add-watch/remove-watch/set-validator!/get-validator were atom-only; the
atom ctor ignored :meta and :validator; watching a var crashed. Now the
ARef contract is one seam: atoms keep their record slots (hot path
unchanged), every other reference type registers a predicate and stores
watches/validators in identity-keyed side tables, and notifies at its
mutation points. Vars notify on root changes (def on a watched var,
var-set outside a thread binding, alter-var-root — thread-binding sets
don't notify, like the JVM); agents notify per action. The def-var! wrap
costs two weak-table probes per def and does IRef work only on a watched
var.
Ctor options follow ARef: the validator gates the initial value
(IllegalStateException 'Invalid reference state' — also the class for
rejected swap!/reset!), :meta must be a map (else ClassCastException),
nil allowed. meta reads any reference through the identity side-table
(the type-gated fall-through is gone); alter-meta!/reset-meta! work on
non-var references.
Runtime-only (no re-mint). 9 JVM-certified corpus rows; spec entry; cts
baseline 5781 -> 5805 pass, 73 baselined namespaces (the residual error
in the watch namespaces is their STM ref section — refs stay out of
scope).
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.
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
future/future-call run the body on a native thread (fork-thread) over the SAME
heap — JVM semantics, not Janet's isolated-heap snapshot. deref blocks on a
mutex+condition latch; timed (deref f ms val) uses an absolute deadline.
promise is a real blocking promise (deref parks until deliver), replacing the
Janet non-blocking atom shim. future?/future-done?/future-cancelled?/future-cancel
/realized? are native (the overlay versions read Janet map keys); re-asserted in
post-prelude over the overlay. pmap/pcalls/pvalues (overlay, over future) light
up for free.
Thread-safety this forces:
- atoms get a per-atom mutex; swap!/swap-vals! are a JVM-style CAS loop (f runs
outside the lock, so a watch/validator can deref the same atom); reset!/
compare-and-set! are atomic.
- the dynamic binding stack becomes a Chez thread-parameter, so each future/thread
has its own; Chez inherits it at fork, giving binding conveyance (the shim also
installs an explicit snapshot).
- Thread/sleep really sleeps now (a worker sleeping doesn't block the parent).
Re-minted the seed: future-call now resolves at compile time, so pmap compiles to
a var-deref instead of the host-static-call fallback that crashed. image.ss
unchanged.
Corpus: the 2 snapshot cases now match the JVM (shared) not Janet (isolated) —
allowlisted on both Chez gates; the two racy future-cancel cases allowlisted;
"promise undelivered" (blocks on JVM/Chez, profile :bucket :timeout) skipped like
:throws. Zero-Janet corpus 2544 -> 2569, 0 new divergences, floor raised. Full
Janet gate + JVM cert green.
jolt-byjr
The Chez atom record gains watches (an alist of key->fn) and validator
slots. swap!/reset! now validate the candidate value before storing and
notify watches after, in the seed's order (core_refs.janet) — the watch fn
is called (key ref old new). compare-and-set!/swap-vals!/reset-vals! route
through reset!/swap! so they validate + notify too.
add-watch/remove-watch/set-validator!/get-validator are native here and
re-asserted in post-prelude.ss: the clojure.core overlay implements them via
jolt.host/ref-put! on (get atom :watches), a Janet-table mutation a Chez atom
record can't answer, so its def-var! would otherwise clobber these. set-
validator! validates the current value immediately (Clojure throws if already
invalid).
Parity 2150 -> 2154, 0 new divergences. New test/chez/_atomwatch.janet 10/10.
The (class x) native and the clojure.walk port were explored this increment
but deferred: class alone makes the String-class-token corpus cases emit-and-
run with a wrong value (the bare token doesn't resolve yet) — filed jolt-13zk
to land the native together with token resolution; clojure.walk is blocked on
list? + map-entry-as-vector (jolt-75sv).
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.
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.
