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* Give a compacted file the zeros of its whole cycle (085)eunhhu2026-09-275-3/+149
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commits grew the tree store's tail 256 KiB at a time, each growth a sync that also committed the ext4 journal for the new size and blocks. A file installed by compaction now carries written zeros up to where the next compaction will come (4 x live + slack, plus a commit's margin), capped at the size of the file it replaces, so a store never takes more space than before and shrinks when its live data does. The cycle's commits then only overwrite blocks the file has. Store commits: 317.5 -> 385.5 a second, ext4 journal commits 109 -> 45 for 4,000 commits; durable app posts +5.3%, their p99 the same within this SD card's noise. The new cycles test keeps sizes still between compactions once the live data is whole, and shows the file shrinking with it.
* Measure what moving saves off the owner would buy (084)eunhhu2026-09-272-0/+116
| | | | | | | | | | | | Nothing a thread can give: with writes saturated the device's one line of syncs is the bottleneck, so zeroing the tail or compacting on another thread only queues that device work behind the commits, and the owner's idle gap is shorter than one journal commit. Built without compaction the store is no faster; without compaction and without tail growth durable posts gain 1.4% and the p99 drops 24% (17.4 to 13.3 ms). New blocks are the tail latency, so the way to it is a store that rewrites its space in place, a ring cleaned forward instead of compacted into new files.
* Measure whether sharding owners by key would add writes (084)eunhhu2026-09-273-0/+380
| | | | | | | | | | | It would not, on this device. One file's syncs or four at once, the SD card completes the same 510-690 commits per second, the latency growing with the number of files. The scoreboard app with two owners, each with a store of its own, took 23% fewer durable posts than one owner (median 16,230 against 20,974 a second) with 2-3x the p99: syncs queue, and each carries half the events. One owner's group commit stays; cores serve reads, and writes grow by making the sync itself cheaper.
* Lay Pure out as a core with the parts selected around iteunhhu2026-09-273-12/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Write each commit's head just before its bytes: one range per sync (081)eunhhu2026-09-263-0/+324
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A tree store commit wrote its bytes over the written zeros of the tail and its head into a slot at the start of the file: two ranges, and on the Pi's SD card a sync of two ranges costs about twice one (2.4 ms against 1.2 ms). A commit now writes a 128-byte record (its head) at the published end and its bytes right after it, then syncs once. Every 16 commits the head also goes into the older slot. The newest commit is found from the newer slot's head, or from the newest head this process has seen in the file while its record is still there, along the records whose bytes are whole; a torn record or bytes end the walk at the commit before, which the next writer overwrites. Slots of this format are PURETRE3; files of the earlier one are read and continued. Store commits went from 220-233/s to 371-396/s (p50 2.5 to 1.3 ms), and the scoreboard's durable posts from 13-16k/s to 21-26k/s with 64 connections and from 2.2-2.4k/s to 2.9-3.9k/s with 8, measured alternately with the previous build. The torn head check now tears a slot (the walk goes on from the other) and the newest record (a new process sees the commit before); a new check walks 42 commits from the slots, in a fresh process too, and stops at a damaged record.
* Compare the HTTP host with drogon and by CPU timeeunhhu2026-09-262-0/+127
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A drogon 1.9 service with the axum baseline's contract joins the benchmark (memory, fdatasync and crash-safe modes, three IO threads), built from Debian's packages unpacked under .deps without installing them. drogon listens once per event loop, so the service picks a free port itself: with port 0 every loop got a port of its own and the load reached one. The load generator has one core and saturates near 150k answers a second, so the harness now also reports answers per second of server CPU time (all threads). Over three rotated rounds: small GETs 151.6k/s on three shards (drogon 145.3k, axum 120.9k) and 128k per CPU-second on one thread (drogon 65k, axum 62k); 1 MiB GETs 2,794/s (axum 1,372, drogon 708); crash-safe PUTs 5.1-5.8 times axum and 13-30 times drogon; peak RSS 5.0 MiB against 14.4 and 76.5 MiB. --workloads is now a regular expression.
* Make a tree store commit durable with one synceunhhu2026-09-264-0/+328
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A commit used to sync its nodes, then write the head and sync again: the order of writes was forced by syncs. Now the head carries where the commit's bytes start and their digest, and one fdatasync makes the bytes and the head durable together. A crash during it can leave a head whose bytes did not all reach the device; its digest then fails and the older slot stands, which is safe because a writer only builds on a durable head. Commits overwrite written zeros kept after the published end, so the sync changes neither the size nor the block map and needs no journal commit. On the SD card this is 2.4 ms per commit against 9.1 ms for two syncs; the store commits 289-304 times a second instead of 94-109, and pure-serve answers 2,012-2,611 durable PUTs a second against 583 for crash-safe axum. A process remembers the heads it published or checked, so it reads a commit's bytes at most once and never its own. Its readers pass over the head it is still making durable and so never answer with a commit a crash could take back. Head slots get a block each and the format becomes PURETRE2; a handle's refresh reads the slots through its mapping.
* Let the runtime own working versions as draftseunhhu2026-09-253-0/+234
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | state.h gives any app a runtime-owned working version of a stored value on the tree store. A draft shares unchanged extents with the stored version, edits in memory by path copying, lends ordered extents without copying, and commits only its new nodes when the key is still at its base revision. A failed commit changes neither the draft nor the store; a draft whose file was replaced by compaction copies its stored extents on commit. Unreachable arena nodes are reclaimed once they outweigh max(reachable, 32 KiB). Typing into the middle of a 1 MiB document and saving each character peaked at about 1,660 KiB RSS with a draft against about 4,480 KiB for an app copy compared with storage on save; saves were only 1-2 ms faster. This corrects 073, which had attributed the TUI's remaining 8 ms to that comparison. Drafts are not yet charged to the runtime budget or visible to .pure definitions.
* Add selected single-file persistent tree storeeunhhu2026-09-255-0/+912
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | store-tree.c keeps every document in one append-only file as a persistent B-tree of byte extents, with the key catalog in the same structure. A splice writes only the changed leaf and path; unchanged extents are shared between versions, readers take no lock, and two alternating head slots publish a commit after its nodes are durable. Compaction rewrites reachable nodes. On the recorded ext4 host a durable 1-byte middle insert into a 1 MiB document took 8.58 ms against 78.51 ms for the default store, and the real TUI's Ctrl+S after typing took 16.60 ms against 84.59 ms. check-tree runs the store's crash/oracle tests and the unchanged runtime, splice, async and real-PTY editor checks on it. It stays opt-in: linked code is 12.7 KB larger and contiguous multi-leaf reads copy.
* Verify paged document app under 4 KiB AArch64 kerneleunhhu2026-09-242-0/+196
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* Establish native micro runtime checkpointeunhhu2026-09-2492-0/+88792