Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Prompted by reading the std79-doe K report: checked whether the campaign's
"real cross-VM dispatch load" was actually concurrent or strictly
serialized. It's serialized at two levels -- VM-EXEC's vm_interpret(target,
...) is a direct synchronous C call (Hera fully blocked until it returns),
and even the background physics tick (vm_tick(), vm_runtime.c) is driven
by each VM's own execution loop, so idle identities accrue zero ticks
between their own turns. K's perfect conservation (FABRIC-3.md §XVIII)
verifies sequential per-VM accounting correctness, not concurrent-access
safety, since there was never concurrent access to test.
Agreed direction: fix this without a scheduler, by reusing the same
least-dense-candidate judgment stadium_admit() already trusts for
eviction, applied to "whose turn is next" instead of "who gets evicted" --
a fleet-level turn-attractor giving the next turn to whichever live
identity currently has the lowest execution_heat_q48, no fixed round-robin,
no priorities, no preemption. Lives beside Stadium in
capsule_vm_physics.c (already the fleet-level consumer of Stadium
primitives, e.g. the K mechanism itself), not inside stadium.c ("the
floor" -- residency/eviction, a different concern from turn order) and
not a new subsystem.
This pass lands only the primitive the mechanism needs: VM-HEAT
( c-addr u -- heat-q48 ), pushing a named VM's current
execution_heat_q48 via vm_physics_heat_of() -- previously C-internal
only (doe_log_heat_by_name(), doe_log.c), never exposed to FORTH. Silent
0 on an unknown/dead name (no print/error), since a turn-attractor
scanning many candidates every turn shouldn't have to filter console
noise for names that simply aren't live. Registered everywhere
VM-EXEC/VM-CALL already are. Builds clean on all three architectures;
live-tested on amd64: Hera -> 65452, Hermes -> 43, unknown name -> 0, no
faults.
The turn-attractor loop itself (std79-doe.fth's trial ordering) is not
yet built -- next step, not done here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
src/
Hosted StarForth VM implementation (compiled by the root Makefile).
Bare-metal kernel sources live in src/starkernel/; FORTH word
implementations in src/word_source/; the test harness in
src/test_runner/; platform shims in src/platform/.
Entry point / interpreter core
main.c— CLI entry point, VM init, DoE mode dispatch.vm.c— interpreter loop, stacks, dictionary state (the central runtime file).vm_api.c— external VM API implementation.vm_bootstrap.c— VM bootstrap initialization.vm_debug.c— debugging utilities.vm_time.c— time-related VM operations.vm_internal.h— internal-only declarations shared across thevm_*.cfiles, not part of the publicinclude/vm_api.hsurface.repl.c— REPL read-eval-print loop.cli.c— CLI argument parsing.io.c— I/O operations.log.c— logging infrastructure.
Memory / dictionary / blocks
memory_management.c— dictionary allocator.dictionary_management.c— dictionary allocation and search.dictionary_heat_optimization.c— Loop #1 execution-heat tracking.word_registry.c— word registration system.block_subsystem.c— logical→physical block mapper.blkio_file.c,blkio_ram.c,blkio_factory.c— block I/O backends (file-backed, RAM-backed) and the factory that selects between them.stack_management.c— stack operations.
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.c— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.c— Loop #1 hot-words caching.physics_metadata.c— per-word metadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.c— Loop #4 word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.c— execution instrumentation.rolling_window_of_truth.c— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer.inference_engine.c— Loops #5/#6, statistical inference (window-width, decay-slope).ssm_jacquard.c— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector; consumescompudynamics.cfor tuning-word/config lookups.compudynamics.c— generic compudynamics module (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()); the score/UCB/reward/weight constants for the L8 adaptive table live here, not inssm_jacquard.c.heartbeat_export.c— heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — seedocs/working/architecture/heartbeat_csv_export.md).
Math / measurement
math_portable.c— portable math functions.profiler.c— performance profiling.doe_metrics.c— Design of Experiments metrics (2^7 factorial).
Any .bak file alongside a .c file here (doe_metrics.c.bak,
inference_engine.c.bak, vm.c.bak) is a pre-edit backup left by a past
maintenance script (see scripts/remove_loop_conditionals.sh), not a
build input.