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* Lay Pure out as a core with the parts selected around iteunhhu2026-09-271-1820/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The app model, the tree store and the HTTP host lived in prototypes/connections among the earlier document runtime, the store was known only by its format's name, and Vega compiled six Pure sources by path. Now, as the README's principle has it: core/ runtime, flow and the app model (module*.c), with what the core asks of storage (state.h, store.h) store/ the tree store (PURETRE3, PUREREC1) serve/ pure-serve: HTTP host, outbound delivery, JSON in place cli/ pure-run, pure-edit-module A top-level make builds libpure.a (app model and store, for hosts to link) and the hosts; make check runs the store's and the app model's tests. The earlier runtime still builds from prototypes/connections against core/ and store/ (check, check-tree and check-core pass). Design 009 records the rule: parts by role behind libraries; git repositories split by coupling, so the store stays here while its contract moves with the core, and Vega stays apart.
* Look for new sends newest first, only as far back as they goeunhhu2026-09-271-10/+33
| | | | | | | | | After each save the owner walked the whole outbox to find the sends not yet queued, so a receiver long down made every save walk the backlog. pure_app_outbox_newest visits saved sends newest first, and the owner stops once every wired output reaches the number it queued last, then queues what it found in order.
* Make an API's answers the app's events (--reply OUTPUT=INPUT)eunhhu2026-09-271-11/+63
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The final answer to each send of a wired output (a 2xx, or a 4xx but 408 and 429) becomes a message event of the given input: fields from the answer's JSON object by name, other members skipped; a field the answer lacks from the send's field of that name and type, so the request's own id is there; a u32 http_status field is the status. It is applied with the send's number from the wire's source, before the send is trimmed and in the same save, so an answer that comes again after a restart (the API repeating itself for the Idempotency-Key) applies once. Sends that wait for answers go one per request; answers are saved with the next round, or at once when none waits. A server that writes an answer in pieces holds the second until the first is acknowledged, and a delayed acknowledgement stalled every answer 40 ms: the client now acknowledges at once (TCP_QUICKACK) after each read. Against a payments API that answers 200 or 402, with the sender killed (-9) midway, paid and declined orders matched the API's answers one to one.
* Read JSON messages in message-json.c, for requests and answers alikeeunhhu2026-09-271-220/+10
| | | | | | | | | The in-place JSON reader of pure-serve's request bodies moves into its own file with a small interface (pure_json_message, pure_json_fixed, pure_json_space), so the delivery client can read an API's answers with it. It gains a lenient mode for answers: a member that names no field is skipped, value and all. Requests read as before.
* Deliver to https receivers, verifying their certificates (083)eunhhu2026-09-271-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | A wire to an https:// URL speaks TLS 1.2 or later through OpenSSL: the receiver's certificate must chain to the system's CAs (or to the file --send-ca names) and name its host (SNI and SSL_set1_host, or the IP address). An untrusted receiver gets nothing: the send stays in the outbox, the wire logs it and tries again every 10 s. pure-serve now links libssl and libcrypto.
* Deliver an app's saved sends over HTTP, in order and in batches (083)eunhhu2026-09-271-30/+215
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pure-serve --send OUTPUT=http://host:port/path wires an output: after every save the owner queues the new sends as JSON (fields and groups) and a thread per output posts them in order with X-Pure-Source, X-Pure-Sequence and Idempotency-Key. A 2xx, or a Pure receiver's refusal, delivers; the owner then trims. 408, 429, 5xx and no answer are sent again after a pause growing to 10 s, other answers every 10 s: nothing is dropped. A Pure receiver applies a delivered message with pure_app_deliver (now taking placed fields) and advertises X-Pure-Batch: 256; the sender then posts up to that many numbers in a row as one JSON array (X-Pure-Count), applied in order in one burst with one save. Delivery kept up with orders once batched (391 deliveries/s one at a time; a backlog of 20,000 went at 60k/s). With four clients ordering, killing the receiver and then the sender (-9) left the receiver's count and total equal to what the sender saved, five times and under ASan.
* Send messages as part of events and apply delivered ones once (078)eunhhu2026-09-271-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An output (input kind 5) is a message the app sends; SEND (72) takes an output's field values in order in a handler, lays them out as a message's payload and keeps it, numbered per output from 1, with the event's changes: a failed event sent nothing, and a failed save takes back every send since the last save with its numbers. A host sees only saved sends (pure_app_outbox) and trims what its receiver has saved (pure_app_trim, gone with the next save). pure_app_deliver applies a message from a named source once: a number heard before succeeds without applying, a refused message counts as heard, a failed save forgets what it heard. Sends, numbers and heard numbers are the app's links state, stored whole in one runtime document (PLK1) with the states, in the same commit. Outputs follow their names across module changes; a module that drops or retypes an output with sends left is refused, and a dropped output's number is kept for when it returns. Killing the process at every commit stage leaves an event and its send, or a delivery and its effect, together or neither. pure-serve answers a post to an output or a timer with 404 no_input.
* Choose the connection threads with --threads autoeunhhu2026-09-271-1/+14
| | | | | | | | One connection thread for each CPU the process may run on (its affinity, or the online CPUs), less the one the owner of an app with states takes: three CPUs give two connection threads and the owner. The default stays one thread.
* Gather after a save until a just-answered client has come backeunhhu2026-09-271-3/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | After a round that saved, the owner waited for 100 us without a new request (1 ms at most) before the next round. Requests that queued up during the save made that quiet start at once, so the clients just answered missed the next round; the clients then settled into two halves taking turns, each save carrying half of them. It showed with two connection threads: 34 events a round and 15.8-16.0k posts/s with 64 connections, against about 61 and 22-24k/s with one or three. The quiet now counts only once a request has come after the answers were handed back: two threads carry 61.6 events a round, 22.9-23.9k/s.
* Read JSON bodies in place, groups included (082)eunhhu2026-09-271-59/+126
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pure-serve no longer copies a JSON body's strings into the message's payload. The ingress is the prefix, a table of each field's start and size, and the body as it came; the connection thread scans the body once, puts numbers into the prefix and records where each string is. Only a string with escapes is unescaped, over itself (it never grows). A group of fields comes as an object inside the body and, for a fixed field, as its path in the query (?to.zip=7). A group where a field belongs, a value where a group does, an array or true/false/null is json_type; an unknown member, inside a group too, json_field. The string scan and UTF-8 checks now pass over eight bytes at a time while none needs a look (pure_utf8_step, so every text check gains). On the Pi, posting {"name":"k","text":"x..."} to a stateless app went from 652-655 to 3,737-3,953 requests/s with 256 KiB of text (server CPU 1.52 to 0.25 ms a request, peak RSS 5.2 to 3.2-3.4 MiB) and from 29.1k to 76.3-76.7k/s with 4 KiB; the load generator gains a json method and benchmarks/http/echo.aup is the app.
* Show views from the last save's snapshot on connection threads (080)eunhhu2026-09-261-20/+92
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The owner publishes a snapshot of the saved states after every save, before it hands back the answers; connection threads take the newest one each round and show views from it with a reader app of their own. A read made after a write's answer sees the write, nothing unsaved or undone is ever shown, and reads no longer wait while the owner applies events or syncs. Apps with states always get an owner thread, even with one connection thread. A round's inputs go to the owner first; its views are shown and then answered together (answering each one as it was shown made one thread's 20-row page 8% slower). On the Pi 5, with 8 connections posting durable scores and 56 reading the total, reads went from 10-16k/s at p99 13-29 ms to 107-149k/s at p99 0.6-0.7 ms, and posts stayed in range; axum and drogon, which sync under their lock, read 1.1-1.3k/s at p99 111-156 ms. A snapshot of a changed 1,024-item list costs 1.2 us (65,536 items: 87 us) against a 3-4 ms save.
* Answer a round's reads before its writes on the ownereunhhu2026-09-261-10/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | With durable writes going on, a read waited for the save of the burst it landed in. A round's requests come from different connections, one request each at a time, so nothing orders them: the owner now applies a round's reads first and answers them at once, seeing only saved states, then its writes in bursts. 8 writers and 56 readers of the scoreboard, owner mode: reads 7,100-7,700 to 16,100-16,600 a second, their p99 55 to 13 ms, writes 1,000-1,100 to 2,300 a second. A single thread keeps the order: it waits out each save itself, and reads answered first come back first and split its next writes over more saves (the owner gathers after a save instead); there reads are 12,800-13,400 a second as before.
* Lend a text state's stored extents for its view (079)eunhhu2026-09-261-16/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | A view that shows a text state as it is (pure_module_text_state) now goes out as the state's stored extents, as a document read does: the answer holds the store mapping, charged to the budget, until it is sent and its ticket released; a state with edits not yet stored is copied as before. Documents and views share one loan path, and the extent array grows as needed. A 1 MiB note read by 8 connections: 776-817 answers a second copied, 1,875-1,901 lent, p50 9.2 to 3.5 ms, peak RSS 10.3 to 5.7 MiB. The load generator learns GET /views/page.
* Size a module's code and constants to the module; raise their limitseunhhu2026-09-261-8/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | A real app (a board, a stopwatch) already used a quarter of the 512 instructions, since a fn is inlined where it is called, and every text it shows is one of 64 constants. The code and the constants now live in one block sized to the module, which load takes and pure_module_release gives back; the limits rise to 65,535 instructions and 4,096 constants of up to 1 MiB, while PureModule shrinks from 28,664 to 11,936 bytes. The verifier's branch marks are sized to the block instead of 64 KiB on the stack. pure_module_read reads a module file whole, and every host uses it instead of a 128 KiB buffer.
* Tick a served app's timers and give its events the clockeunhhu2026-09-261-9/+61
| | | | | | | | | | pure-serve sets the time an event sees to the wall clock when the event is applied, and the thread that runs an app with states (the connection thread alone, or the owner) ticks its timers on time: epoll waits no longer than the next tick, the owner's condition wait is timed to it, and the ticks due at once share one save, so a restarted server goes on from the stored ticks. The statistics count ticks.
* Take messages of number and text fields, several variable ones, as JSONeunhhu2026-09-261-35/+251
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A message field is now a u32, a number (binary64), bytes or text, and variable fields may be several and anywhere: the payload's prefix holds the fixed fields and each variable field's length but the last one's, which takes the rest; a module whose one bytes field came last is laid out as before. On arrival a length past the payload, a text that is not UTF-8 or a number that is not finite fails the message. pure-serve fills an input's message from a JSON object body (Content-Type: application/json) on the connection thread before the request is ready, so the owner never parses and replies are still borrowed: the ingress is [u32 payload size][payload][the JSON as it came]. A missing, unknown, doubled or mistyped field, or text that is not JSON, answers 400 and the request never runs. Numbers may come in the query too.
* Serve an app with states from several connection threadseunhhu2026-09-261-99/+331
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | States have one owner, so a module with them ran on a single thread, which spent most of its time in the kernel sending and receiving. With --threads N such a module now gets N connection threads and one owner thread: connection threads accept, parse and answer; the owner takes the ready requests of every thread as one round, applies them in bursts with one save each and hands each thread back its applied requests (eventfd), which it completes and answers. A request's route and payload stay held by its thread's runtime core until completion, so an accepted event runs even when its connection closes first. After a burst that saved, the owner gathers requests until none has come for 100 µs (1 ms at most), so the requests its answers bring back share the next save as they would on one thread: 30 events per save became 50 and the median latency of a durable post fell from 5.4 to 3.5 ms. A page of 20 rows went from 87,600 to 141,900 answers a second on the Pi.
* Build a table's JSON page with fewer appendseunhhu2026-09-261-23/+27
| | | | | | | Each column's key is made once per request and a page's buffer is taken at once, instead of three small appends per cell. A POST with no payload (a key press) no longer copies nothing to a missing ingress.
* Serve an app's views and inputs over HTTPeunhhu2026-09-261-48/+346
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pure-serve answers GET /views/NAME with a view's value (a number or text as text/plain, a table as JSON rows, a page of them with ?from=&count=, each cell computed only for the rows asked) and POST /inputs/NAME with an event: a text input's text is the body, a key input is pressed, a message takes its u32 fields from the query and its bytes field from the body and answers its handler's reply. A failed event answers with its fault (404 not_found, 409 exists, 422 the others). No routes are written: the app's views and inputs are its interface. Documents stay served when the module has show and edit. The route of a request is kept per work slot, so an accepted event runs even if its connection closes before the burst; views and app events join any burst, whose one save comes before its answers.
* Charge lent answers to the payload budgeteunhhu2026-09-261-27/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | A read answered with extents of the store mapping was charged nothing, so clients that stopped reading could keep any number of old file versions mapped. The runtime core now takes resources a host sends in pieces: body.data is NULL, body.size is charged like any other resource, the outcome has no body to read and cannot be forwarded. pure-serve hands the mapping reference over as such a resource, so a lent answer holds its bytes of budget until it is in the socket and its ticket releases the mapping; past the budget a read gets 503 payload_budget, as a copied one would. The async core grows 52 bytes (5,776 of its 6,144).
* Count a connection's deadline from its last progresseunhhu2026-09-261-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | pure-serve renewed a connection's deadline when a request arrived or an answer finished, not while an answer was being sent, so a client that read a large answer steadily but slowly was cut off after ten seconds (a 1 MiB document over a 50 KB/s link never arrived). Every write that makes progress now renews it; only a stalled connection expires.
* Lend stored extents to reads instead of copying themeunhhu2026-09-261-28/+93
| | | | | | | | | | | | | A read of a stored document now answers with the store mapping's extents through writev, without copying the document. pure_draft_mapping takes a reference to the mapping a draft opened through a handle reads from; the answer keeps it until the last byte is sent, so the version read goes out intact even if the document changes or a compaction replaces the file meanwhile. Replies the mapping does not hold are copied as before. pure-serve's output is now a list of extents (the head first). One thread serves 2,761 1 MiB reads per second (axum: 1,380) and 128k small ones.
* Group the commits of concurrent threadseunhhu2026-09-261-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Threads that commit at the same time now share one commit: they queue, the first becomes the leader and publishes every queued request of the same store with one head, and the others wait for its result. Each request stays all or nothing on its own: one with a stale draft is left out, and so is one whose key an earlier request of the group changes. When several threads have been committing together, a leader waits up to 2 ms for as many to join as groups held lately; a single thread never waits. A test pauses a publication and checks that five commits make exactly two publications. Under eight writers on three pure-serve shards, 1,234 bursts went out in 421 publications. pure_store_group_counts reports the groups, and pure-serve prints them.
* Shard pure-serve across coreseunhhu2026-09-261-86/+155
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A burst now looks at the store once (pure_store_pin) instead of once per request; another shard's commit ends before its answer is sent, so a request made after that answer still reads it. With this alone one thread serves 125k small keep-alive reads per second, as many as axum on three cores, with a shorter p99. --threads N runs a shard per thread: its own SO_REUSEPORT listener, epoll set, runtime domain, app and store handle. Writer sessions of the tree store now take turns inside a process with a mutex (the file lock belongs to the process and does not keep threads apart), and revisions settle concurrent edits of a key. A module with states runs on one thread. Three shards serve 151k reads per second; they still commit one by one, so durable writes and 1 MiB reads are better on one thread for now, which stays the default. Note 075 records the numbers.
* Serve modules over persistent connectionseunhhu2026-09-261-0/+631
pure-serve replaces the module mode of server.c, which goes back to what it was. It keeps the document contract, the runtime core (a work slot per connection, the payload budget, core-owned ingress, borrowed PUT replies) and the group commits, and adds what server.c lacked: HTTP/1.1 persistent connections with in-order pipelining, an edge-triggered epoll owner thread, up to 1,024 connections allocated as they arrive and reused, one writev per answer, and documents opened through a store handle. On the Pi 5 with one thread it serves 106k small keep-alive reads per second (axum on three cores: 126k) at the same p99, 1,741 1 MiB reads (axum: 1,370), and 1,126 durable writes from 64 connections (crash-safe axum: 372), in 7.3 MiB against axum's 17-20 MiB. Note 075 has the table.