Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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- Dictionary lookup index is per VM (vm->fc_index, struct SfFcIndex): was one global index rebuilt whenever a different VM was searched, and heat reorganization could reorder another VM's buckets. Allocated on first lookup, freed by vm_cleanup(); allocation failure counted/logged, lookup falls back to a newest-first dictionary walk. - PRNG: still one stream, stepped by compare-and-swap; SEED one store. - state_variable removed (write-only; STATE is vm->mode). - Sweep additions (Captain Bob's ruling): heartbeat_export.c delta last-values moved into each VM's HeartbeatState (were statics shared by every VM -- wrong across VMs today); TOP-WORDS list heap-sized per call (was static [1000]); inference_outputs_to_string() takes a caller buffer; three failure counters atomic; crc64 table published with release/acquire. - Confirmed, unchanged: g_runtime compiled out of the kernel, g_hotwords_cache unreferenced, ttf cache core-0-only. - Probe (removed): every VM has its own index; two VMs searched alternately 2x5000 lookups: 0 rebuilds, 0 wrong-VM results, all three ISAs. - Standard sequence on amd64/aarch64/riscv64: dict_hash set unchanged, G byte-identical, MINT/WIREBIND/USE ok, conservation true, 0 idle growth. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
include/
Public headers for the hosted StarForth VM (src/). Kernel-only headers
live under include/starkernel/.
Core VM
vm.h— theVMstruct and all core types (DictEntry,DictPhysics, stacks, dictionary state); the central header most other files include.vm_api.h— external VM API surface.vm_host.h,vm_debug.h,startup.h,version.h— host integration, debug utilities, startup sequencing, version string.cli.h,repl.h,io.h,log.h— CLI parsing, REPL loop, I/O, logging.word_registry.h— word registration system shared by everysrc/word_source/*.cfile.compudynamics.h— the generic compudynamics module: tuning-word/config lookups (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()) consumed byssm_jacquard.c.
Memory / blocks
memory_management.h,dictionary_management.h— dictionary allocator and search.block_subsystem.h,blkcfg.h,blkio.h,blkio_factory.h— logical→ physical block mapper and pluggable block I/O backends (file/RAM).platform_alloc.h,platform_lock.h,platform_time.h— platform abstraction shims (hosted vs. kernel allocation/locking/timing).
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.h— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.h— Loop #1, execution-heat hot-words cache.physics_metadata.h— per-wordDictPhysicsmetadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.h— Loop #4, word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.h— execution instrumentation hook points.rolling_window_of_truth.h,rolling_window_knobs.h— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer and its tuning knobs.inference_engine.h— Loops #5/#6, window-width and decay-slope statistical inference.dictionary_heat_optimization.h— Loop #1 heat counters.ssm_jacquard.h— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector.doe_metrics.h— Design of Experiments (2^7 factorial) metrics.profiler.h— performance profiling hooks.
Arithmetic / codegen
q48_16.h— Q48.16 deterministic fixed-point arithmetic (used instead of IEEE-754 float specifically to keep cross-architecture behavior bit-identical).math_portable.h— portable math helpers.arch_detect.h,starforth_config.h— architecture detection and the build-flag fallback-default layer (used when a.cfile is compiled by hand withoutmake).vm_asm_opt.h,vm_asm_opt_arm64.h,vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h,vm_inner_interp_asm.h,vm_inner_interp_arm64.h,vm_inner_interp_riscv64.h— per-architecture assembler-optimized inner interpreter (USE_ASM_OPT=1).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the bare-metal kernel headers.