writeonce/docs/plan/oop-vm
shoney.arickathil 8b29eb492c docs(db): T6 closeout — checkpoint documented, chain's last link lands
databasev2 3, task 6. Documentation, plus three gate-tolerance
corrections that are justified rather than silent.

- 04-db-binding.md: the NORMATIVE rule — compaction may run only where
  nothing is staged (a correctness requirement, not scheduling), recovery
  is unchanged, and a failed compaction is a missed optimisation rather
  than a durability event
- database/src/CODE-LOGIC.md: why one file and not snapshot-plus-tail
  (Postgres CANNOT compact — page deltas; ours are full row images, so a
  compacted log IS a store), why rename is the whole crash-safety story,
  why the dump flushes but does NOT fsync when it does, why the
  replacement is preallocated, and where the trigger is checked
- README: the checkpoint knobs, the extended walstats line, the boot mode
- story -> status: done, with criteria split met/outstanding
- board: standup entry in the six-question shape, both rows rewritten

THE OBLIGATION IS AT THE COMPACTOR, not only in a spec: compaction moves
every record, so it invalidates every WAL offset iteration 2's
`resident: keys` stores, and the loop that knows each record's new
position must rebuild that map. Nothing fails today because that storage
half is unimplemented — it would fail later, looking like corruption.

Board claim corrected before it shipped: I wrote that the concurrency
chain is "complete". It is not — chain 5 stays in-progress because
databasev2 4's part B was never done and its premise was invalidated by
part A. Every link has landed its PLANNED work; that is a different
statement.

Gate tolerances, each with the measurement that justifies it:

- ckpt.pause_us_max is no longer gated relatively. The raw pause scales
  with the live set and this workload's live set is not fixed (wmix's
  hist_dump inserts a row per latency bucket), so gating it gates the
  box. Added ckpt.pause_us_per_mb — the engine's own rate, gated for
  real, and the metric that would have caught the 8x dump regression —
  with the absolute 50ms budget still guarding the raw pause
- ram.*.msgrate 15% -> 70%. PRE-EXISTING, and measured: 10.7M-17.9M
  msgs/sec across ten full runs, several predating this work — a 1.67x
  spread against a 15% gate
- durable.sN.*.p99us 100% -> 300%, with more evidence than the first
  widening: mixread 1043/2318/4147us, mixwrite 1623/4446us on the same
  build. Floors stay the real guard and are not slack

Battery: wovm-test 36 suites 0 fail, woc-test, oop-e2e 119/0,
db-bench 117 checks 0 failures, linkcheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-29 06:48:34 +02:00
..
00-wob-format.md docs+fix(db): T6 closeout — and reads no longer wait for the barrier 2026-08-28 16:48:23 +02:00
01-error-catalog.md docs: audit all markdown against the code, fix findings, flatten status folders 2026-08-26 19:20:22 +02:00
02-corpus.md feat(compiler): iteration 5 Tasks 1-4 — modules, language surface, switch, typedef records + enum variants 2026-08-12 14:40:07 +02:00
03-concurrency-coroutines.md docs: audit all markdown against the code, fix findings, flatten status folders 2026-08-26 19:20:22 +02:00
04-db-binding.md docs(db): T6 closeout — checkpoint documented, chain's last link lands 2026-08-29 06:48:34 +02:00
08-builtin-surface.md Merge branch 'master' into chat-ws-lifecycle 2026-08-27 23:11:49 +02:00
README.md docs: oop-vm/03 — stackless coroutine contract (no async) 2026-08-21 11:07:52 +02:00

docs/plan/oop-vm/ — OOP + systems track contracts

The normative contract documents both stacks cite. Landed by their named plan tasks:

doc contract plan
00-wob-format.md .wob bytecode format (compiler↔VM) 1
01-error-catalog.md every WO-E### code 2, grows 3/8
02-corpus.md how to add conformance fixtures 3
03-concurrency-coroutines.md stackless fibers, park/resume protocols, reduction budget, the no-async rule arc (was plan 4's slot; that plan ✖ discarded 2026-08-21)
04-db-binding.md row format, WAL records, query subset 5
05-http-service.md route section, trap→HTTP table, JSON subset 6
06-ui-live.md delta frames, subscribe protocol, wo:live 7
07-systems-stdlib.md per-function nil-vs-trap contracts 9
08-builtin-surface.md builtin source names, container/call/entry rules the emitter enforces 3

Specs and plans: docs/superpowers/{specs,plans}/. Repo map: docs/08-project-structure.md.