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.
The ray tracer is compute-bound and the three existing benches only cover
alloc / megamorphic-dispatch / collections. Add three axes the epic needs to
judge itself holistically:
- mono-dispatch: monomorphic protocol dispatch. Its jolt/JVM ratio (~110x) is
*worse* than megamorphic (~76x) — the JVM inline-caches a runtime-monomorphic
call site to near-free while jolt does a full registry dispatch (devirt only
fires on statically-proven receivers). Points at the call-site inline cache.
- mandelbrot: pure float compute, no alloc/dispatch. The floor at ~15x — native
arith already gets close to the JVM.
- fib: recursion, call + integer-arith overhead.
run.sh gains JVM=1, which runs each bench on JVM Clojure too and prints the
jolt/JVM ratio. collections sized up now that the map is a HAMT (jolt-684u).
README documents the axes and the current scorecard.
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>