The self-host byte-fixpoint (make selfhost) only holds on the Chez that minted
the seed — CI's Debian Chez emits byte-different output for some constructs
(isolated to the dedupe re-mint), so it failed there. The checked-in seed RUNS
correctly on any Chez, so CI now runs 'make ci' (corpus/unit/smoke/sci/certify);
'make test' keeps selfhost for local dev. Cross-version emit determinism tracked
in jolt-8479.
Chez derives its boot-file name from argv0, so a symlink named chez looks for a
nonexistent chez.boot (CI failed at the first gate step). Replace the symlink
with a wrapper that exec's scheme, preserving argv0 so the boot files resolve.
Rewrite the README, CLAUDE.md build/architecture sections, test/chez/README,
and conformance SPEC for the Janet-free world: bin/joltc + make test, the
self-hosting bootstrap, the frozen JVM-sourced corpus. CI installs Chez + JDK/
Clojure and runs 'make test' (was Janet/jpm).
jolt-cf1q.6
run-tests.janet runs the same file set as `jpm test` across a pool of worker
processes (one `janet FILE` each, ev-based). The full gate goes from ~790s
serial to ~98s here (8x), and more on CI where the heavy files don't thrash on
swap. CI and the docs point at it; `jpm test` still works serially.
Three things dominated the wall:
- Nine integration tests cold-built a compile ctx (~8s each); switch them to
api/init-cached so they share the prebuilt image. The cache key already
fingerprints the ctx-shaping env vars, so the direct-link ones share one DL
image and the rest share the plain one.
- core-bench's main ran on every gate (~35s of benchmark loops that assert
nothing); gate it behind JOLT_BENCH=1.
- cli-test spawned `janet src/jolt/main.janet` ~20 times at ~8s cold each
(340s under parallel load, and it was the whole wall); prefer build/jolt
(~20ms baked ctx) when present, fall back to from-source for an unbuilt tree.
type-check-test stays on cold init: a snapshot-loaded ctx loses the success
checker's op/msg detail (jolt-vley). jolt-pria tracks caching from-source
startup generally, which would let cli-test drop the build/jolt preference.
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
adds self-hosted compiler is functionally:
- The default compile path is the portable pipeline using jolt.analyzer (Clojure) → host-neutral IR → backend.janet.
- The analyzer is itself Clojure, compiled by jolt for true self-hosting.
- bootstrap-fixpoint passes (stage1 == stage2 == stage3): rebuilding the compiler on its own output.
- clojure.core is now self-hosted in the overlay.
- Stateful forms (defmacro/ns/deftype/defmulti/require/in-ns) are interpreted by design.
bootstrap.janet resolves jpm/cli.janet relative to cwd, so it must run
from /tmp/jpm rather than the repo root (fixes 'could not find file
jpm/cli.janet').
- .github/workflows/tests.yml: build Janet (cached) + jpm, init vendor/sci
submodule, run jpm test on every push and PR.
- README: explain the per-form eval router — interpreted (default) vs
compiled (:compile?), the always-interpret carve-out, and shared context.
