The dominant prelude-parity crash bucket was 'apply non-procedure jolt-nil':
core fns calling seed-native seq fns (core_coll.janet) that have no Chez RT
shim, so var-deref returns jolt-nil. A static scan of the assembled prelude
turned up 52 referenced-but-undefined clojure.core names.
host/chez/natives-seq.ss shims the safe seq fns over the existing seq layer:
mapcat, take-while, drop-while, partition (collection arities only — the 1-arg
transducer forms are jolt-kxsr), and sort (compare default; a comparator may
return a 3-way number or a boolean less-than). reduced/reduced? is a jolt-reduced
record in seq.ss that reduce short-circuits on and deref unwraps, so unreduced
works. identical? = jolt= (the seed's definition).
Deferred list?: a Chez lazy seq and a list are both cseq, so it can't be told
apart without a distinct list type — a real divergence risk.
Parity 1407 -> 1467/2497, 0 new divergences. emit-test 263/263.
##Inf/##-Inf/##NaN were emitted to bare inf/-inf/nan, which are unbound symbols in
Chez. emit-const now lowers them to +inf.0/-inf.0/+nan.0. The -e/element printer
renders them inf/-inf/nan (Chez's number->string gives +inf.0), and str renders the
long Clojure forms Infinity/-Infinity/NaN. assoc! is now variadic ((assoc! t k v
& kvs)) like Clojure.
Prelude parity 1382 -> 1407/2497, 0 new divergences. str of inf INSIDE a collection
still wants the long form (needs the Phase-2 recursive str renderer), so
[inf inside coll] is allowlisted. Transducer arities and the cdr-on-()/\p{} regex
gaps are split out to jolt-kxsr/jolt-y1zq.
transient/persistent!/conj!/assoc!/dissoc!/disj!/pop! as copy-on-write over the
persistent collections (host/chez/transients.ss) — each op rebuilds the persistent
coll (no in-place perf) but the semantics match, so into/frequencies/group-by work.
Adds persistent disj over pset-disj. get/count/contains? are redefined to see
through a transient (frequencies and group-by both do (get tm k) on a transient
map); vector? on a transient vector is false, which group-by relies on.
Prelude parity 1326 -> 1382/2497, 0 new divergences. emit-test exercises the direct
transient ops via run-prelude and the overlay users (frequencies/group-by/into)
end-to-end through the bin/jolt-chez -e binary.
str/subs/vec/keyword/symbol/compare/int/double/gensym — host-coupled seed natives
the overlay assumes, now def-var!'d into clojure.core via host/chez/converters.ss
(loaded last, str reuses jolt-pr-str). Semantics match the seed: str-render-one
for str (nil->"", bare chars, regex source), the 3-way core-compare port, int
truncates. The symbol no-ns sentinel is #f to match emit's quoted-symbol lowering
(jolt-symbol #f "x"), so (= 'x (symbol "x")) holds — jolt= compares ns with strict
equal?, and jolt-nil vs #f would otherwise diverge.
Prelude parity 1220 -> 1326/2497, 0 new divergences. Floor raised to 1326; three
newly-reached *ns*/var-rendering cases added to the allowlist (Phase 2). run-prelude
and the per-case program file are now PID-unique so concurrent chez runs don't read
each other's half-written files.
Emit every non-macro clojure.core form through the live analyzer -> Chez emit
pipeline as a def-var! prelude (prelude mode, tier dependency order), load it
before a user expression, and you get an -e-capable jolt-chez: analysis on Janet,
execution on Chez. driver/emit-core-prelude assembles it (each form behind a
silent load guard so the Phase-2 multimethod forms don't break the rest);
bin/jolt-chez is the -e CLI, caching the prelude on disk keyed by source hash.
run-corpus-prelude.janet is the full parity gate this opens, the prelude-backed
sibling of run-corpus-chez. First baseline: 1220/2497 evaluated cases pass, 0 new
divergences (10 allowlisted: dynamic vars, class names, eval-order — deferred
Phase 2). The rest is the punch-list: ~360 emit-fail (real host interop, out of
the analyzer subset) and ~900 runtime crashes, mostly core fns calling
host-coupled seed natives with no Chez shim yet (str/format/vec, transients).
Follow-ups jolt-t6cr/kl2l/q3w8/9ls5.
Two shims landed to get the prelude to load and run. atoms.ss: atom/deref/swap!/
reset! (+ the compare/vals kernel) — needed at load time for
global-hierarchy = (atom (make-hierarchy)). predicates.ss: the type predicates +
name/namespace/boolean the overlay assumes are seed natives, matching the seed's
strict semantics. post-prelude.ss re-asserts char?/atom? after the prelude: the
overlay implements those by reading :jolt/type, which is false for Chez-native
chars/atoms, so its def-var! would clobber the correct native versions.
Per-case Scheme files are PID-unique so a foreground -e never reads a half-written
file while the gate runs.
