquote) — now sees the symbol it
expects, so '(fn ~args . ~body) patterns compile. hc-head-is? accepts the
qualified head in syntax-quote lowering; the value-preserving change leaves the
minted seed byte-identical.
corpus.edn: 2 JVM-certified unquote rows. unit.edn: two reader rows updated to the
qualified unquote. make test + shakesmoke green, 0 new divergences, self-host holds.
A name a namespace excludes from clojure.core (:refer-clojure :exclude) is not
clojure.core/name even before the ns defines its own — syntax-quote must qualify
it to the current ns, like Clojure. refer-clojure was a no-op, so a syntax-quoted
excluded name (core.logic.fd's `==`, referenced by a constraint's -rator before fd
defines ==) resolved to clojure.core/==.
jolt-refer-clojure now records the :exclude set per ns; hc-sq-symbol consults it
before falling back to clojure.core. Fixes core.logic's fd constraint -rator names.
Runtime only, no re-mint.
Running clojure/core.logic's own suite surfaced a batch of general jolt gaps.
None are core.logic-specific; each is a language/host behavior that was wrong or
missing. With these, the core relational engine (unify, run/fresh/conde,
conso/membero/appendo, reification to _0/_1, lcons) runs; the remaining failures
are in core.logic's constraint-logic-programming and finite-domain layers
(tracked separately).
- analyzer: accept the list-member dot form (. target (method args)), sugar for
(. target method args). Re-mint.
- identical? is reference identity (eq?), not value equality. It was aliased to =,
which infinite-loops when a deftype's .equals short-circuits on (identical? this o)
(core.logic's Substitutions) and is wrong for distinct equal collections.
- jrecs use a deftype's declared hashCode/equals/equiv for map/set keying instead
of structural field comparison, so metadata-wrapped keys still match (core.logic
keys substitutions on lvar id, ignoring metadata).
- meta/with-meta dispatch to a deftype's clojure.lang.IObj meta/withMeta methods
when present, so metadata threaded through the type's own assoc/withMeta survives
(previously kept in an identity side-table the reconstructed instances didn't share).
- coll?/seqable? on a deftype require IPersistentCollection (cons) or ISeq (first);
ILookup(valAt)/Indexed(nth)/Counted(count)/Seqable(seq) alone no longer qualify,
matching the JVM.
- syntax-quote resolves a bare symbol to the compile ns's own def before
clojure.core, so a name the ns excluded and redefined (core.logic's == after
:refer-clojure :exclude) qualifies correctly in macro output.
- reader: record literals #ns.Type{...} / #ns.Type[...] expand to the map->/->
factory call.
- structmap API: defstruct/create-struct/struct-map/struct/accessor (map-backed,
insertion-ordered). Re-mint.
- .hashCode on strings/symbols (Java String.hashCode, Symbol Util.hashCombine);
Class.isInstance; java.util.Collection.contains over vector/list/set;
clojure.lang.RT/nextID and clojure.lang.Util hash/hasheq/equiv/identical statics.
corpus.edn: 8 JVM-certified rows. unit.edn: a Counted+Seqable deftype is coll?=false
(was a stale expectation encoding the old behavior).
jolt maps were HAMTs with hash iteration order; Clojure keeps small maps as
PersistentArrayMap (insertion order), converting to PersistentHashMap past a
threshold. Map literals, array-map, assoc, into/transient, merge, zipmap,
select-keys, update-keys/vals, frequencies and group-by now iterate in insertion
order for <=8 entries, matching the JVM. hash-map and >8-entry maps stay hash
order; sets stay hash order.
The pmap record gains an order field (the insertion-order key list, or #f once
hashed); the HAMT still backs the values so equality/hash/lookup are unchanged.
pmap-fold visits an array-mode map last-to-first so the runtime's cons-accumulate
idiom reconstructs insertion order without touching its many call sites, and
hash-mode output stays byte-identical; pmap-fold-fwd visits in order for the few
sites that build a value directly. Transient maps track insertion order and
promote to hash past max(8, source-count), matching TransientArrayMap.
The hash-map native-op retargets to a hash-order builder so (hash-map ...) stays
hash-ordered while {...} literals are ordered; syntax-quote builds maps via the
hash builder (Clojure expands `{...} to apply hash-map). The core overlay map
builders seed from {} instead of (hash-map) to keep order.
Threshold is 8 for any key (the keyword exception in newer Clojure isn't in
1.12.5). honeysql now passes 832/0/0; 19 JVM-certified corpus rows added.
#{...} reads as the tagged set-form for the analyzer, but a macro saw that
map instead of a set (set? false / map? true, unlike a vector). hc-expand-1
now converts a set-form argument to a real set before calling the expander, so
(set? arg)/conj/seq work — hiccup's compiler introspects a literal set this way
(str (html #{"<>"}) was empty, now #{"<>"}). Elements stay as
read; a deeply-nested set literal inside another form is left for the analyzer.
hiccup 382->383. Jolt-side unit guards (macro def+use in one form isn't
JVM-portable).
jolt.host/record-ctor-key and record-type? were stubs returning nil since the
rehost, so phint-of always produced nil — a ^Record param hint (^Sphere s) was
silently dead. The inference only ever typed a record param when its callers
passed a concrete ctor (whole-program), so a fn called with an untyped value (a
vector element, a value threaded through recursion) read its fields generically.
Resolve the tag against the record registry (records.ss): chez-find-ctor-key maps
a ^Type tag to the ctor-key "ns/->Name" the inference seeds with, preferring the
compile ns and falling back to any registered record of that simple name (cross-ns
/ imported). record-type? / record-ctor-key call it. Runtime .ss — no re-mint (the
analyzer reaches record-ctor-key through the host var).
With this, a ^Sphere/^Ray-hinted hit-sphere in the ray tracer types its params, so
its 48 generic jolt-get field reads + boxed arithmetic become bare-index reads +
fl-ops: ray tracer 38.4s -> 23.9s (~1.6x), make test / shakesmoke green, selfhost
holds, 0 new divergences. A wrong hint stays safe — jrec-field-at falls back to
jolt-get for a non-record.
run-fieldnum.ss: a ^V-hinted param (no inferable caller) bare-indexes + unboxes,
with no generic jolt-get left.
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
Re-derive each app fn's param types from its call sites under --opt, so a
record type flows across fn boundaries: a ctor's return reaches a callee
param, and a typed vector's element reaches a HOF closure's param. The back
end can then bare-index field reads and devirtualize protocol calls at those
sites (it reads the resulting :hint/:devirt annotations; consuming them is
separate work).
This rebuilds the inter-procedural driver the Janet host had — the API
(infer-body/reinfer-def) survived the rehost but nothing drove it, and the
record-shapes/protocol-methods registries were empty stubs.
- records.ss: populate record-shapes (ctor key -> fields/tags/type, resolving
nested record field tags) and protocol-methods (method var -> [proto method])
registries at deftype/defprotocol load time; jolt.host accessors materialize
them.
- passes/types.clj: wp-infer! runs a closed-world fixpoint joining call-site
arg types into callee params; reinfer-def re-seeds each def at emit. Self-
recursive calls and fn-level recur are collected so a recursive fn's params
are constrained by its recursion, not just external callers — else a param
the recursion widens (e.g. binary-trees check-tree, whose untagged child can
be nil) would be unsoundly typed non-nil. A fn used in value position keeps
:any params (callers unknown). Megamorphic sites join to :any.
- build.ss: analyze all app forms and run the fixpoint before per-form emit.
- run-wp.ss: gate (cross-fn propagation, escape soundness, self-recursion).
make test / shakesmoke green, 0 new divergences, selfhost holds.
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
* Reader records source line/column on list forms
The reader stamps 1-based :line/:column metadata on every list form (plus
:file when load-jolt-file is reading a file), and jolt.host/form-position
reads it back so the analyzer's :pos scaffold finally gets real data. A
left-to-right cursor counts newlines over the delta between successive forms,
so it stays O(n). Vector/map/set literals are untouched (their metadata is a
runtime value the analyzer would have to wrap in with-meta); empty () can't
carry meta. ^meta now merges onto the position keys instead of clobbering them.
Re-mint is byte-identical (the backend doesn't emit :pos), so this is a pure
scaffold for the error-location work that follows.
* Report source location on uncaught errors
Each top-level form records its source position (thread-local) before it
compiles+evals, and cli.ss jolt-report-uncaught appends 'at file:line:col'
when an error propagates out. Covers joltc -e, joltc run <file>, and
load-string — every interpreted path. Top-level granularity, one set per
form; deeper frames come from the Phase 2 frame walk.
Runtime .ss only, no re-mint.
* Clojure stack traces via source registry + native frame walk
A direct-link build emits (jolt-register-source! short-name ns name file line)
once per fn def — at definition time, so zero per-call cost. On an uncaught
error the reporter walks Chez's native continuation frames (jolt-throw captures
the live continuation via call/cc; host conditions carry their own
&continuation), maps each frame's procedure name through the registry, and
prints a Clojure backtrace 'ns/name (file:line)'. Wired into both the cli and a
built binary's launcher.
Frames are keyed by the short munged fn name Chez actually reports (emit-fn's
letrec self-binding), not jv$ns$name; a cross-namespace collision degrades to
the bare frame name rather than a wrong attribution. The analyzer carries the
original form's position through defn macroexpansion onto the def node.
Calling a non-fn now throws a catchable ClassCastException (via jolt-throw)
naming the operator, instead of a raw Chez error.
Caveats (documented in source-registry.ss): names map only in direct-link/AOT
closed-world builds — the open-world -e/repl/run path falls back to the
top-level location; and pervasive TCO erases tail-call frames, so a mapped
trace shows only the non-tail spine. JOLT_DEBUG_FRAMES dumps raw frame names.
Re-mint (analyzer + backend); prelude byte-identical (direct-link off during
mint). Corpus rows certified, build-smoke asserts the trace.
* Propagate source position through macroexpansion
hc-expand-1 now carries the macro call form's :line/:column onto the top of a
list expansion that has none of its own (merged under any meta the macro set),
so errors and stack traces in macro-generated code point at the call site —
Clojure parity. The analyze recursion re-expands inner macros, so each level's
top form picks it up, matching the reference compiler. (meta (macroexpand-1
'(when x y))) now reports the call-site line.
A direct-link fn defined through a user macro (build-app's defguarded) registers
with a real line, so build-smoke's trace assertion covers macro-defined fns.
Runtime .ss (host-contract.ss) — no re-mint; selfhost holds.
Phase 3's optional items are deferred: :line-in-ex-data has no clean consumer
(it would pollute ex-data, break = and printing, and positions already surface
via the trace + top-level location), and Chez source-object emission is a large
backend change the jv$-name registry already sidesteps.
* Review fixes: registration key, thread-locals, debug flag timing
- Register a fn under the name Chez actually reports for its frame, not the def
name: a named fn literal whose name differs from the def (def foo (fn bar …))
is framed as 'bar', and an anonymous fn def (def foo (fn …)) as jv$ns$foo.
Both previously registered under the def name and so never appeared in traces.
- rdr-source-file / rdr-pos-cursor are thread parameters, so concurrent compiles
(futures, core.async) don't clobber each other's file/line attribution.
- Read JOLT_DEBUG_FRAMES at call time: a built binary evaluates top-level forms
at heap-build time, where a load-time getenv is always unset.
Re-mint (backend + reader); prelude byte-identical, selfhost holds.
---------
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
Finishes core.match — its full test suite (115/115) now passes, including the
two patterns the earlier work left out:
- Regex-literal patterns. A #"…" now reads as a regex VALUE (Clojure parity: the
reader constructs the Pattern, so a macro receives a regex, not jolt's tagged
form), and the analyzer compiles a regex value to the same :regex IR leaf via
its source. emit-quoted handles a quoted regex; a regex value carries the
java.util.regex.Pattern host tag so extend-protocol/instance? dispatch on it.
- Primitive-array patterns. A ^Type hint's :tag is now the SYMBOL (e.g. `ints`),
matching the JVM, so core.match's array-tag lookup engages the array
specialization (alength/aget). jolt's :tag consumers already tolerate a symbol
(hc-cell-num-ret normalizes; tag->nkind/def-meta handle both).
Also: a library-conformance directive in CLAUDE.md, and the supported-libraries
list (docs + site) simplified to one-line entries — a listed library is assumed
to work fully, so no tallies or feature enumerations. core.match + transit-jolt
added to the list.
Seed change (reader/backend/30-macros) -> re-minted; the rest runtime. JVM-
certified corpus rows; the stale `symbol hint -> :tag` divergence is dropped from
the allowlist (jolt now matches the JVM). make test + shakesmoke green.
Running clojure.core.match (a macro-heavy library that builds its compiler out
of deftypes implementing clojure.lang interfaces) shook out a cluster of general
gaps. Its own suite goes from not-loading to 111/115 assertions.
- deftype/defrecord implementing a clojure.lang collection interface now drives
the core fns: Indexed -> nth, Counted -> count, Associative -> assoc, ILookup
-> get/valAt (non-field keys only, so a method's own field bindings don't
recurse), ISeq -> seq/first/rest, IPersistentCollection -> conj, IFn -> the
value is callable. A jrec is still a map of fields by default; the interface
method wins when declared.
- Multi-arity inline methods are grouped into one fn (a type with (nth [_ i]) and
(nth [_ i x]) kept only the last before). Built as data, not a nested
syntax-quote, so a `(= ~ocr ~l) method body keeps its unquotes.
- instance?/satisfies? recognize a protocol a type implements, including a MARKER
protocol with no methods (core.match's IPseudoPattern) — deftype/defrecord now
record protocol satisfaction even with zero methods. Added ILookup/Indexed/
Counted to the instance? taxonomy for the built-in collections.
- Syntax-quote: a fully-qualified class name (clojure.lang.ILookup) stays bare
instead of being namespace-qualified; (unquote x) is detected in a lazy seq
(a macro that builds its template with map, e.g. deftype's rewrite-set).
- clojure.set union/intersection/difference are variadic (& sets) + union 0-arity.
- java map view methods: keySet/values/entrySet/size/isEmpty.
- deprecated java.util.Date getters (getYear/getMonth/...) + the multi-arg
(Date. year-1900 month0 date hrs min) constructor.
Seed change (deftype/defrecord macros + clojure.set) -> re-minted; the rest are
runtime. 11 JVM-certified corpus rows; make test + shakesmoke green.
Shaking out tick's api and alpha.interval suites (api 353->359, interval
0->103 passing) cleared a set of general gaps:
- Named-zone DST. Zones resolved to a fixed representative offset, so
America/New_York in August read -05:00 not -04:00. Add US/EU DST rules
(compact transition-date math) and make instant<->zoned, the zone rules'
getOffset, and the zoned equality arm DST-aware.
- Nanosecond zoned/offset times. Instant is nanos but atZone/atOffset/
toInstant/withZoneSameInstant and Instant/parse went through epoch-ms,
truncating sub-ms. Route them through nanos.
- Locale month/day names. A formatter dropped its Locale; carry it and add
French names so MMM under Locale/FRENCH renders "mai".
- Callable records. A defrecord implementing clojure.lang.IFn (tick's
GeneralRelation) is now invokable: jolt-invoke dispatches to its inline
invoke method. Also give collections the Iterable host tag so a protocol
extended to Iterable matches vectors/seqs.
- Imported class short names. (:import [java.time ZonedDateTime]) then
(. ZonedDateTime parse s) resolved to nil; an otherwise-unresolved bare
Capitalized name that's a registered host class now resolves as a class.
- Data readers. A project's data_readers.{clj,cljc} is loaded into
*data-readers* (reader namespaces required eagerly); registered #tag
literals in source rewrite to (reader-fn 'form). clojure.core/read-string
now applies #inst/#uuid/#"regex" and *data-readers* like Clojure.
- Duration/between accepts zoned/offset date-times.
All runtime shims, no re-mint. docs/libraries.md: tick full pass + aero.
A slash-free dotted symbol with a Capitalized final segment (java.util.Map,
clojure.lang.Named, java.time.Instant) now self-evaluates to its name string
instead of resolving to nil — jolt models a class as its name, so a library
can extend a protocol to, or instance?-check, a host class jolt has no shim
for. hc-resolve-global classifies these as :class; the analyzer emits a const.
extends? now matches when either the query or the registered tag is a dotted
suffix of the other, so (extends? P java.util.Collection) finds the impl
extend registered under the canonical short tag.
Add DateTimeFormatter/ISO_INSTANT (UTC, trailing Z).
These unblock loading clojure.data.json, which dispatches JSONWriter on
java.util.Map/Collection/CharSequence/Instant and defaults a formatter to
ISO_INSTANT.
The reader lowered ^meta on a vector/map/set literal to a runtime
(with-meta form meta) list, so read-string/edn of data with metadata
returned the form and lost the metadata. Attach it to the value instead,
as Clojure does; the analyzer re-emits (with-meta coll meta) for a
meta-carrying collection literal in code, so a literal still carries its
metadata at runtime and ^Type/^long arglist hints (consumed by
analyze-arity directly) are unaffected.
Also: pr honors *print-meta*, and clojure.walk/clojure.edn re-attach
metadata to the collections they rebuild (matches Clojure; a
metadata-driven config lib like aero relies on it).
jolt.passes.inline was fully written but dormant — it fetched bodies via the
inline-ir host hook, which was a stub returning nil. Wire it up: run-passes stashes
each inline-eligible defn (single fixed arity) as its form is optimized, and
inline-ir hands the body back at call sites under --opt.
The catch was the ^double/^long coercion: an inlined fn drops its param-entry and
return coercion, so (work 3 4) on a ^double fn would return 25 instead of 25.0. New
:coerce IR node carries the coercion inside the spliced body — the inline pass wraps
a hinted param's arg and the return in :coerce, the back end lowers it
(exact->inexact / jolt->fx), and jolt.passes.numeric reads its :kind. So an inlined
call matches the called one and the body's fl*/fx* fast path still fires.
Only under --opt (closed world); the seed mint and -e don't inline, so selfhost and
the corpus are unaffected. test/chez/inline-test.ss 12/12 (make inline); full make
test green, 0 new corpus divergences.
Bench (hot loop, body is a ^double helper call): direct-link 500ms -> --opt
(inlined) 184ms = 2.7x, by eliminating the call + coercion wrappers and letting Chez
fuse the fl-ops unboxed. ~26x over the default dispatched build.
A ^double/^long return hint on a fn's name now (a) coerces the fn's value on the
way out — exact->inexact / jolt->fx, like a JVM primitive return — and (b) types a
call to it, so an accumulator over the result specializes:
(defn ^double work [^double x ^double y] (+ (* x x) (* y y)))
(loop [acc 0.0] (recur (+ acc (work a b)))) ; (+ acc (work ..)) -> fl+
The analyzer pushes the name's numeric tag onto each arity (:ret-nhint) for the
back-end coercion, and resolve-global surfaces the callee's declared return
(:num-ret, read from var meta) onto the :var node so jolt.passes.numeric types the
call. defn carries the name hint through.
This unblocks the accumulator-over-fn-result pattern that round 2 had to demote.
The win is bounded by call overhead in an open/dispatched build (~1.15x on a hot
loop whose body is a helper call); it compounds with direct-linking and, later,
inlining. A numeric return hint is a contract, like ^long — redefining the var to
return another type in an open build breaks it.
Not yet: per-arity arglist return hints, (defn f (^double [x] ..)). Gate:
test/chez/numeric-test.ss 39/39; full make test green, 0 new corpus divergences.
Wire the optimization gate to build mode. inline-enabled? (which gates the
inference + flatten-lets + scalar-replace passes in jolt.passes/run-passes) was
hardwired off, so those passes had never run on Chez at all. host-contract now
exposes a settable hc-optimize? flag; `jolt build --opt` flips it on during app
emission.
Kept off for the default release build for now: the passes are sound by design
(RFC 0005/0006) but unexercised on Chez, so release stays on the proven
var-deref codegen until they're validated against the corpus. --opt is the
opt-in fast path. buildsmoke checks both modes produce the same result.
This does not yet deliver direct call binding — the backend has no direct-link
emission path (every :var call still routes through jolt-invoke/var-deref) and
the inline-ir host stash is still a stub. Those are the remaining stage-4 levers.
Rename src/jolt -> stdlib (the runtime-loaded layer; jolt-core stays the
seed-baked layer) and update the loader / emit-image / doc paths. Drop dead
code: the spike/ experiments, the duplicate clojuredocs-export.edn (json moves
to tools/), the Janet-era jolt.http binding, and the orphaned
persistent_vector.clj whose ns/path didn't even match.
Strip porting residue from comments and docstrings across host/chez, jolt-core,
stdlib, tests, and docs: internal issue ids, "Phase N" markers, and the "vs
Janet" historical exposition, leaving present-tense descriptions and the real
JVM-Clojure semantic contrasts. Same pass over the corpus suite labels. The seed
is unchanged (docstrings/comments aren't emitted), so the self-host fixpoint and
corpus are untouched.
Port tools/spec_coverage.py off the dead janet probe to bin/joltc and regenerate
coverage.md; drop the dead :host/janet rule from certify.clj and regenerate the
conformance profile. Add docs/host-interop.md (the JVM shims and how to register
your own host class from a library) and a writing-style note in CLAUDE.md.
Stabilize the four racy concurrency corpus cases (future-cancel and agent
send/send-off): give the future a sleeping body and the agent a slow action, so
cancel reliably catches an in-flight future and deref reliably reads the
pre-update snapshot. They certify deterministically now, so drop their :flaky
allowlist entries and the orphaned legend.
Three related namespace-resolution fixes surfaced porting the clojure.tools.logging
library, all general:
- chez-register-spec! treats a :use :only vector like :require :refer, so a
(:use [ns :only [names]]) clause actually brings those names in. Before, a bare
reference to an :only'd name resolved to nil.
- syntax-quote (hc-sq-symbol) qualifies a referred name to its SOURCE namespace,
not the compile namespace — so a macro that syntax-quotes a referred var (e.g.
clojure.tools.logging/spy reaching clojure.pprint's pprint) expands correctly.
- resolve consults :as aliases and :refers like ns-resolve does; (resolve
'alias/name) was returning nil because the alias wasn't expanded.
Shaking the ring-app example's real library stack out against jolt surfaced a
batch of divergences from JVM Clojure, the biggest being evaluation order.
backend_scheme: call and recur arguments were emitted as bare Scheme operands,
so Chez's unspecified (right-to-left) order won out. Clojure evaluates left to
right, which selmer's reader loop relies on: (recur (add-node ... rdr) (read-char
rdr)) consumed a char early and dropped the first chars of every {{tag}}. Bind
operands to fresh temps in a let* (only when two or more can have side effects,
so hot calls over locals/consts stay un-wrapped). emit-ordered already did this
for collection literals; generalize it.
host-contract: syntax-quote now resolves the alias part of a qualified symbol
(impl/foo -> clojure.tools.logging.impl/foo) instead of leaving it bare, which
limped along via short-name matching until two loaded namespaces (reitit.impl,
clojure.tools.logging.impl) shared the short name and it broke.
collections: key-hash masks with bitwise-and, not fxand — jolt-hash is set!-
decorated per type (records return their own hash) and Chez's equal-hash can be a
bignum, so a key's hash isn't always a fixnum.
seq: even?/odd? handle bignums (JVM accepts any integer; the fxand crashed).
records: Keyword/Symbol .sym/.getName/.toString (honeysql's :clj branch reads
(.sym k)); Throwable .getMessage/.toString over a Chez condition.
host-static: __register-class-ctor!/__register-class-statics! so a host shim
(reitit.trie-jolt) can mirror a Java class.
natives-str: String.intern returns the string.
sqlite: jdbc.core fetch/fetch-one kebab-case column keys (the jolt-lang/db
convention; created_at -> :created-at).
io: a relative io/file path resolves against JOLT_PWD (the user's cwd), not the
repo root the launcher cd'd to — matches JVM cwd semantics, so config.edn loads.
cli: render an uncaught jolt throw (ex-info message + ex-data, or a condition)
instead of Chez's opaque "non-condition value" dump.
bigdec / 1.5M / 0.0M silently produced doubles. Add a jbigdec value type
{unscaled, scale} over Chez exact integers (host/chez/bigdec.ss): value =
unscaled * 10^-scale. An M-suffix literal reads to a :bigdec form that the back
end lowers to jolt-bigdec-from-string (same IR-leaf path as #inst/#uuid); bigdec
coerces a number/string. Equality is by value (1.0M = 1.00M true, 3M = 3 false),
str drops the M and pr keeps it, class is java.math.BigDecimal, decimal? is true.
Arithmetic contagion isn't modelled (out of scope). The old corpus cases passed
spuriously as doubles; they now exercise a genuine BigDecimal.
A macro like (defmacro cur-ns [] `(str ~*ns*)) splices the live *ns* value
into its expansion, leaving an opaque jns object as a list element. The
analyzer had no way to carry a runtime value and threw uncompilable — the last
remaining corpus crash. Recognize a jns via the host contract (form-ns-value?)
and emit a :the-ns leaf that reconstructs it by name (intern-ns!) at the call
site, the same IR-leaf pattern as regex/inst/uuid. Closes unquote-*ns*-in-
template; corpus crash count -> 0.
A namespace fast path rather than a general constant pool: it's the only
embedded-value case in the corpus and the common real-world one (libs splice
~*ns*). A general pool can come later if other value types appear.
A macro that syntax-quoted interop — `(.. (StringBuilder.) (.append x)) — had
its .method / Class. / .-field heads qualified to the compile ns (user/.append,
user/StringBuilder.), so they read as 'Unknown class user' at expansion. Like
Clojure, leave interop-head symbols bare in syntax-quote. Fixes any macro
templating interop, not just the one corpus case. Corpus 2694->2695.
The . special form rejected a non-symbol member; a keyword member now lowers to
an invoke of the keyword on the target ((. {:value 41} :value) => 41, as on the
JVM). Added a form-keyword? contract seam. Corpus 2692->2693. Re-minted.
(.. x m ...) failed: the analyzer classified the .. head as a .method interop
call (method-head? matched any "."-prefixed name) and form-special?
(hc-interop-head?) also flagged it, so it never reached the macro check. Exclude
".." from both (the char after "." being "." means the threading macro, not
.method). Corpus 2690->2691. Re-minted.
Rephrase comments that pointed at deleted Janet files (emit.janet, the seed
sources, 'the Janet back end punts ...') to present-tense descriptions of the
Chez behavior. Comment/docstring-only; the self-host fixpoint is unchanged
(comments don't affect the compiled seed).
Delete five files that were Janet-host shims with no Chez path: clojure.java.io
(provided natively by host/chez/io.ss), and jolt.{nrepl,png,interop,shell}
(the janet.* bridge, os/shell, janet.net — none exist on Chez).
jolt-cf1q.6
hc-list? required cseq-list? (a reader-built list), so a form built at runtime via
concat/map/cons — a lazy cseq with list?=#f — was rejected as "unsupported form".
In Clojure any seq is a valid call form, so accept any cseq. Lights up macros that
build their expansion with concat/list and (eval seq-form).
zero-Janet 2692->2694, 0 new divergences; self-host + Janet gate + JVM cert green.
jolt-cf1q.7
The compiler image is already resident at runtime on the Chez spine, so eval
and load-string are just wiring: make them clojure.core functions instead of
analyzer special forms.
- eval / load-string are now functions, not special forms. Dropped "eval" from
the host-contract special-symbol lists so it resolves as an ordinary var, and
def-var! both in compile-eval.ss. eval takes an already-read form (e.g. from
quote/list) and compiles+evals it in the current ns; load-string reads every
form from a source string and evals each, returning the last.
- Runtime defmacro: jolt-compile-eval-form intercepts a (defmacro ...) form
before analysis, defs the expander fn + mark-macro!s the var, exactly as
emit-image.ss does at build time. The two helpers (macro-form? / defmacro->fn)
move to compile-eval.ss and emit-image.ss reuses them.
- Top-level (do ...) is now unrolled form-by-form, like Clojure, so a defmacro
or def in an earlier subform is visible (macro flag set / var interned) before
a later subform is analyzed. This is what makes multi-form -e with a macro work.
Seed is byte-identical (no source references eval), so no re-mint; bootstrap-test
still passes. Zero-Janet corpus 2534 -> 2544 (eval/load-string cases now run),
0 new divergences; floor raised. Prelude corpus, JVM cert, full Janet gate green.
jolt-r8ku
(require '[clojure.string :refer [blank?]]) then an unqualified blank? now
resolves. chez-register-spec! registers :refer names (in addition to :as) into a
refer table; hc-resolve-cell's unqualified branch consults it before clojure.core.
Zero-Janet corpus parity 2293 -> 2295 = the Janet-hosted oracle's exact pass
count. The self-hosted Chez compiler (read -> analyze -> emit -> eval, no Janet)
now compiles every corpus case the Janet-hosted compiler does, with 0
divergences. Remaining failures are shared runtime breadth (host interop,
futures, runtime eval) deferred to Phase 4 / jolt-r8ku. Floor 2295.
(require '[clojure.string :as s]) then s/foo crashed "Unknown class s": the
Chez analyzer resolved a qualified symbol's ns literally, and there was no
alias table (ns.ss jolt-ns-aliases was a stub, require a no-op). Add an alias
table + chez-register-spec! (parses [ns :as a]) in ns.ss; hc-resolve-cell now
resolves a qualified ns through it; compile-eval pre-registers a form's
require/use :as aliases before analysis (analysis precedes the runtime require,
so the runtime require staying a no-op is fine). The batched gate runner clears
the alias table between cases.
Zero-Janet corpus parity 2159 -> 2240, 0 divergences. spine-test 35/35.
Point the Chez-HOSTED analyzer at the full parity corpus (read -> analyze ->
emit -> eval, all on Chez, no Janet) and close the divergences so the
self-hosted compiler is faithful: 0 divergences, 2159/2494 pass.
Keystone: the on-Chez emitter ran with prelude-mode off, so every call to a
non-native clojure.core fn tripped the "unsupported stdlib fn" out-of-subset
guard. The zero-Janet spine always has the full prelude loaded, so turn
prelude mode on in compile-eval.ss (22% -> 84% pass on a sample).
Faithfulness fixes (each was the Chez host/reader diverging from the Janet
analyzer; fixed in the keeper, not the seed):
- emit-const read a char's codepoint via (get v :ch) — the Janet rep; on Chez a
char is native. Route through a new form-char-code host-contract fn (41 cases).
- next over a lazy seq returned the empty-list terminator (truthy), not nil, so
butlast and other (if (next s) ...) loops ran one step too far — broke
some->/some->>/cond->>.
- reader: radix literals (2r1010/16rFF/36rZ), #^ deprecated metadata, ^meta on
collections (lowers to a runtime with-meta form like the Janet reader),
map-literal source order (values eval left-to-right), and nested syntax-quote
over a literal collapses at read time.
- keyword "a/b" splits into ns/name like the seed (destructure {:keys [x/y]}).
- form-syntax-quote-lower implemented on Chez (was a throwing stub).
7 divergences allowlisted: the same print-method-multimethod / host-class set
the prelude gate defers. 328 crashes remain = shared runtime breadth (host
interop, missing core fns, eval/load-string) deferred to Phase 4 / jolt-r8ku,
not compiler faithfulness.
Gate + speedup: test/chez/run-corpus-zero-janet.janet (floor 2159). Its batched
runner (driver/eval-corpus-zero-janet) runs every case in ONE chez process —
load the runtime once, guard + reset the user namespace per case — instead of a
fresh process per case: 1379s -> 1.6s.
spine-test 35/35; Janet gate 151/0; prelude parity 2295/2494 unchanged, 0 new
divergences.
The on-Chez analyzer (inc6a) skipped macros, so let/when/->/defn didn't
expand from source. Each core/stdlib defmacro now emits into the prelude as
(def-var! ns name <expander fn>) + (mark-macro! ns name); form-macro?/
form-expand-1 on Chez look up the macro flag (rt.ss var-macro-table) and
apply the expander to the unevaluated arg forms, and the analyzer re-analyzes
the result. The expander's syntax-quote template was lowered to construction
code at cross-compile time, so it builds the expansion via __sqcat/__sqvec/
__sqmap/__sqset/__sq1 (new host/chez/syntax-quote.ss) as Chez reader forms.
Emit the bare (fn ...), not (def NAME (fn ...)): analyzing a def would
host-intern! NAME as a non-macro stub in the build ctx, and that stub makes a
later (require '[stdlib-ns]) skip loading the real macro — with-pprint-dispatch
then resolved as a fn and returned its unexpanded template. Wrapping the
lambda in def-var! manually never interns NAME. Fuller build-ctx isolation
(so stdlib cases pass instead of crash) tracked in jolt-lpvi.
__sqset builds a real set VALUE, not the reader's tagged-set form — a runtime
`#{~@xs} must be a set, not a map. form-set? additionally recognizes a pset so
a macro template's #{...} expansion still re-analyzes as a set literal.
spine-test 35/35 (20 macro cases: when/when-not/let/->/->>/and/or/cond/if-not/
defn run zero-Janet from source). Prelude parity 2280->2295, 0 new divergences.
Full Janet gate green.
Cross-compile jolt.ir + jolt.analyzer + jolt.backend-scheme to Scheme def-var!
forms via the existing Janet emit pipeline (driver/emit-compiler-image) and run
them ON CHEZ over a Scheme jolt.host impl. A macro-free Clojure expression now
compiles and runs with no Janet in the loop: read (reader.ss) -> analyze
(jolt.analyzer on Chez) -> IR -> emit (jolt.backend-scheme on Chez) -> eval.
host/chez/host-contract.ss is the jolt.host contract on Chez (the portable seam
the cross-compiled analyzer/emitter call): form-* over the Chez reader's forms,
resolve-global/compile-ns/host-intern!/late-bind? over the var-cell registry. ctx
is an opaque record carrying the compile ns. Native-op names are declare-var!'d
into clojure.core so +, *, <, ... classify as :var and the emitter's native-op
path lowers them. form-macro? is a #f stub and macro expansion / syntax-quote /
record hints are stubs for inc6b (runtime macros, jolt-r8ku).
host/chez/compile-eval.ss is the spine entry (read-string -> analyze -> emit ->
eval). driver gains emit-compiler-image / ensure-compiler-image (image caching)
and program-zero-janet / eval-zero-janet.
Two bugs fixed in the keeper, not reproduced:
- the Chez reader stores an unqualified symbol's ns as #f, but the analyzer tests
(nil? ns); hc-sym-ns normalizes #f/'() -> jolt-nil. Without it every handled
special (if/do/fn*) misanalyzed as a plain invoke.
- char (int->char) was missing from clojure.core on Chez; the emitter's
chez-str-lit needs it for keyword/string consts. Added jolt-char to converters.ss.
Gate: test/chez/spine-test.janet 15/15 (Chez-hosted analyzer value == Janet-hosted
oracle through the same emitter/RT; only the analysis host differs). Full Janet
gate green (150 files). driver.janet is in the prelude fingerprint so the cache key
moved; prelude content is unchanged. jolt-chez fingerprint/ensure-prelude made
public for the test harness.
