jolt/test/chez
Yogthos 43778eafd7 jolt build: compile an app to a standalone binary (Phase 4 stages 1-2)
Restores the standalone-binary capability the Janet host had. `bin/joltc build
-m NS -o OUT` AOT-compiles an app into a single self-contained executable — the
whole runtime, clojure.core, stdlib and compiler embedded, no Chez install or
jolt source needed at runtime.

Pipeline (host/chez/build.ss, host primitive jolt.host/build-binary driven by
jolt.main's build command): resolve deps, load the entry namespace recording the
app namespaces in dependency order, re-emit each to Scheme, textually inline the
cli.ss runtime load sequence into one flat source + the app + a launcher, then
compile-file -> make-boot-file -> embed the boot as C bytes -> cc-link against
libkernel.a.

Two non-obvious bits: the compile pass runs in a fresh Chez, not the loaded
runtime (regex.ss shadows top-level `error`, which otherwise bakes a broken
reference into the boot); and the launcher installs scheme-start rather than
running -main at top level, since boot top-level forms execute during heap build
before argv is set, so args only reach -main through scheme-start.

Loader: a require of an in-memory namespace with no source file now no-ops, so
AOT'd app namespaces satisfy require in a built binary.

Mode flags (--opt/--dev, default release) are plumbed; the optimization passes
they gate come in a later stage. RFC 0007 has the design. Gated by `make
buildsmoke`.
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build-app jolt build: compile an app to a standalone binary (Phase 4 stages 1-2) 2026-06-22 23:01:36 -04:00
bench-chez.ss Clean up codebase: rename stdlib layer, strip porting residue, fix tooling 2026-06-22 22:18:00 -04:00
corpus.edn Clean up codebase: rename stdlib layer, strip porting residue, fix tooling 2026-06-22 22:18:00 -04:00
ffi-binding-test.ss jolt.ffi: read-array/write-array for binary-faithful buffer I/O 2026-06-22 13:11:08 -04:00
README.md Docs: Chez-only, drop the Janet-era references and obsolete migration notes 2026-06-22 09:05:35 -04:00
transient-test.ss Clean up codebase: rename stdlib layer, strip porting residue, fix tooling 2026-06-22 22:18:00 -04:00
unit.edn Real nREPL interrupt + thread-local *ns* (jolt-amzy, jolt-6rld) 2026-06-22 18:57:16 -04:00
values-test.ss Clean up codebase: rename stdlib layer, strip porting residue, fix tooling 2026-06-22 22:18:00 -04:00

Chez test harness

The correctness gate for jolt. Pure Chez (+ Clojure for the JVM oracle). Correctness is judged against the JVM-sourced conformance spec; the spec itself lives in test/conformance/ (see its SPEC.md). Run the whole gate with make test from the repo root.

The spec corpus

corpus.edn is the contract: ~2920 rows {:suite :label :expected :actual}, with :expected sourced from reference JVM Clojure by test/conformance/regen-corpus.clj. It is frozen (the canonical source) — add or change cases here, then re-source the answers with regen-corpus.clj and re-certify with test/conformance/certify.clj.

The gate runners (host/chez/)

  • run-corpus.ss — runs every corpus case through the spine (read → analyze → IR → emit → eval, all on Chez), comparing each result by value-equality against the JVM :expected. A known-fail allowlist covers cases jolt can't match because Chez has no JVM host (Java classes, arrays, BigDecimal, opaque host-object printers, …); the gate fails only on a NEW divergence or if the pass count drops below the floor.

    chez --script host/chez/run-corpus.ss
    JOLT_CORPUS_LIMIT=200 …            # every-Nth stride, fast iteration
    JOLT_CHEZ_ZJ_FLOOR=N …            # override the floor (default 2678)
    
  • run-unit.ss — host-specific unit cases (test/chez/unit.edn) that aren't in the JVM-portable corpus: dot-forms, java statics, io, reader, walk, vars/namespaces, refs. Each :expr is evaluated in-process and its printed value compared to a baked :expected (:throws asserts a raise).

  • selfcheck.sh — self-host fixpoint: bootstrap.ss rebuild byte-equals the checked-in seed (host/chez/seed/).

  • smoke.sh — real bin/joltc -e CLI smoke.

Other Chez tests

  • values-test.ss — the value model (nil/truthiness/collections). make values.
  • bench-chez.ss — compute bench through the pipeline (opt-in; not in the gate).

All runners assume chez on PATH.