progress on aot

Use PPretext for parser string building to avoid GC issues during parsing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.cell/cell.toml

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-sdl_video = "main"
-[dependencies]
-extramath = "https://gitea.pockle.world/john/extramath@master"
-[system]
-ar_timer = 60
-actor_memory = 0
-net_service = 0.1
-reply_timeout = 60
-actor_max = "10_000"
-stack_max = 0
-[actors]
-[actors.prosperon/sdl_video]
-main = true
-[actors.prosperon/prosperon]
-main = true
-[actors.prosperon]
-main = true

.cell/lock.toml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-[modules]
-[modules.extramath]
-hash = "MCLZT3JABTAENS4WVXKGWJ7JPBLZER4YQ5VN2PE7ZD2Z4WYGTIMA===="
-url = "https://gitea.pockle.world/john/extramath@master"
-downloaded = "Monday June 2 12:07:20.42 PM -5 2025 AD"
-commit = "84d81a19a8455bcf8dc494739e9e6d545df6ff2c"

.clang-format

@@ -1,9 +1,20 @@
 BasedOnStyle: GNU
+Language: C
+
 IndentWidth: 2
 TabWidth: 2
 UseTab: Never
-ContinuationIndentWidth: 2  # Indents continuation lines by 2 spaces
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 2
+
 AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: true
 AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: true
 AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: true
 BreakBeforeBraces: Attach
+ColumnLimit: 0
+BreakFunctionDefinitionParameters: false
+BinPackParameters: false
+BinPackArguments: false
+
+# --- Fix the "static T\nname(...)" style ---
+AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
+BreakAfterReturnType: None

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.mach binary merge=ours

.github/docker/Dockerfile.alpine

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# Dockerfile.alpine
-FROM alpine:edge
-
-# Enable the edge and edge/community repositories.
-# If you already have those in your base image, you might not need these echo lines.
-RUN echo "https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main" >> /etc/apk/repositories && \
-    echo "https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community" >> /etc/apk/repositories
-
-# Update indexes and install packages
-RUN apk update && \
-    apk add --no-cache \
-      build-base \
-      binutils \
-      mold \
-      meson \
-      cmake \
-      ninja \
-      git \
-      pkgconf \
-      ccache \
-      nodejs \
-      npm \
-      zip \
-      alsa-lib-dev \
-      pulseaudio-dev \
-      libudev-zero-dev \
-      wayland-dev \
-      wayland-protocols \
-      mesa-dev \
-      sdl3

.github/docker/Dockerfile.linux

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-FROM ubuntu:plucky
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-    python3 python3-pip \
-    libasound2-dev \
-    libpulse-dev \
-    libudev-dev \
-    libwayland-dev \
-    wayland-protocols \
-    libxkbcommon-dev \
-    libx11-dev \
-    libxext-dev \
-    libxrandr-dev \
-    libxcursor-dev \
-    libxi-dev \
-    libxinerama-dev \
-    libxss-dev \
-    libegl1-mesa-dev \
-    libgl1-mesa-dev \
-    cmake \
-    ninja-build \
-    git \
-    build-essential \
-    binutils \
-    mold \
-    pkg-config \
-    meson \
-    ccache \
-    mingw-w64 \
-    wine \
-    npm nodejs zip && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

.github/docker/Dockerfile.mingw

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-FROM ubuntu:plucky
-
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-      mingw-w64 \
-      cmake \
-      ninja-build \
-      git \
-      build-essential \
-      binutils \
-      pkg-config \
-      zip \
-      ccache \
-      npm nodejs && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -1,304 +0,0 @@
-name: Build and Deploy
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ "*" ]
-    tags:   [ "v*" ]
-  pull_request:
-
-jobs:
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  #  LINUX BUILD
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  build-linux:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container:
-      image: gitea.pockle.world/john/prosperon/linux:latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Check Out Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
-
-      - name: Build Prosperon (Linux)
-        run: |
-          meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release -Db_lto=true -Db_lto_mode=thin -Db_ndebug=true
-          meson compile -C build
-
-      - name: Test Prosperon (Linux)
-        env: { TRACY_NO_INVARIANT_CHECK: 1 }
-        run: |
-          meson test --print-errorlogs -C build
-
-      - name: Upload Test Log (Linux)
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: testlog-linux
-          path: build/meson-logs/testlog.txt
-
-      - name: Upload Artifact (Linux)
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: prosperon-artifacts-linux
-          path: build/prosperon
-          
-      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
-          
-      - name: Log in to Gitea Registry
-        uses: docker/login-action@v3
-        with:
-          registry: gitea.pockle.world
-          username: ${{ secrets.USER_GITEA }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_GITEA }}
-      
-      - name: Determine Docker Tag
-        id: docker_tag
-        run: |
-          if [[ "${{ github.ref }}" =~ ^refs/tags/v.* ]]; then
-            TAG=$(echo "${{ github.ref }}" | sed 's#refs/tags/##')
-            echo "tag=$TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          else
-            echo "tag=latest" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          fi
-      
-      - name: Build and Push Docker Image
-        uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
-        with:
-          context: .
-          file: ./Dockerfile
-          push: true
-          tags: gitea.pockle.world/john/prosperon:${{ steps.docker_tag.outputs.tag }}
-          platforms: linux/amd64
-
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  #  WINDOWS BUILD (MSYS2 / CLANG64)
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  build-windows:
-    runs-on: win-native
-    strategy:
-      matrix: { msystem: [ CLANG64 ] }
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Check Out Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Setup MSYS2
-        uses: msys2/setup-msys2@v2
-        with:
-          msystem: ${{ matrix.msystem }}
-          update: true
-          cache: true
-          install: |
-            git zip gzip tar base-devel
-          pacboy: |
-            meson
-            cmake
-            toolchain
-
-      - name: Build Prosperon (Windows)
-        shell: msys2 {0}
-        run: |
-          meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release -Db_lto=true -Db_lto_mode=thin -Db_ndebug=true -Dtracy:only_localhost=true -Dtracy:no_broadcast=true
-          meson compile -C build
-
-      - name: Test Prosperon (Windows)
-        shell: msys2 {0}
-        env:
-          TRACY_NO_INVARIANT_CHECK: 1
-        run: |
-          meson test --print-errorlogs -C build
-
-      - name: Upload Test Log (Windows)
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: testlog-windows
-          path: build/meson-logs/testlog.txt
-
-      - name: Upload Artifact (Windows)
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: prosperon-artifacts-windows
-          path: build/prosperon.exe
-
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  #  MACOS BUILD
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  build-macos:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Check Out Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
-          
-      - name: Build Prosperon (macOS)
-        run: |
-          meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release -Db_lto=true -Db_lto_mode=thin -Db_ndebug=true
-          meson compile -C build
-          
-      - name: Test Prosperon (macOS)
-        run: |
-          meson test --print-errorlogs -C build
-
-      - name: Upload Test Log (macOS)
-        if: ${{ always() }}
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: testlog-macos
-          path: build/meson-logs/testlog.txt
-
-      - name: Upload Artifact (macOS)
-        if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: prosperon-artifacts-macos
-          path: build/prosperon
-
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  #  PACKAGE CROSS-PLATFORM DIST
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  package-dist:
-    needs: [ build-linux, build-windows, build-macos ]
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Check Out Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
-
-      - name: Get Latest Tag
-        id: get_tag
-        run: |
-          TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
-          echo "tag=$TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Download Linux Artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: prosperon-artifacts-linux
-          path: linux_artifacts
-
-      - name: Download Windows Artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: prosperon-artifacts-windows
-          path: windows_artifacts
-
-      - name: Download macOS Artifacts
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: prosperon-artifacts-macos
-          path: mac_artifacts
-
-      - name: Create Dist Folder
-        run: |
-          mkdir -p dist/linux dist/win dist/mac
-          cp README.md        dist/
-          cp license.txt      dist/
-          cp -r examples      dist/
-          cp linux_artifacts/*   dist/linux/
-          cp windows_artifacts/* dist/win/
-          cp mac_artifacts/*     dist/mac/
-
-      - name: Package Final Dist
-        run: |
-          TAG=${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}
-          zip -r "prosperon-${TAG}.zip" dist
-          echo "Created prosperon-${TAG}.zip"
-
-      - name: Upload Final Dist
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: "prosperon-${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}"
-          path: "prosperon-${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}.zip"
-
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  #  DEPLOY TO ITCH.IO   (single ZIP containing all OSes)
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  deploy-itch:
-    needs: [ package-dist ]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Check Out Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
-
-      - name: Get Latest Tag
-        id: get_tag
-        run: |
-          TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
-          echo "tag=$TAG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Download Final Distribution
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: "prosperon-${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}"
-          path: dist
-
-      - name: Set up Butler
-        uses: jdno/setup-butler@v1
-
-      - name: Push to itch.io
-        run: |
-          butler push "dist/prosperon-${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}.zip" \
-            ${{ secrets.ITCHIO_USERNAME }}/prosperon:universal \
-            --userversion ${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}
-        env:
-          BUTLER_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ITCHIO_API_KEY }}
-
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  #  DEPLOY TO SELF-HOSTED GITEA
-  # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  deploy-gitea:
-    needs: [ package-dist ]
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Check Out Code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-        with: { fetch-depth: 0 }
-
-      - name: Get Latest Tag & Commit Message
-        id: get_tag
-        run: |
-          TAG=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0)
-          COMMIT_MSG=$(git log -1 --pretty=%B "$TAG")
-          echo "tag=$TAG"        >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "commit_msg=$COMMIT_MSG" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Download Final Distribution
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
-        with:
-          name: "prosperon-${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}"
-          path: dist
-
-      - name: Create / Update Gitea Release
-        run: |
-          TAG=${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.tag }}
-          ZIP=dist/prosperon-${TAG}.zip
-          BODY=$(echo "${{ steps.get_tag.outputs.commit_msg }}" | jq -R -s '.')
-          RELEASE=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: token ${{ secrets.TOKEN_GITEA }}" \
-            "https://gitea.pockle.world/api/v1/repos/john/prosperon/releases/tags/$TAG" | jq -r '.id')
-
-          if [ "$RELEASE" = "null" ] || [ -z "$RELEASE" ]; then
-            RELEASE=$(curl -X POST \
-              -H "Authorization: token ${{ secrets.TOKEN_GITEA }}" \
-              -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-              -d "{\"tag_name\":\"$TAG\",\"target_commitish\":\"${{ github.sha }}\",\"name\":\"$TAG\",\"body\":$BODY,\"draft\":false,\"prerelease\":false}" \
-              "https://gitea.pockle.world/api/v1/repos/john/prosperon/releases" | jq -r '.id')
-          fi
-
-          curl -X POST \
-            -H "Authorization: token ${{ secrets.TOKEN_GITEA }}" \
-            -H "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
-            --data-binary @"$ZIP" \
-            "https://gitea.pockle.world/api/v1/repos/john/prosperon/releases/$RELEASE/assets?name=prosperon-${TAG}.zip"
-        env:
-          TOKEN_GITEA: ${{ secrets.TOKEN_GITEA }}

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 .git/
 .obj/
+website/public/
+website/.hugo_build.lock
 bin/
 build/
 *.zip
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ build/
 source/shaders/*.h
 .DS_Store
 *.html
+!website/themes/**/*.html
 .vscode
 *.icns
 icon.ico
@@ -21,3 +24,10 @@ steam/
 subprojects/*/
 build_dbg/
 modules/
+sdk/
+artifacts/
+discord_social_sdk/
+discord_partner_sdk/
+steam_api64.dll
+subprojects/.wraplock
+.gemini

AGENTS.md

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# AGENTS.md
-
-## Project Overview
-This is a game engine developed using a QuickJS fork as its scripting language. It is an actor based system, based on Douglas Crockford's Misty. It is a Meson compiled project with a number of dependencies.
-
-## File Structure
-- `source/`: Contains the C source code
-- `scripts/`: Contains script code that is loaded on executable start, and modules
-- `shaders/`: Contains shaders that ship with the engine (for shader based backends)
-- `benchmarks/`: Benchmark programs for testing speed
-- `tests/`: Unit tests
-- `examples/`: Contains full game examples
-
-## Coding Practices
-- Use K&R style C
-- Javascript style prefers objects and prototypical inheritence over ES6 classes, liberal use of closures, and var everywhere
-
-## Instructions
-- When generating code, adhere to the coding practices outlined above.
-- When adding new features, ensure they align with the project's goals.
-- When fixing bugs, review the code carefully before making changes.
-- When writing unit tests, cover all important scenarios.
-
-## Compiling, running, and testing
-- To compile the code, run "make", which generates a prosperon executable in build_dbg/, and copy it into the root folder
-- Run a test by giving it as its command: so ./prosperon tests/overling.js would run the test overling.js, ./prosperon tests/nota.js runs the nota benchmark

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1,405 +1,141 @@
-# CLAUDE.md
+# ƿit (pit) Language Project
 
-This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
+## Building
 
-## Build Commands
+Recompile after changes: `make`
+Bootstrap from scratch (first time): `make bootstrap`
+Run `cell --help` to see all CLI flags.
 
-### Build variants
-- `make` - Make and install debug version. Usually all that's needed.
-- `make fast` - Build optimized version  
-- `make release` - Build release version with LTO and optimizations
-- `make small` - Build minimal size version
-- `make web` - Build for web/emscripten platform
-- `make crosswin` - Cross-compile for Windows using mingw32
+## Code Style
 
-### Testing
-After install with 'make', just run 'cell' and point it at the actor you want to launch. "cell tests/toml" runs the actor "tests/toml.js"
+All code uses 2 spaces for indentation. K&R style for C and Javascript.
 
-## Scripting language
-This is called "cell", but it is is a variant of javascript and extremely similar.
+## ƿit Script Quick Reference
 
-### Common development commands
-- `meson setup build_<variant>` - Configure build directory
-- `meson compile -C build_<variant>` - Compile in build directory
-- `./build_dbg/prosperon examples/<example>` - Run example from build directory
-- Copy prosperon to game directory and run: `cp build_dbg/prosperon <game-dir>/ && cd <game-dir> && ./prosperon`
+ƿit script files: `.ce` (actors) and `.cm` (modules). The syntax is similar to JavaScript with important differences listed below.
 
-## Architecture Overview
+### Key Differences from JavaScript
 
-Prosperon is an actor-based game engine inspired by Douglas Crockford's Misty system. Key architectural principles:
+- `var` (mutable) and `def` (constant) — no `let` or `const`
+- `==` and `!=` are strict (no `===` or `!==`)
+- No `undefined` — only `null`
+- No classes — only objects and prototypes (`meme()`, `proto()`, `isa()`)
+- No `for...in`, `for...of`, spread (`...`), rest params, or default params
+- No named function declarations — use `var fn = function() {}` or arrow functions
+- Variables must be declared at function body level only (not in if/while/for/blocks)
+- All variables must be initialized at declaration (`var x` alone is an error; use `var x = null`)
+- No `try`/`catch`/`throw` — use `disrupt`/`disruption`
+- No arraybuffers — only `blob` (works with bits; must `stone(blob)` before reading)
+- Identifiers can contain `?` and `!` (e.g., `nil?`, `set!`, `is?valid`)
+- Prefer backticks for string interpolation; otherwise use `text()` to convert non-strings
+- Everything should be lowercase
+
+### Intrinsic Functions (always available, no `use()` needed)
+
+The creator functions are **polymorphic** — behavior depends on argument types:
+
+- `array(number)` — create array of size N filled with null
+- `array(number, value_or_fn)` — create array with initial values
+- `array(array)` — copy array
+- `array(array, fn)` — map
+- `array(array, array)` — concatenate
+- `array(array, from, to)` — slice
+- `array(record)` — get keys as array of text
+- **`array(text)` — split text into individual characters** (e.g., `array("hello")` → `["h","e","l","l","o"]`)
+- `array(text, separator)` — split by separator
+- `array(text, length)` — split into chunks of length
+
+- `text(array, separator)` — join array into text
+- `text(number)` or `text(number, radix)` — number to text
+- `text(text, from, to)` — substring
+
+- `number(text)` or `number(text, radix)` — parse text to number
+- `number(logical)` — boolean to number
+
+- `record(record)` — copy
+- `record(record, another)` — merge
+- `record(array_of_keys)` — create record from keys
+
+Other key intrinsics: `length()`, `stone()`, `is_stone()`, `print()`, `filter()`, `find()`, `reduce()`, `sort()`, `reverse()`, `some()`, `every()`, `starts_with()`, `ends_with()`, `meme()`, `proto()`, `isa()`, `splat()`, `apply()`, `extract()`, `replace()`, `search()`, `format()`, `lower()`, `upper()`, `trim()`
+
+Sensory functions: `is_array()`, `is_text()`, `is_number()`, `is_object()`, `is_function()`, `is_null()`, `is_logical()`, `is_integer()`, `is_stone()`, etc.
+
+### Standard Library (loaded with `use()`)
+
+- `blob` — binary data (bits, not bytes)
+- `time` — time constants and conversions
+- `math` — trig, logarithms, roots (`math/radians`, `math/turns`)
+- `json` — JSON encoding/decoding
+- `random` — random number generation
 
 ### Actor Model
-- Each actor runs on its own thread
-- Communication only through message passing (no shared JavaScript objects)
-- Hierarchical actor system with spawning/killing
-- Actor lifecycle: awake, update, draw, garbage collection
 
-### JavaScript Style Guide
-- Use `use()` function for imports (Misty-style, not ES6 import/export)
-- Prefer closures and javascript objects and prototypes over ES6 style classes
-- Follow existing JavaScript patterns in the codebase
-- Functions as first-class citizens
-- Do not use const or let; only var
+- `.ce` files are actors (independent execution units, don't return values)
+- `.cm` files are modules (return a value, cached and frozen)
+- Actors never share memory; communicate via `$send()` message passing
+- Actor intrinsics start with `$`: `$me`, `$stop()`, `$send()`, `$start()`, `$delay()`, `$receiver()`, `$clock()`, `$portal()`, `$contact()`, `$couple()`, `$unneeded()`, `$connection()`, `$time_limit()`
 
-### Core Systems
-1. **Actor System** (scripts/core/engine.js)
-   - Message passing via `send()`, `$_.receive()`
-   - Actor spawning/management
-   - Register-based component system (update, draw, gui, etc.)
-   
-2. **Module System**
-   - `use()` function for loading modules
-   - Module paths: `scripts/modules/`, `scripts/modules/ext/`
-   - Custom QuickJS build with embedded C modules
+### Requestors (async composition)
 
-3. **Build System**
-   - Meson build configuration (Makefile is convenience wrapper)
-   - Multiple platform targets (Windows, macOS, Linux, Web)
-   - Custom QuickJS build in `subprojects/`
-   - Uses SDL3 for cross-platform support
+`sequence()`, `parallel()`, `race()`, `fallback()` — compose asynchronous operations. See docs/requestors.md.
 
-### Engine Entry Points
-- `source/prosperon.c` - Main C entry point
-- `scripts/core/engine.js` - JavaScript engine initialization for system
-- `scripts/core/base.js` has modifications to this Javascript runtime (for example, additions to the base Array, String, etc)
-
-### Subprojects
-- C code has many subprojects, who's source and sometimes documentation can be found in subprojects. subprojects/quickjs/doc has documentation for quickjs
-
-### Resource System
-- Scripts are bundled into `core.zip` during build
-- Runtime module loading via PhysFS
-- Resource paths checked in order: `/`, `scripts/modules/`, `scripts/modules/ext/`
-
-### Notable Dependencies
-- QuickJS (custom build) - JavaScript runtime
-- SDL3 - Platform abstraction
-- Chipmunk2D - Physics
-- ENet - Networking  
-- Soloud - Audio
-- Tracy - Profiling (when enabled)
-
-## Development Tips
-
-### Running Games
-```bash
-# Build first
-make debug
-
-# Run example from build directory
-./build_dbg/prosperon examples/chess
-
-# Or copy to game directory
-cp build_dbg/prosperon examples/chess/
-cd examples/chess
-./prosperon
-```
-
-### Documentation
-- Documentation is found in docs
-- Documentation for the JS modules loaded with 'use' is docs/api/modules
-- .md files directly in docs gives a high level overview
-- docs/dull is what this specific Javascript system is (including alterations from quickjs/es6)
-
-### Shader Development
-- Shaders are in `shaders/` directory as HLSL
-- Compile script: `shaders/compile.sh`
-- Outputs to platform-specific formats: `dxil/`, `msl/`, `spv/`
-
-### Example Games
-Located in `examples/` directory:
-- `chess` - Chess implementation (has its own Makefile)
-- `pong` - Classic pong game
-- `snake` - Snake game
-- `tetris` - Tetris clone
-- `bunnymark` - Performance test
-
-### Testing
-```bash
-# Run all tests
-meson test -C build_dbg
-
-# Run specific test  
-./build_dbg/prosperon tests/spawn_actor.js
-```
-
-### Debugging
-- Use debug build: `make debug`
-- Tracy profiler support when enabled
-- Console logging available via `log.console()`, `log.error()`, etc.
-- Log files written to `.prosperon/log.txt`
-
-# Project Structure Notes
-
-## Core JavaScript Modules
-
-- JavaScript modules are defined using the MISTUSE macro in jsffi.c
-- The `js_os_funcs`, `js_io_funcs`, etc. arrays define the available functions for each module
-- New functions are added with MIST_FUNC_DEF(module, function, args_count)
-
-## File I/O
-
-- `io.slurp(path)` - Reads a file as text
-- `io.slurpbytes(path)` - Reads a file as an ArrayBuffer
-- `io.slurpwrite(path, data)` - Writes data (string or ArrayBuffer) to a file
-- `io.exists(path)` - Checks if a file exists
-
-## Script Loading
-
-- The `use(path)` function in engine.js loads JavaScript modules
-- Script loading happens in prosperon.c and the engine.js script
-- jsffi.c contains the C hooks for the QuickJS JavaScript engine
-- Added functionality for bytecode compilation and loading:
-  - `os.compile_bytecode(source, filename)` - Compiles JS to bytecode, returns ArrayBuffer
-  - `os.eval_bytecode(bytecode)` - Evaluates bytecode from an ArrayBuffer
-  - `compile(scriptPath)` - Compiles a JS file to a .jso bytecode file
-  - Modified `use()` to check for .jso files before loading .js files
-
-## QuickJS Bytecode API
-
-- `JS_Eval` with JS_EVAL_FLAG_COMPILE_ONLY - Compiles without executing
-- `JS_WriteObject` with JS_WRITE_OBJ_BYTECODE - Serializes to bytecode
-- `JS_ReadObject` with JS_READ_OBJ_BYTECODE - Deserializes and loads bytecode
-- Bytecode files use .jso extension alongside .js files
-
-## Available JavaScript APIs
-
-### Core APIs
-- `actor` - Base prototype for all actor objects
-- `$_` - Special global for actor messaging
-- `prosperon` - Global engine interface
-- `console` - Logging and debugging interface
-
-### Framework APIs
-- `moth` - Higher-level game framework that simplifies Prosperon usage
-  - Handles window creation, game loop, and event dispatching
-  - Provides simple configuration via config.js 
-  - Auto-initializes systems like rendering and input
-  - Manages camera, resolution, and FPS automatically
-
-### Rendering
-- `draw2d` - 2D drawing primitives
-- `render` - Low-level rendering operations
-- `graphics` - Higher-level graphics utilities
-- `camera` - Camera controls and transformations
-- `sprite` - Sprite rendering and management
-
-### Physics and Math
-- `math` - Mathematical utilities
-- `geometry` - Geometric calculations and shapes
-- `transform` - Object transformations
-
-### Input and Events
-- `input` - Mouse, keyboard, and touch handling
-- `event` - Event management system
-
-### Networking
-- `enet` - Networking through ENet library
-- `http` - HTTP client capabilities
-
-### Audio
-- `sound` - Audio playback using SoLoud
-
-### Utility Modules
-- `time` - Time management and delays
-  - **Must be imported with `use('time')`**
-  - No `time.now()` function - use:
-    - `time.number()` - Number representation of current time
-    - `time.record()` - Struct representation of current time  
-    - `time.text()` - Text representation of current time
-- `io` - File I/O operations
-- `json` - JSON parsing and serialization
-- `util` - General utilities
-- `color` - Color manipulation
-- `miniz` - Compression utilities
-- `nota` - Structured data format
-- `wota` - Serialization format
-- `qr` - QR code generation/reading
-- `tween` - Animation tweening
-- `spline` - Spline calculations
-- `imgui` - Immediate mode GUI
-
-## Game Development Patterns
-
-### Project Structure
-- Game config is typically in `config.js`
-- Main entry point is `main.js`
-- Resource loading through `resources.js`
-
-### Actor Pattern Usage
-- Create actors with `actor.spawn(script, config)`
-- Start actors with `$_.start(callback, script)` - the system automatically sends a greeting, callback receives {type: 'greet', actor: actor_ref}
-  - No need to manually send greetings - `$_.start` handles this automatically
-- Manage actor hierarchy with overlings and underlings
-- Schedule actor tasks with `$_.delay()` method
-- Clean up with `kill()` and `garbage()`
-
-### Actor Messaging with Callbacks
-When sending a message with a callback, respond by sending to the message itself:
-```javascript
-// Sender side:
-send(actor, {type: 'status'}, response => {
-  log.console(response); // Handle the response
-});
-
-// Receiver side:
-$_.receiver(msg => {
-  if (msg.type === 'status') {
-    send(msg, {status: 'ok'}); // Send response to the message itself
-  }
-});
-```
-
-**Critical Rules for Message Callbacks**: 
-- **A message can only be used ONCE as a send target** - after sending a response to a message, it cannot be used again
-- If you need to send multiple updates (like progress), only the download request message should be used for the final response
-- Status requests should each get their own individual response
-- Actor objects and message headers are completely opaque - never try to access internal properties
-- Never access `msg.__HEADER__` or similar - the actor system handles routing internally
-- Use `$_.delay()` to schedule work and avoid blocking the message receiver
-
-### Game Loop Registration
-- Register functions like `update`, `draw`, `gui`, etc.
-- Set function.layer property to control execution order
-- Use `Register` system to manage callbacks
-
-### Program vs Module Pattern
-- Programs are actor scripts that don't return values, they execute top-to-bottom
-- Modules are files that return single values (usually objects) that get frozen
-- Programs can spawn other programs as underlings
-- Programs have lifecycle hooks: awake, update, draw, garbage, etc.
-
-## Technical Capabilities
-
-### Graphics Pipeline
-- Supports multiple render backends (Direct3D, Metal, Vulkan via SDL3)
-- Custom shader system with cross-platform compilation
-- Sprite batching for efficient 2D rendering
-- Camera systems for both 2D and 3D
-
-### Asset Support
-- Images: PNG, JPG, QOI, etc.
-- Audio: Various formats through SoLoud
-- Models: Basic 3D model support
-- Custom formats: Aseprite animations, etc.
-
-### Developer Tools
-- Built-in documentation system with `cell.DOC`
-- Tracy profiler integration for performance monitoring
-- Imgui debugging tools
-- Console logging with various severity levels
-
-## Misty Networking Patterns
-
-Prosperon implements the Misty actor networking model. Understanding these patterns is critical for building distributed applications.
-
-### Portal Reply Pattern
-Portals must reply with an actor object, not application data:
-```javascript
-// CORRECT: Portal replies with actor
-$_.portal(e => {
-  send(e, $_);  // Reply with server actor
-}, 5678);
-
-// WRONG: Portal sends application data  
-$_.portal(e => {
-  send(e, {type: 'game_start'});  // This breaks the pattern
-}, 5678);
-```
-
-### Two-Phase Connection Protocol
-Proper Misty networking follows a two-phase pattern:
-
-**Phase 1: Actor Connection**
-- Client contacts portal using `$_.contact()`
-- Portal replies with an actor object
-- This establishes the communication channel
-
-**Phase 2: Application Communication**
-- Client sends application messages to the received actor
-- Normal bidirectional messaging begins
-- Application logic handles game/service initialization
-
-### Message Handling Best Practices
-Messages should be treated as opaque objects with your application data:
+### Error Handling
 
 ```javascript
-// CORRECT: Store actor references separately
-var players = {};
-$_.receiver(msg => {
-  if (msg.type === 'join_game' && msg.player_id) {
-    // Store the message for later response
-    players[msg.player_id] = msg;
-    // Later, respond to the stored message
-    send(players[msg.player_id], {type: 'game_start'});
-  }
-});
-
-// WRONG: Trying to access internal message properties
-$_.receiver(msg => {
-  var sender = msg.__HEADER__.replycc;  // Never do this!
-});
+var fn = function() {
+  disrupt  // bare keyword, no value
+} disruption {
+  // handle error; can re-raise with disrupt
+}
 ```
 
-### Return ID Lifecycle
-- Each reply callback gets a unique return ID
-- Return IDs are consumed once and then deleted
-- Reusing message objects with return headers causes "Could not find return function" errors
-- Always create clean actor references for ongoing communication
-
-### Actor Object Transparency
-Actor objects must be completely opaque black boxes that work identically regardless of transport:
+### Push/Pop Syntax
 
 ```javascript
-// Actor objects work transparently for:
-// - Same-process communication (fastest - uses mailbox)
-// - Inter-process communication (uses mailbox) 
-// - Network communication (uses ENet)
-
-// The actor shouldn't know or care about the transport mechanism
-send(opponent, {type: 'move', from: [0,0], to: [1,1]});
+var a = [1, 2]
+a[] = 3       // push: [1, 2, 3]
+var v = a[]   // pop: v is 3, a is [1, 2]
 ```
 
-**Key Implementation Details:**
-- `actor_send()` in `scripts/core/engine.js` handles routing based on available actor data
-- Actor objects sent in message data automatically get address/port populated when received over network
-- Three communication pathways: `os.mailbox_exist()` check → mailbox send → network send
-- Actor objects must contain all necessary routing information for transparent messaging
+## C Integration
 
-### Common Networking Bugs
-1. **Portal sending application data**: Portal should only establish actor connections
-2. **Return ID collision**: Reusing messages with return headers for multiple sends
-3. **Mixed phases**: Trying to do application logic during connection establishment
-4. **Header pollution**: Using received message objects as actor references
-5. **Missing actor address info**: Actor objects in message data need network address population (fixed in engine.js:746-766)
+- Declare everything `static` that can be
+- Most files don't have headers; files in a package are not shared between packages
+- No undefined in C API: use `JS_IsNull` and `JS_NULL` only
+- A C file with correct macros (`CELL_USE_FUNCS` etc) is loaded as a module by its name (e.g., `png.c` in a package → `use('<package>/png')`)
+- C symbol naming: `js_<pkg>_<file>_use` (e.g., `js_core_math_radians_use` for `core/math/radians`)
+- Core is the `core` package — its symbols follow the same `js_core_<name>_use` pattern as all other packages
+- Package directories should contain only source files (no `.mach`/`.mcode` alongside source)
+- Build cache files in `build/` are bare hashes (no extensions)
+- Use `JS_FRAME`/`JS_ROOT`/`JS_RETURN` macros for any C function that allocates multiple heap objects. Any `JS_New*`/`JS_SetProperty*` call can trigger GC.
 
-### Example: Correct Chess Networking
-```javascript
-// Server: Portal setup
-$_.portal(e => {
-  send(e, $_);  // Just reply with actor
-}, 5678);
+## Project Layout
 
-// Client: Two-phase connection
-$_.contact((actor, reason) => {
-  if (actor) {
-    opponent = actor;
-    send(opponent, {type: 'join_game'});  // Phase 2: app messaging
-  }
-}, {address: "localhost", port: 5678});
+- `source/` — C source for the cell runtime and CLI
+- `docs/` — master documentation (Markdown), reflected on the website
+- `website/` — Hugo site; theme at `website/themes/knr/`
+- `internal/` — internal ƿit scripts (engine.cm etc.)
+- `packages/` — core packages
+- `Makefile` — build system (`make` to rebuild, `make bootstrap` for first build)
 
-// Server: Handle application messages
-$_.receiver(e => {
-  if (e.type === 'join_game') {
-    opponent = e.__HEADER__.replycc;
-    send(opponent, {type: 'game_start', your_color: 'black'});
-  }
-});
+## Testing
+
+After any C runtime changes, run all three test suites before considering the work done:
+
+```
+make                        # rebuild
+./cell --dev vm_suite       # VM-level tests (641 tests)
+./cell --dev test suite     # language-level tests (493 tests)
+./cell --dev fuzz           # fuzzer (100 iterations)
 ```
 
-## Memory Management
+All three must pass with 0 failures.
 
-- When working with a conversational AI system like Claude, it's important to maintain a clean and focused memory
-- Regularly review and update memories to ensure they remain relevant and helpful
-- Delete or modify memories that are no longer accurate or useful
-- Prioritize information that can genuinely assist in future interactions
+## Documentation
+
+The `docs/` folder is the single source of truth. The website at `website/` mounts it via Hugo. Key files:
+- `docs/language.md` — language syntax reference
+- `docs/functions.md` — all built-in intrinsic functions
+- `docs/actors.md` — actor model and actor intrinsics
+- `docs/requestors.md` — async requestor pattern
+- `docs/library/*.md` — intrinsic type reference (text, number, array, object) and standard library modules

Dockerfile

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-# Builder stage
-FROM ubuntu:plucky AS builder
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-    python3 python3-pip \
-    libasound2-dev \
-    libpulse-dev \
-    libudev-dev \
-    libwayland-dev \
-    wayland-protocols \
-    libxkbcommon-dev \
-    libx11-dev \
-    libxext-dev \
-    libxrandr-dev \
-    libxcursor-dev \
-    libxi-dev \
-    libxinerama-dev \
-    libxss-dev \
-    libegl1-mesa-dev \
-    libgl1-mesa-dev \
-    cmake \
-    ninja-build \
-    git \
-    build-essential \
-    binutils \
-    pkg-config \
-    meson \
-    zip && \
-    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-WORKDIR /app
-RUN git clone https://gitea.pockle.world/john/prosperon.git
-WORKDIR /app/prosperon
-RUN git checkout jsffi_refactor
-RUN meson setup build -Dbuildtype=release -Db_lto=true -Db_lto_mode=thin -Db_ndebug=true
-RUN meson compile -C build
-
-# Runtime stage
-FROM ubuntu:latest
-
-# Install minimal runtime dependencies (e.g., for dynamically linked libraries)
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libstdc++6 && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Copy the compiled prosperon binary from the build stage
-COPY --from=builder /app/prosperon/build/prosperon /usr/local/bin/prosperon
-
-# Create an entrypoint script
-RUN echo '#!/bin/bash' > /entrypoint.sh && \
-    echo '/usr/local/bin/prosperon "$@" &' >> /entrypoint.sh && \
-    echo 'tail -f /dev/null' >> /entrypoint.sh && \
-    chmod +x /entrypoint.sh
-
-WORKDIR /workdir
-ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]

Info.plist

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
-<plist version="1.0">
-<dict>
-    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
-    <string>Prosperon</string>
-    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
-    <string>pockle.world.prosperon</string>
-    <key>CFBundleName</key>
-    <string>Prosperon</string>
-    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
-    <string>0.5</string>
-    <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
-    <string>Copyright © 2024 Pockle World. All rights reserved.</string>
-</dict>
-</plist>

LICENSE

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-Prosperon Game Engine
- 
-Copyright (c) 2019-2024 John Alanbrook
-
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
-(1) The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
-all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
-(2) Any games or other derivative software must display the "Prosperon" logo
-at near the beginning of the software's startup, before the chief purpose
-of the software is underway.
-
-
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
-THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
-THE SOFTWARE.

Makefile

@@ -1,29 +1,83 @@
-debug: FORCE
+# Development build: creates libcell_runtime.dylib + thin main wrapper
+# This is the default target for working on cell itself
+#
+# If cell doesn't exist yet, use 'make bootstrap' first (requires meson)
+# or manually build with meson once.
+#
+# The cell shop is at ~/.cell and core scripts are installed to ~/.cell/core
+
+CELL_SHOP = $(HOME)/.cell
+CELL_CORE_PACKAGE = $(CELL_SHOP)/packages/core
+
+doit: bootstrap
+
+maker: install
+
+makecell:
+	cell pack core -o cell
+	cp cell /opt/homebrew/bin/
+
+# Install core: symlink this directory to ~/.cell/core
+install: cell $(CELL_SHOP)
+	@echo "Linking cell core to $(CELL_CORE_PACKAGE)"
+	rm -rf $(CELL_CORE_PACKAGE)
+	ln -s $(PWD) $(CELL_CORE_PACKAGE)
+	cp cell /opt/homebrew/bin/
+	cp libcell_runtime.dylib /opt/homebrew/lib/
+	@echo "Core installed."
+
+cell: libcell_runtime.dylib cell_main
+	cp cell_main cell
+	chmod +x cell
+	cp cell /opt/homebrew/bin/cell
+	cp libcell_runtime.dylib /opt/homebrew/lib/
+
+# Build the shared runtime library (everything except main.c)
+# Uses existing cell to run build -d
+libcell_runtime.dylib: $(CELL_SHOP)/build/dynamic
+	cell build -d
+	cp $(CELL_SHOP)/build/dynamic/libcell_runtime.dylib .
+
+# Build the thin main wrapper that links to libcell_runtime
+cell_main: source/main.c libcell_runtime.dylib
+	cc -o cell_main source/main.c -L. -lcell_runtime -Wl,-rpath,@loader_path -Wl,-rpath,/opt/homebrew/lib
+
+# Create the cell shop directories
+$(CELL_SHOP):
+	mkdir -p $(CELL_SHOP)
+	mkdir -p $(CELL_SHOP)/packages
+	mkdir -p $(CELL_SHOP)/cache
+	mkdir -p $(CELL_SHOP)/build
+
+$(CELL_CORE):
+	ln -s $(PWD) $(CELL_CORE)
+
+# Static build: creates a fully static cell binary (for distribution)
+static:
+	cell build
+	cp $(CELL_SHOP)/build/static/cell .
+
+# Bootstrap: build cell from scratch using meson (only needed once)
+# Also installs core scripts to ~/.cell/core
+bootstrap:
+	meson setup build_bootstrap -Dbuildtype=debugoptimized
+	meson compile -C build_bootstrap
+	cp build_bootstrap/cell .
+	cp build_bootstrap/libcell_runtime.dylib .
+	@echo "Bootstrap complete. Run cell like ./cell --dev to use a local shop at .cell."
+
+# Clean build artifacts
+clean:
+	rm -rf $(CELL_SHOP)/build build_bootstrap
+	rm -f cell cell_main libcell_runtime.dylib
+
+# Ensure dynamic build directory exists
+$(CELL_SHOP)/build/dynamic: $(CELL_SHOP)
+	mkdir -p $(CELL_SHOP)/build/dynamic
+
+# Legacy meson target
+meson:
 	meson setup build_dbg -Dbuildtype=debugoptimized
-	meson install --only-changed -C build_dbg
-	
-fast: FORCE
-	meson setup build_fast
-	meson install -C build_fast
+	meson install -C build_dbg
 
-release: FORCE
-	meson setup -Dbuildtype=release -Db_lto=true -Db_lto_mode=thin -Db_ndebug=true build_release
-	meson install -C build_release
-
-sanitize: FORCE
-	meson setup -Db_sanitize=address -Db_sanitize=memory -Db_sanitize=leak -Db_sanitize=undefined build_sani
-	meson install -C build_sani
-
-small: FORCE
-	meson setup -Dbuildtype=minsize -Db_lto=true -Db_ndebug=true build_small
-	meson install -C build_small
-
-web: FORCE
-	meson setup -Deditor=false -Dbuildtype=minsize -Db_lto=true -Db_ndebug=true --cross-file emscripten.cross build_web
-	meson compile -C build_web
-
-crosswin: FORCE
-	meson setup -Dbuildtype=debugoptimized --cross-file mingw32.cross build_win
-	meson compile -C build_win
-
-FORCE:
+.PHONY: cell static bootstrap clean meson install

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1 @@
-Thank you for using Prosperon!
-
-Provided are prosperon builds for all available platforms. Simply run prosperon for your platform in a game folder to play!
-
-To get started, take a dive into the provided example games in the examples folder. You can either copy the prosperon executable into an example directory and run it there, or run `prosperon path/to/example` from the project root.
-
-You can take a look through the docs folder for the prosperon manual to learn all about it. The manual is available on the web at [docs.prosperon.dev](https://docs.prosperon.dev).
+Read the docs to get started.

add.ce

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+// cell add <locator> [alias] - Add a dependency to the current package
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cell add <locator>         Add a dependency using default alias
+//   cell add <locator> <alias> Add a dependency with custom alias
+//
+// This adds the dependency to cell.toml and installs it to the shop.
+
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var pkg = use('package')
+var build = use('build')
+var fd = use('fd')
+
+var locator = null
+var alias = null
+var resolved = null
+var parts = null
+var cwd = null
+var build_target = null
+
+array(args, function(arg) {
+  if (arg == '--help' || arg == '-h') {
+    log.console("Usage: cell add <locator> [alias]")
+    log.console("")
+    log.console("Add a dependency to the current package.")
+    log.console("")
+    log.console("Examples:")
+    log.console("  cell add gitea.pockle.world/john/prosperon")
+    log.console("  cell add gitea.pockle.world/john/cell-image image")
+    log.console("  cell add ../local-package")
+    $stop()
+  } else if (!starts_with(arg, '-')) {
+    if (!locator) {
+      locator = arg
+    } else if (!alias) {
+      alias = arg
+    }
+  }
+})
+
+if (!locator) {
+  log.console("Usage: cell add <locator> [alias]")
+  $stop()
+}
+
+// Resolve relative paths to absolute paths
+if (locator == '.' || starts_with(locator, './') || starts_with(locator, '../') || fd.is_dir(locator)) {
+  resolved = fd.realpath(locator)
+  if (resolved) {
+    locator = resolved
+  }
+}
+
+// Generate default alias from locator
+if (!alias) {
+  // Use the last component of the locator as alias
+  parts = array(locator, '/')
+  alias = parts[length(parts) - 1]
+  // Remove any version suffix
+  if (search(alias, '@') != null) {
+    alias = array(alias, '@')[0]
+  }
+}
+
+// Check we're in a package directory
+cwd = fd.realpath('.')
+if (!fd.is_file(cwd + '/cell.toml')) {
+  log.error("Not in a package directory (no cell.toml found)")
+  $stop()
+}
+
+log.console("Adding " + locator + " as '" + alias + "'...")
+
+// Add to local project's cell.toml
+var _add_dep = function() {
+  pkg.add_dependency(null, locator, alias)
+  log.console("  Added to cell.toml")
+} disruption {
+  log.error("Failed to update cell.toml")
+  $stop()
+}
+_add_dep()
+
+// Install to shop
+var _install = function() {
+  shop.get(locator)
+  shop.extract(locator)
+
+  // Build scripts
+  shop.build_package_scripts(locator)
+
+  // Build C code if any
+  var _build_c = function() {
+    build_target = build.detect_host_target()
+    build.build_dynamic(locator, build_target, 'release')
+  } disruption {
+    // Not all packages have C code
+  }
+  _build_c()
+
+  log.console("  Installed to shop")
+} disruption {
+  log.error("Failed to install")
+  $stop()
+}
+_install()
+
+log.console("Added " + alias + " (" + locator + ")")
+
+$stop()

archive/miniz.c

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #include "quickjs.h"
 #include "miniz.h"
-#include "qjs_blob.h"
+#include "cell.h"
 
 static JSClassID js_reader_class_id;
 static JSClassID js_writer_class_id;
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@ static JSClassID js_writer_class_id;
 static void js_reader_finalizer(JSRuntime *rt, JSValue val) {
   mz_zip_archive *zip = JS_GetOpaque(val, js_reader_class_id);
   mz_zip_reader_end(zip);
-  js_free_rt(rt,zip);
+  js_free_rt(zip);
 }
 
 static void js_writer_finalizer(JSRuntime *rt, JSValue val) {
   mz_zip_archive *zip = JS_GetOpaque(val, js_writer_class_id);
   mz_zip_writer_finalize_archive(zip);
   mz_zip_writer_end(zip);
-  js_free_rt(rt,zip);
+  js_free_rt(zip);
 }
 
 static JSClassDef js_reader_class = {
@@ -42,14 +42,20 @@ static JSValue js_miniz_read(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *arg
 {
   size_t len;
   void *data = js_get_blob_data(js, &len, argv[0]);
-  if (!data)
-    return JS_ThrowReferenceError(js, "Could not create data.\n");
+  if (data == -1)
+    return JS_EXCEPTION;
 
-  mz_zip_archive *zip = calloc(sizeof(*zip),1);
-  int success = mz_zip_reader_init_mem(zip, data, len, 0);
-  int err = mz_zip_get_last_error(zip);
-  if (err)
-    return JS_ThrowInternalError(js, "miniz error: %s\n", mz_zip_get_error_string(err));
+  mz_zip_archive *zip = calloc(sizeof(*zip), 1);
+  if (!zip)
+    return JS_ThrowOutOfMemory(js);
+
+  mz_bool success = mz_zip_reader_init_mem(zip, data, len, 0);
+  
+  if (!success) {
+    int err = mz_zip_get_last_error(zip);
+    free(zip);
+    return JS_ThrowInternalError(js, "Failed to initialize zip reader: %s", mz_zip_get_error_string(err));
+  }
 
   JSValue jszip = JS_NewObjectClass(js, js_reader_class_id);
   JS_SetOpaque(jszip, zip);
@@ -95,17 +101,16 @@ static JSValue js_miniz_compress(JSContext *js, JSValue this_val,
   size_t      in_len  = 0;
   const void *in_ptr  = NULL;
 
-  if (JS_IsString(argv[0])) {
+  if (JS_IsText(argv[0])) {
     /* String → UTF-8 bytes without the terminating NUL */
     cstring = JS_ToCStringLen(js, &in_len, argv[0]);
     if (!cstring)
       return JS_EXCEPTION;
     in_ptr = cstring;
-  } else {           /* assume ArrayBuffer / TypedArray */
+  } else { 
     in_ptr = js_get_blob_data(js, &in_len, argv[0]);
-    if (!in_ptr)
-      return JS_ThrowTypeError(js,
-              "Argument must be a string or ArrayBuffer");
+    if (in_ptr == -1)
+      return JS_EXCEPTION;
   }
 
   /* ─── 2. Allocate an output buffer big enough  ────────────── */
@@ -148,9 +153,8 @@ static JSValue js_miniz_decompress(JSContext *js,
   /* grab compressed data */
   size_t in_len;
   void  *in_ptr = js_get_blob_data(js, &in_len, argv[0]);
-  if (!in_ptr)
-    return JS_ThrowTypeError(js,
-            "decompress: first arg must be an ArrayBuffer");
+  if (in_ptr == -1)
+    return JS_EXCEPTION;
 
   /* zlib header present → tell tinfl to parse it */
   size_t out_len = 0;
@@ -162,15 +166,8 @@ static JSValue js_miniz_decompress(JSContext *js,
     return JS_ThrowInternalError(js,
             "miniz: decompression failed");
 
-  /* wrap for JS */
   JSValue ret;
-  int asString = (argc > 1) && JS_ToBool(js, argv[1]);
-
-//  if (asString)
     ret = JS_NewStringLen(js, (const char *)out_ptr, out_len);
-//  else
-//    ret = JS_NewArrayBufferCopy(js, out_ptr, out_len);
-
 #ifdef MZ_FREE
   MZ_FREE(out_ptr);
 #else
@@ -199,9 +196,9 @@ JSValue js_writer_add_file(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
   
   size_t dataLen;
   void *data = js_get_blob_data(js, &dataLen, argv[1]);
-  if (!data) {
+  if (data == -1) {
     JS_FreeCString(js, pathInZip);
-    return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "Second argument must be an ArrayBuffer");
+    return JS_EXCEPTION;
   }
 
   int success = mz_zip_writer_add_mem(zip, pathInZip, data, dataLen, MZ_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION);
@@ -220,6 +217,7 @@ static const JSCFunctionListEntry js_writer_funcs[] = {
 
 JSValue js_reader_mod(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
 {
+#ifndef MINIZ_NO_TIME
   const char *file = JS_ToCString(js,argv[0]);
   if (!file)
     return JS_EXCEPTION;
@@ -246,6 +244,9 @@ JSValue js_reader_mod(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
   }
   
   return JS_NewFloat64(js, pstat.m_time);
+#else
+  return JS_ThrowInternalError(js, "MINIZ_NO_TIME is defined");
+#endif
 }
 
 JSValue js_reader_exists(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
@@ -318,7 +319,7 @@ JSValue js_reader_list(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
       JS_FreeValue(js, arr);
       return filename;
     }
-    JS_SetPropertyUint32(js, arr, arr_index++, filename);
+    JS_SetPropertyNumber(js, arr, arr_index++, filename);
   }
   
   return arr;
@@ -365,7 +366,6 @@ JSValue js_reader_count(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
   mz_zip_archive *zip = js2reader(js, self);
   if (!zip)
     return JS_ThrowInternalError(js, "Invalid zip reader");
-    
   return JS_NewUint32(js, mz_zip_reader_get_num_files(zip));
 }
 
@@ -379,21 +379,23 @@ static const JSCFunctionListEntry js_reader_funcs[] = {
   JS_CFUNC_DEF("count", 0, js_reader_count),
 };
 
-JSValue js_miniz_use(JSContext *js)
+JSValue js_core_miniz_use(JSContext *js)
 {
+  JS_FRAME(js);
+
   JS_NewClassID(&js_reader_class_id);
-  JS_NewClass(JS_GetRuntime(js), js_reader_class_id, &js_reader_class);
-  JSValue reader_proto = JS_NewObject(js);
-  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, reader_proto, js_reader_funcs, sizeof(js_reader_funcs) / sizeof(JSCFunctionListEntry));
-  JS_SetClassProto(js, js_reader_class_id, reader_proto);
+  JS_NewClass(js, js_reader_class_id, &js_reader_class);
+  JS_ROOT(reader_proto, JS_NewObject(js));
+  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, reader_proto.val, js_reader_funcs, sizeof(js_reader_funcs) / sizeof(JSCFunctionListEntry));
+  JS_SetClassProto(js, js_reader_class_id, reader_proto.val);
 
   JS_NewClassID(&js_writer_class_id);
-  JS_NewClass(JS_GetRuntime(js), js_writer_class_id, &js_writer_class);
-  JSValue writer_proto = JS_NewObject(js);
-  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, writer_proto, js_writer_funcs, sizeof(js_writer_funcs) / sizeof(JSCFunctionListEntry));
-  JS_SetClassProto(js, js_writer_class_id, writer_proto);
-  
-  JSValue export = JS_NewObject(js);
-  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, export, js_miniz_funcs, sizeof(js_miniz_funcs)/sizeof(JSCFunctionListEntry));
-  return export;
+  JS_NewClass(js, js_writer_class_id, &js_writer_class);
+  JS_ROOT(writer_proto, JS_NewObject(js));
+  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, writer_proto.val, js_writer_funcs, sizeof(js_writer_funcs) / sizeof(JSCFunctionListEntry));
+  JS_SetClassProto(js, js_writer_class_id, writer_proto.val);
+
+  JS_ROOT(export, JS_NewObject(js));
+  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, export.val, js_miniz_funcs, sizeof(js_miniz_funcs)/sizeof(JSCFunctionListEntry));
+  JS_RETURN(export.val);
 }

bench.ce

@@ -0,0 +1,591 @@
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var pkg = use('package')
+var fd = use('fd')
+var time = use('time')
+var json = use('json')
+var blob = use('blob')
+var os = use('os')
+var testlib = use('internal/testlib')
+var math = use('math/radians')
+
+var _args = args == null ? [] : args
+
+var target_pkg = null // null = current package
+var target_bench = null // null = all benchmarks, otherwise specific bench file
+var all_pkgs = false
+
+// Benchmark configuration
+def WARMUP_BATCHES = 3
+def SAMPLES = 11 // Number of timing samples to collect
+def TARGET_SAMPLE_NS = 20000000 // 20ms per sample (fast mode)
+def MIN_SAMPLE_NS = 2000000 // 2ms minimum sample duration
+def MIN_BATCH_SIZE = 1
+def MAX_BATCH_SIZE = 100000000 // 100M iterations max per batch
+
+// Statistical functions
+function median(arr) {
+  if (length(arr) == 0) return 0
+  var sorted = sort(arr)
+  var mid = floor(length(arr) / 2)
+  if (length(arr) % 2 == 0) {
+    return (sorted[mid - 1] + sorted[mid]) / 2
+  }
+  return sorted[mid]
+}
+
+function mean(arr) {
+  if (length(arr) == 0) return 0
+  var sum = 0
+  arrfor(arr, function(val) {
+    sum += val
+  })
+  return sum / length(arr)
+}
+
+function stddev(arr, mean_val) {
+  if (length(arr) < 2) return 0
+  var sum_sq_diff = 0
+  arrfor(arr, function(val) {
+    var diff = val - mean_val
+    sum_sq_diff += diff * diff
+  })
+  return math.sqrt(sum_sq_diff / (length(arr) - 1))
+}
+
+function percentile(arr, p) {
+  if (length(arr) == 0) return 0
+  var sorted = sort(arr)
+  var idx = floor(length(arr) * p / 100)
+  if (idx >= length(arr)) idx = length(arr) - 1
+  return sorted[idx]
+}
+
+// Parse arguments similar to test.ce
+function parse_args() {
+  var name = null
+  var lock = null
+  var resolved = null
+  var bench_path = null
+
+  if (length(_args) == 0) {
+    if (!testlib.is_valid_package('.')) {
+      log.console('No cell.toml found in current directory')
+      return false
+    }
+    target_pkg = null
+    return true
+  }
+
+  if (_args[0] == 'all') {
+    if (!testlib.is_valid_package('.')) {
+      log.console('No cell.toml found in current directory')
+      return false
+    }
+    target_pkg = null
+    return true
+  }
+
+  if (_args[0] == 'package') {
+    if (length(_args) < 2) {
+      log.console('Usage: cell bench package <name> [bench]')
+      log.console('       cell bench package all')
+      return false
+    }
+
+    if (_args[1] == 'all') {
+      all_pkgs = true
+      log.console('Benchmarking all packages...')
+      return true
+    }
+
+    name = _args[1]
+    lock = shop.load_lock()
+    if (lock[name]) {
+      target_pkg = name
+    } else if (starts_with(name, '/') && testlib.is_valid_package(name)) {
+      target_pkg = name
+    } else {
+      if (testlib.is_valid_package('.')) {
+        resolved = pkg.alias_to_package(null, name)
+        if (resolved) {
+          target_pkg = resolved
+        } else {
+          log.console(`Package not found: ${name}`)
+          return false
+        }
+      } else {
+        log.console(`Package not found: ${name}`)
+        return false
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (length(_args) >= 3) {
+      target_bench = _args[2]
+    }
+
+    log.console(`Benchmarking package: ${target_pkg}`)
+    return true
+  }
+
+  // cell bench benches/suite or cell bench <path>
+  bench_path = _args[0]
+
+  // Normalize path - add benches/ prefix if not present
+  if (!starts_with(bench_path, 'benches/') && !starts_with(bench_path, '/')) {
+    if (!fd.is_file(bench_path + '.cm') && !fd.is_file(bench_path)) {
+      if (fd.is_file('benches/' + bench_path + '.cm') || fd.is_file('benches/' + bench_path)) {
+        bench_path = 'benches/' + bench_path
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  target_bench = bench_path
+  target_pkg = null
+
+  if (!testlib.is_valid_package('.')) {
+    log.console('No cell.toml found in current directory')
+    return false
+  }
+
+  return true
+}
+
+if (!parse_args()) {
+  $stop()
+  return
+}
+
+// Collect benchmark files from a package
+function collect_benches(package_name, specific_bench) {
+  var prefix = testlib.get_pkg_dir(package_name)
+  var benches_dir = prefix + '/benches'
+
+  if (!fd.is_dir(benches_dir)) return []
+
+  var files = pkg.list_files(package_name)
+  var bench_files = []
+  arrfor(files, function(f) {
+    var bench_name = null
+    var match_name = null
+    var match_base = null
+    if (starts_with(f, "benches/") && ends_with(f, ".cm")) {
+      if (specific_bench) {
+        bench_name = text(f, 0, -3)
+        match_name = specific_bench
+        if (!starts_with(match_name, 'benches/')) match_name = 'benches/' + match_name
+        match_base = ends_with(match_name, '.cm') ? text(match_name, 0, -3) : match_name
+        if (bench_name != match_base) return
+      }
+      push(bench_files, f)
+    }
+  })
+  return bench_files
+}
+
+// Calibrate batch size for a benchmark
+function calibrate_batch_size(bench_fn, is_batch) {
+  if (!is_batch) return 1
+
+  var n = MIN_BATCH_SIZE
+  var dt = 0
+  var start = 0
+  var new_n = 0
+  var calc = 0
+  var target_n = 0
+
+  // Find a batch size that takes at least MIN_SAMPLE_NS
+  while (n < MAX_BATCH_SIZE) {
+    if (!is_number(n) || n < 1) {
+      n = 1
+      break
+    }
+
+    start = os.now()
+    bench_fn(n)
+    dt = os.now() - start
+
+    if (dt >= MIN_SAMPLE_NS) break
+
+    new_n = n * 2
+    if (!is_number(new_n) || new_n > MAX_BATCH_SIZE) {
+      n = MAX_BATCH_SIZE
+      break
+    }
+    n = new_n
+  }
+
+  // Adjust to target sample duration
+  if (dt > 0 && dt < TARGET_SAMPLE_NS && is_number(n) && is_number(dt)) {
+    calc = n * TARGET_SAMPLE_NS / dt
+    if (is_number(calc) && calc > 0) {
+      target_n = floor(calc)
+      if (is_number(target_n) && target_n > 0) {
+        if (target_n > MAX_BATCH_SIZE) target_n = MAX_BATCH_SIZE
+        if (target_n < MIN_BATCH_SIZE) target_n = MIN_BATCH_SIZE
+        n = target_n
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!is_number(n) || n < 1) {
+    n = 1
+  }
+
+  return n
+}
+
+// Run a single benchmark function
+function run_single_bench(bench_fn, bench_name) {
+  var timings_per_op = []
+  var is_structured = is_object(bench_fn) && bench_fn.run
+  var is_batch = false
+  var batch_size = 1
+  var setup_fn = null
+  var run_fn = null
+  var teardown_fn = null
+  var calibrate_fn = null
+  var _detect = null
+  var i = 0
+  var state = null
+  var start = 0
+  var duration = 0
+  var ns_per_op = 0
+
+  if (is_structured) {
+    setup_fn = bench_fn.setup || function() { return null }
+    run_fn = bench_fn.run
+    teardown_fn = bench_fn.teardown || function(s) {}
+
+    // Check if run function accepts batch size
+    _detect = function() {
+      var test_state = setup_fn()
+      run_fn(1, test_state)
+      is_batch = true
+      if (teardown_fn) teardown_fn(test_state)
+    } disruption {
+      is_batch = false
+    }
+    _detect()
+
+    calibrate_fn = function(n) {
+      var s = setup_fn()
+      run_fn(n, s)
+      if (teardown_fn) teardown_fn(s)
+    }
+    batch_size = calibrate_batch_size(calibrate_fn, is_batch)
+
+    if (!is_number(batch_size) || batch_size < 1) {
+      batch_size = 1
+    }
+  } else {
+    // Simple function format
+    _detect = function() {
+      bench_fn(1)
+      is_batch = true
+    } disruption {
+      is_batch = false
+    }
+    _detect()
+    batch_size = calibrate_batch_size(bench_fn, is_batch)
+  }
+
+  if (!batch_size || batch_size < 1) {
+    batch_size = 1
+  }
+
+  // Warmup phase
+  for (i = 0; i < WARMUP_BATCHES; i++) {
+    if (!is_number(batch_size) || batch_size < 1) {
+      batch_size = 1
+    }
+
+    if (is_structured) {
+      state = setup_fn()
+      if (is_batch) {
+        run_fn(batch_size, state)
+      } else {
+        run_fn(state)
+      }
+      if (teardown_fn) teardown_fn(state)
+    } else {
+      if (is_batch) {
+        bench_fn(batch_size)
+      } else {
+        bench_fn()
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Measurement phase - collect SAMPLES timing samples
+  for (i = 0; i < SAMPLES; i++) {
+    if (!is_number(batch_size) || batch_size < 1) {
+      batch_size = 1
+    }
+
+    if (is_structured) {
+      state = setup_fn()
+      start = os.now()
+      if (is_batch) {
+        run_fn(batch_size, state)
+      } else {
+        run_fn(state)
+      }
+      duration = os.now() - start
+      if (teardown_fn) teardown_fn(state)
+
+      ns_per_op = is_batch ? duration / batch_size : duration
+      push(timings_per_op, ns_per_op)
+    } else {
+      start = os.now()
+      if (is_batch) {
+        bench_fn(batch_size)
+      } else {
+        bench_fn()
+      }
+      duration = os.now() - start
+
+      ns_per_op = is_batch ? duration / batch_size : duration
+      push(timings_per_op, ns_per_op)
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Calculate statistics
+  var mean_ns = mean(timings_per_op)
+  var median_ns = median(timings_per_op)
+  var min_ns = reduce(timings_per_op, min)
+  var max_ns = reduce(timings_per_op, max)
+  var stddev_ns = stddev(timings_per_op, mean_ns)
+  var p95_ns = percentile(timings_per_op, 95)
+  var p99_ns = percentile(timings_per_op, 99)
+
+  var ops_per_sec = 0
+  if (median_ns > 0) {
+    ops_per_sec = floor(1000000000 / median_ns)
+  }
+
+  return {
+    name: bench_name,
+    batch_size: batch_size,
+    samples: SAMPLES,
+    mean_ns: round(mean_ns),
+    median_ns: round(median_ns),
+    min_ns: round(min_ns),
+    max_ns: round(max_ns),
+    stddev_ns: round(stddev_ns),
+    p95_ns: round(p95_ns),
+    p99_ns: round(p99_ns),
+    ops_per_sec: ops_per_sec
+  }
+}
+
+// Format nanoseconds for display
+function format_ns(ns) {
+  if (ns < 1000) return `${ns}ns`
+  if (ns < 1000000) return `${round(ns / 1000 * 100) / 100}µs`
+  if (ns < 1000000000) return `${round(ns / 1000000 * 100) / 100}ms`
+  return `${round(ns / 1000000000 * 100) / 100}s`
+}
+
+// Format ops/sec for display
+function format_ops(ops) {
+  if (ops < 1000) return `${ops} ops/s`
+  if (ops < 1000000) return `${round(ops / 1000 * 100) / 100}K ops/s`
+  if (ops < 1000000000) return `${round(ops / 1000000 * 100) / 100}M ops/s`
+  return `${round(ops / 1000000000 * 100) / 100}G ops/s`
+}
+
+// Run benchmarks for a package
+function run_benchmarks(package_name, specific_bench) {
+  var bench_files = collect_benches(package_name, specific_bench)
+
+  var pkg_result = {
+    package: package_name || "local",
+    files: [],
+    total: 0
+  }
+
+  if (length(bench_files) == 0) return pkg_result
+
+  if (package_name) log.console(`Running benchmarks for ${package_name}`)
+  else log.console(`Running benchmarks for local package`)
+
+  arrfor(bench_files, function(f) {
+    var mod_path = text(f, 0, -3)
+    var load_error = false
+    var bench_mod = null
+    var use_pkg = null
+    var benches = []
+    var error_result = null
+
+    var file_result = {
+      name: f,
+      benchmarks: []
+    }
+
+    var _load_file = function() {
+      use_pkg = package_name ? package_name : fd.realpath('.')
+      bench_mod = shop.use(mod_path, use_pkg)
+
+      if (is_function(bench_mod)) {
+        push(benches, {name: 'main', fn: bench_mod})
+      } else if (is_object(bench_mod)) {
+        arrfor(array(bench_mod), function(k) {
+          if (is_function(bench_mod[k]))
+            push(benches, {name: k, fn: bench_mod[k]})
+        })
+      }
+
+      if (length(benches) > 0) {
+        log.console(`  ${f}`)
+        arrfor(benches, function(b) {
+          var bench_error = false
+          var result = null
+
+          var _run_bench = function() {
+            result = run_single_bench(b.fn, b.name)
+            result.package = pkg_result.package
+            push(file_result.benchmarks, result)
+            pkg_result.total++
+
+            log.console(`    ${result.name}`)
+            log.console(`      ${format_ns(result.median_ns)}/op  ${format_ops(result.ops_per_sec)}`)
+            log.console(`      min: ${format_ns(result.min_ns)}  max: ${format_ns(result.max_ns)}  stddev: ${format_ns(result.stddev_ns)}`)
+            if (result.batch_size > 1) {
+              log.console(`      batch: ${result.batch_size}  samples: ${result.samples}`)
+            }
+          } disruption {
+            bench_error = true
+          }
+          _run_bench()
+          if (bench_error) {
+            log.console(`    ERROR ${b.name}`)
+            error_result = {
+              package: pkg_result.package,
+              name: b.name,
+              error: "benchmark disrupted"
+            }
+            push(file_result.benchmarks, error_result)
+            pkg_result.total++
+          }
+        })
+      }
+    } disruption {
+      load_error = true
+    }
+    _load_file()
+    if (load_error) {
+      log.console(`  Error loading ${f}`)
+      error_result = {
+        package: pkg_result.package,
+        name: "load_module",
+        error: "error loading module"
+      }
+      push(file_result.benchmarks, error_result)
+      pkg_result.total++
+    }
+
+    if (length(file_result.benchmarks) > 0) {
+      push(pkg_result.files, file_result)
+    }
+  })
+
+  return pkg_result
+}
+
+// Run all benchmarks
+var all_results = []
+var packages = null
+
+if (all_pkgs) {
+  if (testlib.is_valid_package('.')) {
+    push(all_results, run_benchmarks(null, null))
+  }
+
+  packages = shop.list_packages()
+  arrfor(packages, function(p) {
+    push(all_results, run_benchmarks(p, null))
+  })
+} else {
+  push(all_results, run_benchmarks(target_pkg, target_bench))
+}
+
+// Calculate totals
+var total_benches = 0
+arrfor(all_results, function(result) {
+  total_benches += result.total
+})
+
+log.console(`----------------------------------------`)
+log.console(`Benchmarks: ${total_benches} total`)
+
+// Generate reports
+function generate_reports() {
+  var timestamp = text(floor(time.number()))
+  var report_dir = shop.get_reports_dir() + '/bench_' + timestamp
+  testlib.ensure_dir(report_dir)
+
+  var txt_report = `BENCHMARK REPORT
+Date: ${time.text(time.number())}
+Total benchmarks: ${total_benches}
+
+=== SUMMARY ===
+`
+  arrfor(all_results, function(pkg_res) {
+    if (pkg_res.total == 0) return
+    txt_report += `Package: ${pkg_res.package}\n`
+    arrfor(pkg_res.files, function(f) {
+      txt_report += `  ${f.name}\n`
+      arrfor(f.benchmarks, function(b) {
+        if (b.error) {
+          txt_report += `    ERROR ${b.name}: ${b.error}\n`
+        } else {
+          txt_report += `    ${b.name}: ${format_ns(b.median_ns)}/op (${format_ops(b.ops_per_sec)})\n`
+        }
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
+  txt_report += `\n=== DETAILED RESULTS ===\n`
+  arrfor(all_results, function(pkg_res) {
+    if (pkg_res.total == 0) return
+
+    arrfor(pkg_res.files, function(f) {
+      arrfor(f.benchmarks, function(b) {
+        if (b.error) return
+
+        txt_report += `\n${pkg_res.package}::${b.name}\n`
+        txt_report += `  batch_size: ${b.batch_size}  samples: ${b.samples}\n`
+        txt_report += `  median: ${format_ns(b.median_ns)}/op\n`
+        txt_report += `  mean: ${format_ns(b.mean_ns)}/op\n`
+        txt_report += `  min: ${format_ns(b.min_ns)}\n`
+        txt_report += `  max: ${format_ns(b.max_ns)}\n`
+        txt_report += `  stddev: ${format_ns(b.stddev_ns)}\n`
+        txt_report += `  p95: ${format_ns(b.p95_ns)}\n`
+        txt_report += `  p99: ${format_ns(b.p99_ns)}\n`
+        txt_report += `  ops/s: ${format_ops(b.ops_per_sec)}\n`
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
+  testlib.ensure_dir(report_dir)
+  fd.slurpwrite(`${report_dir}/bench.txt`, stone(blob(txt_report)))
+  log.console(`Report written to ${report_dir}/bench.txt`)
+
+  // Generate JSON per package
+  arrfor(all_results, function(pkg_res) {
+    if (pkg_res.total == 0) return
+
+    var pkg_benches = []
+    arrfor(pkg_res.files, function(f) {
+      arrfor(f.benchmarks, function(benchmark) {
+        push(pkg_benches, benchmark)
+      })
+    })
+
+    var json_path = `${report_dir}/${replace(pkg_res.package, /\//, '_')}.json`
+    fd.slurpwrite(json_path, stone(blob(json.encode(pkg_benches))))
+  })
+}
+
+generate_reports()
+$stop()

bench_native.ce

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+// bench_native.ce — compare VM vs native execution speed
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cell --dev bench_native.ce <module.cm> [iterations]
+//
+// Compiles (if needed) and benchmarks a module via both VM and native dylib.
+// Reports median/mean timing per benchmark + speedup ratio.
+
+var os = use('os')
+var fd = use('fd')
+
+if (length(args) < 1) {
+  print('usage: cell --dev bench_native.ce <module.cm> [iterations]')
+  return
+}
+
+var file = args[0]
+var name = file
+if (ends_with(name, '.cm')) {
+  name = text(name, 0, length(name) - 3)
+}
+
+var iterations = 11
+if (length(args) > 1) {
+  iterations = number(args[1])
+}
+
+def WARMUP = 3
+
+var safe = replace(replace(name, '/', '_'), '-', '_')
+var symbol = 'js_' + safe + '_use'
+var dylib_path = './' + file + '.dylib'
+
+// --- Statistics ---
+
+var stat_sort = function(arr) {
+  return sort(arr)
+}
+
+var stat_median = function(arr) {
+  if (length(arr) == 0) return 0
+  var sorted = stat_sort(arr)
+  var mid = floor(length(arr) / 2)
+  if (length(arr) % 2 == 0) {
+    return (sorted[mid - 1] + sorted[mid]) / 2
+  }
+  return sorted[mid]
+}
+
+var stat_mean = function(arr) {
+  if (length(arr) == 0) return 0
+  var sum = reduce(arr, function(a, b) { return a + b })
+  return sum / length(arr)
+}
+
+var format_ns = function(ns) {
+  if (ns < 1000) return text(round(ns)) + 'ns'
+  if (ns < 1000000) return text(round(ns / 1000 * 100) / 100) + 'us'
+  if (ns < 1000000000) return text(round(ns / 1000000 * 100) / 100) + 'ms'
+  return text(round(ns / 1000000000 * 100) / 100) + 's'
+}
+
+// --- Collect benchmarks from module ---
+
+var collect_benches = function(mod) {
+  var benches = []
+  var keys = null
+  var i = 0
+  var k = null
+  if (is_function(mod)) {
+    push(benches, {name: 'main', fn: mod})
+  } else if (is_object(mod)) {
+    keys = array(mod)
+    i = 0
+    while (i < length(keys)) {
+      k = keys[i]
+      if (is_function(mod[k])) {
+        push(benches, {name: k, fn: mod[k]})
+      }
+      i = i + 1
+    }
+  }
+  return benches
+}
+
+// --- Run one benchmark function ---
+
+var run_bench = function(fn, label) {
+  var samples = []
+  var i = 0
+  var t1 = 0
+  var t2 = 0
+
+  // warmup
+  i = 0
+  while (i < WARMUP) {
+    fn(1)
+    i = i + 1
+  }
+
+  // collect samples
+  i = 0
+  while (i < iterations) {
+    t1 = os.now()
+    fn(1)
+    t2 = os.now()
+    push(samples, t2 - t1)
+    i = i + 1
+  }
+
+  return {
+    label: label,
+    median: stat_median(samples),
+    mean: stat_mean(samples)
+  }
+}
+
+// --- Load VM module ---
+
+print('loading VM module: ' + file)
+var vm_mod = use(name)
+var vm_benches = collect_benches(vm_mod)
+
+if (length(vm_benches) == 0) {
+  print('no benchmarkable functions found in ' + file)
+  return
+}
+
+// --- Load native module ---
+
+var native_mod = null
+var native_benches = []
+var has_native = fd.is_file(dylib_path)
+var lib = null
+
+if (has_native) {
+  print('loading native module: ' + dylib_path)
+  lib = os.dylib_open(dylib_path)
+  native_mod = os.dylib_symbol(lib, symbol)
+  native_benches = collect_benches(native_mod)
+} else {
+  print('no ' + dylib_path + ' found -- VM-only benchmarking')
+  print('  hint: cell --dev compile.ce ' + file)
+}
+
+// --- Run benchmarks ---
+
+print('')
+print('samples: ' + text(iterations) + ' (warmup: ' + text(WARMUP) + ')')
+print('')
+
+var pad = function(s, n) {
+  var result = s
+  while (length(result) < n) result = result + ' '
+  return result
+}
+
+var i = 0
+var b = null
+var vm_result = null
+var j = 0
+var found = false
+var nat_result = null
+var speedup = 0
+while (i < length(vm_benches)) {
+  b = vm_benches[i]
+  vm_result = run_bench(b.fn, 'vm')
+
+  print(pad(b.name, 20) + '  VM: ' + pad(format_ns(vm_result.median), 12) + ' (median)  ' + format_ns(vm_result.mean) + ' (mean)')
+
+  // find matching native bench
+  j = 0
+  found = false
+  while (j < length(native_benches)) {
+    if (native_benches[j].name == b.name) {
+      nat_result = run_bench(native_benches[j].fn, 'native')
+      print(pad('', 20) + '  NT: ' + pad(format_ns(nat_result.median), 12) + ' (median)  ' + format_ns(nat_result.mean) + ' (mean)')
+
+      if (nat_result.median > 0) {
+        speedup = vm_result.median / nat_result.median
+        print(pad('', 20) + '  speedup: ' + text(round(speedup * 100) / 100) + 'x')
+      }
+      found = true
+    }
+    j = j + 1
+  }
+
+  if (has_native && !found) {
+    print(pad('', 20) + '  NT: (no matching function)')
+  }
+
+  print('')
+  i = i + 1
+}

benches/actor_patterns.cm

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+// actor_patterns.cm — Actor concurrency benchmarks
+// Message passing, fan-out/fan-in, mailbox throughput.
+// These use structured benchmarks with setup/run/teardown.
+
+// Note: actor benchmarks are measured differently from pure compute.
+// Each iteration sends messages and waits for results, so they're
+// inherently slower but test real concurrency costs.
+
+// Simple ping-pong: two actors sending messages back and forth
+// Since we can't create real actors from a module, we simulate
+// the message-passing patterns with function call overhead that
+// mirrors what the actor dispatch does.
+
+// Simulate message dispatch overhead
+function make_mailbox() {
+  return {
+    queue: [],
+    delivered: 0
+  }
+}
+
+function send(mailbox, msg) {
+  push(mailbox.queue, msg)
+  return null
+}
+
+function receive(mailbox) {
+  if (length(mailbox.queue) == 0) return null
+  mailbox.delivered++
+  return pop(mailbox.queue)
+}
+
+function drain(mailbox) {
+  var count = 0
+  while (length(mailbox.queue) > 0) {
+    pop(mailbox.queue)
+    count++
+  }
+  return count
+}
+
+// Ping-pong: simulate two actors exchanging messages
+function ping_pong(rounds) {
+  var box_a = make_mailbox()
+  var box_b = make_mailbox()
+  var i = 0
+  var msg = null
+
+  send(box_a, {type: "ping", val: 0})
+
+  for (i = 0; i < rounds; i++) {
+    // A receives and sends to B
+    msg = receive(box_a)
+    if (msg) {
+      send(box_b, {type: "pong", val: msg.val + 1})
+    }
+    // B receives and sends to A
+    msg = receive(box_b)
+    if (msg) {
+      send(box_a, {type: "ping", val: msg.val + 1})
+    }
+  }
+
+  return box_a.delivered + box_b.delivered
+}
+
+// Fan-out: one sender, N receivers
+function fan_out(n_receivers, messages_per) {
+  var receivers = []
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n_receivers; i++) {
+    push(receivers, make_mailbox())
+  }
+
+  // Send messages to all receivers
+  for (j = 0; j < messages_per; j++) {
+    for (i = 0; i < n_receivers; i++) {
+      send(receivers[i], {seq: j, data: j * 17})
+    }
+  }
+
+  // All receivers drain
+  var total = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n_receivers; i++) {
+    total += drain(receivers[i])
+  }
+
+  return total
+}
+
+// Fan-in: N senders, one receiver
+function fan_in(n_senders, messages_per) {
+  var inbox = make_mailbox()
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+
+  // Each sender sends messages
+  for (i = 0; i < n_senders; i++) {
+    for (j = 0; j < messages_per; j++) {
+      send(inbox, {sender: i, seq: j, data: i * 100 + j})
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Receiver processes all
+  var total = 0
+  var msg = null
+  msg = receive(inbox)
+  while (msg) {
+    total += msg.data
+    msg = receive(inbox)
+  }
+
+  return total
+}
+
+// Pipeline: chain of processors
+function pipeline(stages, items) {
+  var boxes = []
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var msg = null
+
+  for (i = 0; i <= stages; i++) {
+    push(boxes, make_mailbox())
+  }
+
+  // Feed input
+  for (i = 0; i < items; i++) {
+    send(boxes[0], {val: i})
+  }
+
+  // Process each stage
+  for (j = 0; j < stages; j++) {
+    msg = receive(boxes[j])
+    while (msg) {
+      send(boxes[j + 1], {val: msg.val * 2 + 1})
+      msg = receive(boxes[j])
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Drain output
+  var total = 0
+  msg = receive(boxes[stages])
+  while (msg) {
+    total += msg.val
+    msg = receive(boxes[stages])
+  }
+
+  return total
+}
+
+// Request-response pattern (simulate RPC)
+function request_response(n_requests) {
+  var client_box = make_mailbox()
+  var server_box = make_mailbox()
+  var i = 0
+  var req = null
+  var resp = null
+  var total = 0
+
+  for (i = 0; i < n_requests; i++) {
+    // Client sends request
+    send(server_box, {id: i, payload: i * 3, reply_to: client_box})
+
+    // Server processes
+    req = receive(server_box)
+    if (req) {
+      send(req.reply_to, {id: req.id, result: req.payload * 2 + 1})
+    }
+
+    // Client receives response
+    resp = receive(client_box)
+    if (resp) {
+      total += resp.result
+    }
+  }
+
+  return total
+}
+
+return {
+  // Ping-pong: 10K rounds
+  ping_pong_10k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += ping_pong(10000)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Fan-out: 100 receivers, 100 messages each
+  fan_out_100x100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += fan_out(100, 100)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Fan-in: 100 senders, 100 messages each
+  fan_in_100x100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += fan_in(100, 100)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Pipeline: 10 stages, 1000 items
+  pipeline_10x1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += pipeline(10, 1000)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Request-response: 5K requests
+  rpc_5k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += request_response(5000)
+    }
+    return x
+  }
+}

benches/cli_tool.cm

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+// cli_tool.cm — CLI tool simulation (macro benchmark)
+// Parse args + process data + transform + format output.
+// Simulates a realistic small utility program.
+
+var json = use('json')
+
+// Generate fake records
+function generate_records(n) {
+  var records = []
+  var x = 42
+  var i = 0
+  var status_vals = ["active", "inactive", "pending", "archived"]
+  var dept_vals = ["eng", "sales", "ops", "hr", "marketing"]
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    x = ((x * 1103515245 + 12345) & 0x7FFFFFFF) | 0
+    push(records, {
+      id: i + 1,
+      name: `user_${i}`,
+      score: (x % 1000) / 10,
+      status: status_vals[i % 4],
+      department: dept_vals[i % 5]
+    })
+  }
+  return records
+}
+
+// Filter records by field value
+function filter_records(records, field, value) {
+  var result = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < length(records); i++) {
+    if (records[i][field] == value) {
+      push(result, records[i])
+    }
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Group by a field
+function group_by(records, field) {
+  var groups = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var key = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(records); i++) {
+    key = records[i][field]
+    if (!key) key = "unknown"
+    if (!groups[key]) groups[key] = []
+    push(groups[key], records[i])
+  }
+  return groups
+}
+
+// Aggregate: compute stats per group
+function aggregate(groups) {
+  var keys = array(groups)
+  var result = []
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var grp = null
+  var total = 0
+  var mn = 0
+  var mx = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < length(keys); i++) {
+    grp = groups[keys[i]]
+    total = 0
+    mn = 999999
+    mx = 0
+    for (j = 0; j < length(grp); j++) {
+      total += grp[j].score
+      if (grp[j].score < mn) mn = grp[j].score
+      if (grp[j].score > mx) mx = grp[j].score
+    }
+    push(result, {
+      group: keys[i],
+      count: length(grp),
+      average: total / length(grp),
+      low: mn,
+      high: mx
+    })
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Full pipeline: load → filter → sort → group → aggregate → encode
+function run_pipeline(n_records) {
+  // Generate data
+  var records = generate_records(n_records)
+
+  // Filter to active records
+  var filtered = filter_records(records, "status", "active")
+
+  // Sort by score
+  filtered = sort(filtered, "score")
+
+  // Limit to first 50
+  if (length(filtered) > 50) {
+    filtered = array(filtered, 0, 50)
+  }
+
+  // Group and aggregate
+  var groups = group_by(filtered, "department")
+  var stats = aggregate(groups)
+  stats = sort(stats, "average")
+
+  // Encode as JSON
+  var output = json.encode(stats)
+
+  return length(output)
+}
+
+return {
+  // Small dataset (100 records)
+  cli_pipeline_100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += run_pipeline(100)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Medium dataset (1000 records)
+  cli_pipeline_1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += run_pipeline(1000)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Large dataset (10K records)
+  cli_pipeline_10k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += run_pipeline(10000)
+    }
+    return x
+  }
+}

benches/deltablue.cm

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+// deltablue.cm — Constraint solver kernel (DeltaBlue-inspired)
+// Dynamic dispatch, pointer chasing, object-heavy workload.
+
+def REQUIRED = 0
+def STRONG = 1
+def NORMAL = 2
+def WEAK = 3
+def WEAKEST = 4
+
+function make_variable(name, value) {
+  return {
+    name: name,
+    value: value,
+    constraints: [],
+    determined_by: null,
+    stay: true,
+    mark: 0
+  }
+}
+
+function make_constraint(strength, variables, satisfy_fn) {
+  return {
+    strength: strength,
+    variables: variables,
+    satisfy: satisfy_fn,
+    output: null
+  }
+}
+
+// Constraint propagation: simple forward solver
+function propagate(vars, constraints) {
+  var changed = true
+  var passes = 0
+  var max_passes = length(constraints) * 3
+  var i = 0
+  var c = null
+  var old_val = 0
+
+  while (changed && passes < max_passes) {
+    changed = false
+    passes++
+    for (i = 0; i < length(constraints); i++) {
+      c = constraints[i]
+      old_val = c.output ? c.output.value : null
+      c.satisfy(c)
+      if (c.output && c.output.value != old_val) {
+        changed = true
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return passes
+}
+
+// Build a chain of equality constraints: v[i] = v[i-1] + 1
+function build_chain(n) {
+  var vars = []
+  var constraints = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    push(vars, make_variable(`v${i}`, 0))
+  }
+
+  // Set first variable
+  vars[0].value = 1
+
+  var c = null
+  for (i = 1; i < n; i++) {
+    c = make_constraint(NORMAL, [vars[i - 1], vars[i]], function(self) {
+      self.variables[1].value = self.variables[0].value + 1
+      self.output = self.variables[1]
+    })
+    push(constraints, c)
+    push(vars[i].constraints, c)
+  }
+
+  return {vars: vars, constraints: constraints}
+}
+
+// Build a projection: pairs of variables with scaling constraints
+function build_projection(n) {
+  var src = []
+  var dst = []
+  var constraints = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    push(src, make_variable(`src${i}`, i * 10))
+    push(dst, make_variable(`dst${i}`, 0))
+  }
+
+  var scale_c = null
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    scale_c = make_constraint(STRONG, [src[i], dst[i]], function(self) {
+      self.variables[1].value = self.variables[0].value * 2 + 1
+      self.output = self.variables[1]
+    })
+    push(constraints, scale_c)
+    push(dst[i].constraints, scale_c)
+  }
+
+  return {src: src, dst: dst, constraints: constraints}
+}
+
+// Edit constraint: change a source, re-propagate
+function run_edits(system, edits) {
+  var i = 0
+  var total_passes = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < edits; i++) {
+    system.vars[0].value = i
+    total_passes += propagate(system.vars, system.constraints)
+  }
+  return total_passes
+}
+
+return {
+  // Chain of 100 variables, propagate
+  chain_100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var chain = null
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      chain = build_chain(100)
+      x += propagate(chain.vars, chain.constraints)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Chain of 500 variables, propagate
+  chain_500: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var chain = null
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      chain = build_chain(500)
+      x += propagate(chain.vars, chain.constraints)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Projection of 100 pairs
+  projection_100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var proj = null
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      proj = build_projection(100)
+      x += propagate(proj.src, proj.constraints)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Edit and re-propagate (incremental update)
+  chain_edit_100: function(n) {
+    var chain = build_chain(100)
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      chain.vars[0].value = i
+      x += propagate(chain.vars, chain.constraints)
+    }
+    return x
+  }
+}

benches/fibonacci.cm

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+// fibonacci.cm — Fibonacci variants kernel
+// Tests recursion overhead, memoization patterns, iteration vs recursion.
+
+// Naive recursive (exponential) — measures call overhead
+function fib_naive(n) {
+  if (n <= 1) return n
+  return fib_naive(n - 1) + fib_naive(n - 2)
+}
+
+// Iterative (linear)
+function fib_iter(n) {
+  var a = 0
+  var b = 1
+  var i = 0
+  var tmp = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    tmp = a + b
+    a = b
+    b = tmp
+  }
+  return a
+}
+
+// Memoized recursive (tests object property lookup + recursion)
+function make_memo_fib() {
+  var cache = {}
+  var fib = function(n) {
+    var key = text(n)
+    if (cache[key]) return cache[key]
+    var result = null
+    if (n <= 1) {
+      result = n
+    } else {
+      result = fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)
+    }
+    cache[key] = result
+    return result
+  }
+  return fib
+}
+
+// CPS (continuation passing style) — tests closure creation
+function fib_cps(n, cont) {
+  if (n <= 1) return cont(n)
+  return fib_cps(n - 1, function(a) {
+    return fib_cps(n - 2, function(b) {
+      return cont(a + b)
+    })
+  })
+}
+
+// Matrix exponentiation style (accumulator)
+function fib_matrix(n) {
+  var a = 1
+  var b = 0
+  var c = 0
+  var d = 1
+  var ta = 0
+  var tb = 0
+  var m = n
+  while (m > 0) {
+    if (m % 2 == 1) {
+      ta = a * d + b * c // wrong but stresses numeric ops
+      tb = b * d + a * c
+      a = ta
+      b = tb
+    }
+    ta = c * c + d * d
+    tb = d * (2 * c + d)
+    c = ta
+    d = tb
+    m = floor(m / 2)
+  }
+  return b
+}
+
+return {
+  fib_naive_25: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x += fib_naive(25)
+    return x
+  },
+
+  fib_naive_30: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x += fib_naive(30)
+    return x
+  },
+
+  fib_iter_80: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x += fib_iter(80)
+    return x
+  },
+
+  fib_memo_100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var fib = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      fib = make_memo_fib()
+      x += fib(100)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  fib_cps_20: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var identity = function(v) { return v }
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += fib_cps(20, identity)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  fib_matrix_80: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x += fib_matrix(80)
+    return x
+  }
+}

benches/hash_workload.cm

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+// hash_workload.cm — Hash-heavy / word-count / map-reduce kernel
+// Stresses record (object) creation, property access, and string handling.
+
+function make_words(count) {
+  // Generate a repeating word list to simulate text processing
+  var base_words = [
+    "the", "quick", "brown", "fox", "jumps", "over", "lazy", "dog",
+    "and", "cat", "sat", "on", "mat", "with", "hat", "bat",
+    "alpha", "beta", "gamma", "delta", "epsilon", "zeta", "eta", "theta",
+    "hello", "world", "foo", "bar", "baz", "qux", "quux", "corge"
+  ]
+  var words = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+    push(words, base_words[i % length(base_words)])
+  }
+  return words
+}
+
+// Word frequency count
+function word_count(words) {
+  var freq = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var w = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(words); i++) {
+    w = words[i]
+    if (freq[w]) {
+      freq[w] = freq[w] + 1
+    } else {
+      freq[w] = 1
+    }
+  }
+  return freq
+}
+
+// Find top-N words by frequency
+function top_n(freq, n) {
+  var keys = array(freq)
+  var pairs = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < length(keys); i++) {
+    push(pairs, {word: keys[i], count: freq[keys[i]]})
+  }
+  var sorted = sort(pairs, "count")
+  // Return last N (highest counts)
+  var result = []
+  var start = length(sorted) - n
+  if (start < 0) start = 0
+  for (i = start; i < length(sorted); i++) {
+    push(result, sorted[i])
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Histogram: group words by length
+function group_by_length(words) {
+  var groups = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var w = null
+  var k = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(words); i++) {
+    w = words[i]
+    k = text(length(w))
+    if (!groups[k]) groups[k] = []
+    push(groups[k], w)
+  }
+  return groups
+}
+
+// Simple hash table with chaining (stress property access patterns)
+function hash_table_ops(n) {
+  var table = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var k = null
+  var collisions = 0
+
+  // Insert phase
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    k = `key_${i % 512}`
+    if (table[k]) collisions++
+    table[k] = i
+  }
+
+  // Lookup phase
+  var found = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    k = `key_${i % 512}`
+    if (table[k]) found++
+  }
+
+  // Delete phase
+  var deleted = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i += 3) {
+    k = `key_${i % 512}`
+    if (table[k]) {
+      delete table[k]
+      deleted++
+    }
+  }
+
+  return found - deleted + collisions
+}
+
+var words_1k = make_words(1000)
+var words_10k = make_words(10000)
+
+return {
+  // Word count on 1K words
+  wordcount_1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var freq = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      freq = word_count(words_1k)
+    }
+    return freq
+  },
+
+  // Word count on 10K words
+  wordcount_10k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var freq = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      freq = word_count(words_10k)
+    }
+    return freq
+  },
+
+  // Word count + top-10 extraction
+  wordcount_top10: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var freq = null
+    var top = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      freq = word_count(words_10k)
+      top = top_n(freq, 10)
+    }
+    return top
+  },
+
+  // Group words by length
+  group_by_len: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var groups = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      groups = group_by_length(words_10k)
+    }
+    return groups
+  },
+
+  // Hash table insert/lookup/delete
+  hash_table: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += hash_table_ops(2048)
+    }
+    return x
+  }
+}

benches/json_walk.cm

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+// json_walk.cm — JSON parse + walk + serialize kernel
+// Stresses strings, records, arrays, and recursive traversal.
+
+var json = use('json')
+
+function make_nested_object(depth, breadth) {
+  var obj = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var k = null
+  if (depth <= 0) {
+    for (i = 0; i < breadth; i++) {
+      k = `key_${i}`
+      obj[k] = i * 3.14
+    }
+    return obj
+  }
+  for (i = 0; i < breadth; i++) {
+    k = `node_${i}`
+    obj[k] = make_nested_object(depth - 1, breadth)
+  }
+  obj.value = depth
+  obj.name = `level_${depth}`
+  return obj
+}
+
+function make_array_data(size) {
+  var arr = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
+    push(arr, {
+      id: i,
+      name: `item_${i}`,
+      active: i % 2 == 0,
+      score: i * 1.5,
+      tags: [`tag_${i % 5}`, `tag_${(i + 1) % 5}`]
+    })
+  }
+  return arr
+}
+
+// Walk an object tree, counting nodes
+function walk_count(obj) {
+  var count = 1
+  var keys = null
+  var i = 0
+  var v = null
+  if (is_object(obj)) {
+    keys = array(obj)
+    for (i = 0; i < length(keys); i++) {
+      v = obj[keys[i]]
+      if (is_object(v) || is_array(v)) {
+        count += walk_count(v)
+      }
+    }
+  } else if (is_array(obj)) {
+    for (i = 0; i < length(obj); i++) {
+      v = obj[i]
+      if (is_object(v) || is_array(v)) {
+        count += walk_count(v)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return count
+}
+
+// Walk and extract all numbers
+function walk_sum(obj) {
+  var sum = 0
+  var keys = null
+  var i = 0
+  var v = null
+  if (is_object(obj)) {
+    keys = array(obj)
+    for (i = 0; i < length(keys); i++) {
+      v = obj[keys[i]]
+      if (is_number(v)) {
+        sum += v
+      } else if (is_object(v) || is_array(v)) {
+        sum += walk_sum(v)
+      }
+    }
+  } else if (is_array(obj)) {
+    for (i = 0; i < length(obj); i++) {
+      v = obj[i]
+      if (is_number(v)) {
+        sum += v
+      } else if (is_object(v) || is_array(v)) {
+        sum += walk_sum(v)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return sum
+}
+
+// Pre-build test data strings
+var nested_obj = make_nested_object(3, 4)
+var nested_json = json.encode(nested_obj)
+var array_data = make_array_data(200)
+var array_json = json.encode(array_data)
+
+return {
+  // Parse nested JSON
+  json_parse_nested: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var obj = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      obj = json.decode(nested_json)
+    }
+    return obj
+  },
+
+  // Parse array-of-records JSON
+  json_parse_array: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var arr = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      arr = json.decode(array_json)
+    }
+    return arr
+  },
+
+  // Encode nested object to JSON
+  json_encode_nested: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      s = json.encode(nested_obj)
+    }
+    return s
+  },
+
+  // Encode array to JSON
+  json_encode_array: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      s = json.encode(array_data)
+    }
+    return s
+  },
+
+  // Parse + walk + count
+  json_roundtrip_walk: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var obj = null
+    var count = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      obj = json.decode(nested_json)
+      count += walk_count(obj)
+    }
+    return count
+  },
+
+  // Parse + sum all numbers + re-encode
+  json_roundtrip_full: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var obj = null
+    var sum = 0
+    var out = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      obj = json.decode(array_json)
+      sum += walk_sum(obj)
+      out = json.encode(obj)
+    }
+    return sum
+  }
+}

benches/micro_ops.cm

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+// micro_ops.cm — microbenchmarks for core operations
+
+function blackhole(sink, x) {
+  return (sink + (x | 0)) | 0
+}
+
+function make_obj_xy(x, y) {
+  return {x: x, y: y}
+}
+
+function make_obj_yx(x, y) {
+  // Different insertion order to force a different shape
+  return {y: y, x: x}
+}
+
+function make_shapes(n) {
+  var out = []
+  var i = 0
+  var o = null
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    o = {a: i}
+    o[`p${i}`] = i
+    push(out, o)
+  }
+  return out
+}
+
+function make_packed_array(n) {
+  var a = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) push(a, i)
+  return a
+}
+
+function make_holey_array(n) {
+  var a = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i += 2) a[i] = i
+  return a
+}
+
+return {
+  // 0) Baseline loop cost
+  loop_empty: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {}
+    return blackhole(sink, n)
+  },
+
+  // 1) Numeric pipelines
+  i32_add: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 1
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = (x + 3) | 0
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  f64_add: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 1.0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = x + 3.14159
+    return blackhole(sink, x | 0)
+  },
+
+  mixed_add: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 1
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = x + 0.25
+    return blackhole(sink, x | 0)
+  },
+
+  bit_ops: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0x12345678
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = ((x << 5) ^ (x >>> 3)) | 0
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  overflow_path: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0x70000000
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = (x + 0x10000000) | 0
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 2) Branching
+  branch_predictable: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      if ((i & 7) != 0) x++
+      else x += 2
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  branch_alternating: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      if ((i & 1) == 0) x++
+      else x += 2
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 3) Calls
+  call_direct: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var f = function(a) { return (a + 1) | 0 }
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = f(x)
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  call_indirect: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var f = function(a) { return (a + 1) | 0 }
+    var g = f
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = g(x)
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  call_closure: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var make_adder = function(k) {
+      return function(a) { return (a + k) | 0 }
+    }
+    var add3 = make_adder(3)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = add3(x)
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  call_multi_arity: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var f0 = function() { return 1 }
+    var f1 = function(a) { return a + 1 }
+    var f2 = function(a, b) { return a + b }
+    var f3 = function(a, b, c) { return a + b + c }
+    var f4 = function(a, b, c, d) { return a + b + c + d }
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x = (x + f0() + f1(i) + f2(i, 1) + f3(i, 1, 2) + f4(i, 1, 2, 3)) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 4) Object props (ICs / shapes)
+  prop_read_mono: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var o = make_obj_xy(1, 2)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = (x + o.x) | 0
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  prop_read_poly_2: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_obj_xy(1, 2)
+    var b = make_obj_yx(1, 2)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var o = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      o = (i & 1) == 0 ? a : b
+      x = (x + o.x) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  prop_read_poly_4: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var shapes = [
+      {x: 1, y: 2},
+      {y: 2, x: 1},
+      {x: 1, z: 3, y: 2},
+      {w: 0, x: 1, y: 2}
+    ]
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x = (x + shapes[i & 3].x) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  prop_read_mega: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var objs = make_shapes(32)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x = (x + objs[i & 31].a) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  prop_write_mono: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var o = make_obj_xy(1, 2)
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) o.x = (o.x + 1) | 0
+    return blackhole(sink, o.x)
+  },
+
+  // 5) Arrays
+  array_read_packed: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_packed_array(1024)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = (x + a[i & 1023]) | 0
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  array_write_packed: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_packed_array(1024)
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) a[i & 1023] = i
+    return blackhole(sink, a[17] | 0)
+  },
+
+  array_read_holey: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_holey_array(2048)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var v = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      v = a[(i & 2047)]
+      if (v) x = (x + v) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  array_push_steady: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var a = null
+    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
+      a = []
+      for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) push(a, i)
+      x = (x + length(a)) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  array_push_pop: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = []
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var v = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      push(a, i)
+      if (length(a) > 64) {
+        v = pop(a)
+        x = (x + v) | 0
+      }
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  array_indexed_sum: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_packed_array(1024)
+    var x = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
+      x = 0
+      for (i = 0; i < 1024; i++) {
+        x = (x + a[i]) | 0
+      }
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 6) Strings
+  string_concat_small: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
+      s = ""
+      for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) s = s + "x"
+      x = (x + length(s)) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  string_concat_medium: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
+      s = ""
+      for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) s = s + "abcdefghij"
+      x = (x + length(s)) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  string_interpolation: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      s = `item_${i}_value_${i * 2}`
+      x = (x + length(s)) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  string_slice: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var base = "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      s = text(base, i % 10, i % 10 + 10)
+      x = (x + length(s)) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 7) Allocation / GC pressure
+  alloc_tiny_objects: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var o = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      o = {a: i, b: i + 1, c: i + 2}
+      x = (x + o.b) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  alloc_linked_list: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var head = null
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var p = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) head = {v: i, next: head}
+    x = 0
+    p = head
+    while (p) {
+      x = (x + p.v) | 0
+      p = p.next
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  alloc_arrays: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var a = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      a = [i, i + 1, i + 2, i + 3]
+      x = (x + a[2]) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  alloc_short_lived: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var o = null
+    // Allocate objects that immediately become garbage
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      o = {val: i, data: {inner: i + 1}}
+      x = (x + o.data.inner) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  alloc_long_lived_pressure: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var store = []
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var o = null
+    // Keep first 1024 objects alive, churn the rest
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      o = {val: i, data: i * 2}
+      if (i < 1024) {
+        push(store, o)
+      }
+      x = (x + o.data) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 8) Meme (prototype clone)
+  meme_clone_read: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var base = {x: 1, y: 2}
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var o = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      o = meme(base)
+      x = (x + o.x) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 9) Guard / type check paths
+  guard_hot_number: function(n) {
+    // Monomorphic number path — guards should hoist
+    var sink = 0
+    var x = 1
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) x = x + 1
+    return blackhole(sink, x | 0)
+  },
+
+  guard_mixed_types: function(n) {
+    // Alternating number/text — guards must stay
+    var sink = 0
+    var vals = [1, "a", 2, "b", 3, "c", 4, "d"]
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      if (is_number(vals[i & 7])) x = (x + vals[i & 7]) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  // 10) Reduce / higher-order
+  reduce_sum: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_packed_array(256)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x = (x + reduce(a, function(acc, v) { return acc + v }, 0)) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  filter_evens: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_packed_array(256)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x = (x + length(filter(a, function(v) { return v % 2 == 0 }))) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  },
+
+  arrfor_sum: function(n) {
+    var sink = 0
+    var a = make_packed_array(256)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    var sum = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      sum = 0
+      arrfor(a, function(v) { sum += v })
+      x = (x + sum) | 0
+    }
+    return blackhole(sink, x)
+  }
+}

benches/module_load.cm

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+// module_load.cm — Module loading simulation (macro benchmark)
+// Simulates parsing many small modules, linking, and running.
+// Tests the "build scenario" pattern.
+
+var json = use('json')
+
+// Simulate a small module: parse token stream + build AST + evaluate
+function tokenize(src) {
+  var tokens = []
+  var i = 0
+  var ch = null
+  var chars = array(src)
+  var buf = ""
+
+  for (i = 0; i < length(chars); i++) {
+    ch = chars[i]
+    if (ch == " " || ch == "\n" || ch == "\t") {
+      if (length(buf) > 0) {
+        push(tokens, buf)
+        buf = ""
+      }
+    } else if (ch == "(" || ch == ")" || ch == "+" || ch == "-"
+            || ch == "*" || ch == "=" || ch == ";" || ch == ",") {
+      if (length(buf) > 0) {
+        push(tokens, buf)
+        buf = ""
+      }
+      push(tokens, ch)
+    } else {
+      buf = buf + ch
+    }
+  }
+  if (length(buf) > 0) push(tokens, buf)
+  return tokens
+}
+
+// Build a simple AST from tokens
+function parse_tokens(tokens) {
+  var ast = []
+  var i = 0
+  var tok = null
+  var node = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(tokens); i++) {
+    tok = tokens[i]
+    if (tok == "var" || tok == "def") {
+      node = {type: "decl", kind: tok, name: null, value: null}
+      i++
+      if (i < length(tokens)) node.name = tokens[i]
+      i++ // skip =
+      i++
+      if (i < length(tokens)) node.value = tokens[i]
+      push(ast, node)
+    } else if (tok == "return") {
+      node = {type: "return", value: null}
+      i++
+      if (i < length(tokens)) node.value = tokens[i]
+      push(ast, node)
+    } else if (tok == "function") {
+      node = {type: "func", name: null, body: []}
+      i++
+      if (i < length(tokens)) node.name = tokens[i]
+      // Skip to matching )
+      while (i < length(tokens) && tokens[i] != ")") i++
+      push(ast, node)
+    } else {
+      push(ast, {type: "expr", value: tok})
+    }
+  }
+  return ast
+}
+
+// Evaluate: simple symbol table + resolution
+function evaluate(ast, env) {
+  var result = null
+  var i = 0
+  var node = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(ast); i++) {
+    node = ast[i]
+    if (node.type == "decl") {
+      env[node.name] = node.value
+    } else if (node.type == "return") {
+      result = node.value
+      if (env[result]) result = env[result]
+    } else if (node.type == "func") {
+      env[node.name] = node
+    }
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Generate fake module source code
+function generate_module(id, dep_count) {
+  var src = ""
+  var i = 0
+  src = src + "var _id = " + text(id) + ";\n"
+  for (i = 0; i < dep_count; i++) {
+    src = src + "var dep" + text(i) + " = use(mod_" + text(i) + ");\n"
+  }
+  src = src + "var x = " + text(id * 17) + ";\n"
+  src = src + "var y = " + text(id * 31) + ";\n"
+  src = src + "function compute(a, b) { return a + b; }\n"
+  src = src + "var result = compute(x, y);\n"
+  src = src + "return result;\n"
+  return src
+}
+
+// Simulate loading N modules with dependency chains
+function simulate_build(n_modules, deps_per_module) {
+  var modules = []
+  var loaded = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var src = null
+  var tokens = null
+  var ast = null
+  var env = null
+  var result = null
+  var total_tokens = 0
+  var total_nodes = 0
+
+  // Generate all module sources
+  for (i = 0; i < n_modules; i++) {
+    src = generate_module(i, deps_per_module)
+    push(modules, src)
+  }
+
+  // "Load" each module: tokenize → parse → evaluate
+  for (i = 0; i < n_modules; i++) {
+    tokens = tokenize(modules[i])
+    total_tokens += length(tokens)
+
+    ast = parse_tokens(tokens)
+    total_nodes += length(ast)
+
+    env = {}
+    // Resolve dependencies
+    for (j = 0; j < deps_per_module; j++) {
+      if (j < i) {
+        env["dep" + text(j)] = loaded["mod_" + text(j)]
+      }
+    }
+
+    result = evaluate(ast, env)
+    loaded["mod_" + text(i)] = result
+  }
+
+  return {
+    modules: n_modules,
+    total_tokens: total_tokens,
+    total_nodes: total_nodes,
+    last_result: result
+  }
+}
+
+// Dependency graph analysis (topological sort simulation)
+function topo_sort(n_modules, deps_per_module) {
+  // Build adjacency list
+  var adj = {}
+  var in_degree = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var name = null
+  var dep = null
+
+  for (i = 0; i < n_modules; i++) {
+    name = "mod_" + text(i)
+    adj[name] = []
+    in_degree[name] = 0
+  }
+
+  for (i = 0; i < n_modules; i++) {
+    name = "mod_" + text(i)
+    for (j = 0; j < deps_per_module; j++) {
+      if (j < i) {
+        dep = "mod_" + text(j)
+        push(adj[dep], name)
+        in_degree[name] = in_degree[name] + 1
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Kahn's algorithm
+  var queue = []
+  var keys = array(in_degree)
+  for (i = 0; i < length(keys); i++) {
+    if (in_degree[keys[i]] == 0) push(queue, keys[i])
+  }
+
+  var order = []
+  var current = null
+  var neighbors = null
+  var qi = 0
+  while (qi < length(queue)) {
+    current = queue[qi]
+    qi++
+    push(order, current)
+    neighbors = adj[current]
+    if (neighbors) {
+      for (i = 0; i < length(neighbors); i++) {
+        in_degree[neighbors[i]] = in_degree[neighbors[i]] - 1
+        if (in_degree[neighbors[i]] == 0) push(queue, neighbors[i])
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return order
+}
+
+return {
+  // Small build: 50 modules, 3 deps each
+  build_50: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = simulate_build(50, 3)
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  // Medium build: 200 modules, 5 deps each
+  build_200: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = simulate_build(200, 5)
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  // Large build: 500 modules, 5 deps each
+  build_500: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = simulate_build(500, 5)
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  // Topo sort of 500 module dependency graph
+  topo_sort_500: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var order = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      order = topo_sort(500, 5)
+    }
+    return order
+  }
+}

benches/nbody.cm

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+// nbody.cm — N-body gravitational simulation kernel
+// Pure numeric + allocation workload. Classic VM benchmark.
+
+var math = use('math/radians')
+
+def PI = 3.141592653589793
+def SOLAR_MASS = 4 * PI * PI
+def DAYS_PER_YEAR = 365.24
+
+function make_system() {
+  // Sun + 4 Jovian planets
+  var sun = {x: 0, y: 0, z: 0, vx: 0, vy: 0, vz: 0, mass: SOLAR_MASS}
+
+  var jupiter = {
+    x: 4.84143144246472090,
+    y: -1.16032004402742839,
+    z: -0.103622044471123109,
+    vx: 0.00166007664274403694 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vy: 0.00769901118419740425 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vz: -0.0000690460016972063023 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    mass: 0.000954791938424326609 * SOLAR_MASS
+  }
+
+  var saturn = {
+    x: 8.34336671824457987,
+    y: 4.12479856412430479,
+    z: -0.403523417114321381,
+    vx: -0.00276742510726862411 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vy: 0.00499852801234917238 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vz: 0.0000230417297573763929 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    mass: 0.000285885980666130812 * SOLAR_MASS
+  }
+
+  var uranus = {
+    x: 12.8943695621391310,
+    y: -15.1111514016986312,
+    z: -0.223307578892655734,
+    vx: 0.00296460137564761618 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vy: 0.00237847173959480950 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vz: -0.0000296589568540237556 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    mass: 0.0000436624404335156298 * SOLAR_MASS
+  }
+
+  var neptune = {
+    x: 15.3796971148509165,
+    y: -25.9193146099879641,
+    z: 0.179258772950371181,
+    vx: 0.00268067772490389322 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vy: 0.00162824170038242295 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    vz: -0.0000951592254519715870 * DAYS_PER_YEAR,
+    mass: 0.0000515138902046611451 * SOLAR_MASS
+  }
+
+  var bodies = [sun, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune]
+
+  // Offset momentum
+  var px = 0
+  var py = 0
+  var pz = 0
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < length(bodies); i++) {
+    px += bodies[i].vx * bodies[i].mass
+    py += bodies[i].vy * bodies[i].mass
+    pz += bodies[i].vz * bodies[i].mass
+  }
+  sun.vx = -px / SOLAR_MASS
+  sun.vy = -py / SOLAR_MASS
+  sun.vz = -pz / SOLAR_MASS
+
+  return bodies
+}
+
+function advance(bodies, dt) {
+  var n = length(bodies)
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var bi = null
+  var bj = null
+  var dx = 0
+  var dy = 0
+  var dz = 0
+  var dist_sq = 0
+  var dist = 0
+  var mag = 0
+
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    bi = bodies[i]
+    for (j = i + 1; j < n; j++) {
+      bj = bodies[j]
+      dx = bi.x - bj.x
+      dy = bi.y - bj.y
+      dz = bi.z - bj.z
+      dist_sq = dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz
+      dist = math.sqrt(dist_sq)
+      mag = dt / (dist_sq * dist)
+
+      bi.vx -= dx * bj.mass * mag
+      bi.vy -= dy * bj.mass * mag
+      bi.vz -= dz * bj.mass * mag
+      bj.vx += dx * bi.mass * mag
+      bj.vy += dy * bi.mass * mag
+      bj.vz += dz * bi.mass * mag
+    }
+  }
+
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    bi = bodies[i]
+    bi.x += dt * bi.vx
+    bi.y += dt * bi.vy
+    bi.z += dt * bi.vz
+  }
+}
+
+function energy(bodies) {
+  var e = 0
+  var n = length(bodies)
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var bi = null
+  var bj = null
+  var dx = 0
+  var dy = 0
+  var dz = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    bi = bodies[i]
+    e += 0.5 * bi.mass * (bi.vx * bi.vx + bi.vy * bi.vy + bi.vz * bi.vz)
+    for (j = i + 1; j < n; j++) {
+      bj = bodies[j]
+      dx = bi.x - bj.x
+      dy = bi.y - bj.y
+      dz = bi.z - bj.z
+      e -= (bi.mass * bj.mass) / math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz)
+    }
+  }
+  return e
+}
+
+return {
+  nbody_1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var bodies = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      bodies = make_system()
+      for (j = 0; j < 1000; j++) advance(bodies, 0.01)
+      energy(bodies)
+    }
+  },
+
+  nbody_10k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var bodies = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      bodies = make_system()
+      for (j = 0; j < 10000; j++) advance(bodies, 0.01)
+      energy(bodies)
+    }
+  }
+}

benches/ray_tracer.cm

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+// ray_tracer.cm — Simple ray tracer kernel
+// Control flow + numeric + allocation. Classic VM benchmark.
+
+var math = use('math/radians')
+
+function vec(x, y, z) {
+  return {x: x, y: y, z: z}
+}
+
+function vadd(a, b) {
+  return {x: a.x + b.x, y: a.y + b.y, z: a.z + b.z}
+}
+
+function vsub(a, b) {
+  return {x: a.x - b.x, y: a.y - b.y, z: a.z - b.z}
+}
+
+function vmul(v, s) {
+  return {x: v.x * s, y: v.y * s, z: v.z * s}
+}
+
+function vdot(a, b) {
+  return a.x * b.x + a.y * b.y + a.z * b.z
+}
+
+function vnorm(v) {
+  var len = math.sqrt(vdot(v, v))
+  if (len == 0) return vec(0, 0, 0)
+  return vmul(v, 1 / len)
+}
+
+function make_sphere(center, radius, color) {
+  return {
+    center: center,
+    radius: radius,
+    color: color
+  }
+}
+
+function intersect_sphere(origin, dir, sphere) {
+  var oc = vsub(origin, sphere.center)
+  var b = vdot(oc, dir)
+  var c = vdot(oc, oc) - sphere.radius * sphere.radius
+  var disc = b * b - c
+  if (disc < 0) return -1
+  var sq = math.sqrt(disc)
+  var t1 = -b - sq
+  var t2 = -b + sq
+  if (t1 > 0.001) return t1
+  if (t2 > 0.001) return t2
+  return -1
+}
+
+function make_scene() {
+  var spheres = [
+    make_sphere(vec(0, -1, 5), 1, vec(1, 0, 0)),
+    make_sphere(vec(2, 0, 6), 1, vec(0, 1, 0)),
+    make_sphere(vec(-2, 0, 4), 1, vec(0, 0, 1)),
+    make_sphere(vec(0, 1, 4.5), 0.5, vec(1, 1, 0)),
+    make_sphere(vec(1, -0.5, 3), 0.3, vec(1, 0, 1)),
+    make_sphere(vec(0, -101, 5), 100, vec(0.5, 0.5, 0.5))
+  ]
+  var light = vnorm(vec(1, 1, -1))
+  return {spheres: spheres, light: light}
+}
+
+function trace(origin, dir, scene) {
+  var closest_t = 999999
+  var closest_sphere = null
+  var i = 0
+  var t = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < length(scene.spheres); i++) {
+    t = intersect_sphere(origin, dir, scene.spheres[i])
+    if (t > 0 && t < closest_t) {
+      closest_t = t
+      closest_sphere = scene.spheres[i]
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (!closest_sphere) return vec(0.2, 0.3, 0.5) // sky color
+
+  var hit = vadd(origin, vmul(dir, closest_t))
+  var normal = vnorm(vsub(hit, closest_sphere.center))
+  var diffuse = vdot(normal, scene.light)
+  if (diffuse < 0) diffuse = 0
+
+  // Shadow check
+  var shadow_origin = vadd(hit, vmul(normal, 0.001))
+  var in_shadow = false
+  for (i = 0; i < length(scene.spheres); i++) {
+    if (scene.spheres[i] != closest_sphere) {
+      t = intersect_sphere(shadow_origin, scene.light, scene.spheres[i])
+      if (t > 0) {
+        in_shadow = true
+        break
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  var ambient = 0.15
+  var intensity = in_shadow ? ambient : ambient + diffuse * 0.85
+  return vmul(closest_sphere.color, intensity)
+}
+
+function render(width, height, scene) {
+  var aspect = width / height
+  var fov = 1.0
+  var total_r = 0
+  var total_g = 0
+  var total_b = 0
+  var y = 0
+  var x = 0
+  var u = 0
+  var v = 0
+  var dir = null
+  var color = null
+  var origin = vec(0, 0, 0)
+
+  for (y = 0; y < height; y++) {
+    for (x = 0; x < width; x++) {
+      u = (2 * (x + 0.5) / width - 1) * aspect * fov
+      v = (1 - 2 * (y + 0.5) / height) * fov
+      dir = vnorm(vec(u, v, 1))
+      color = trace(origin, dir, scene)
+      total_r += color.x
+      total_g += color.y
+      total_b += color.z
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {r: total_r, g: total_g, b: total_b}
+}
+
+var scene = make_scene()
+
+return {
+  raytrace_32x32: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = render(32, 32, scene)
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  raytrace_64x64: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = render(64, 64, scene)
+    }
+    return result
+  }
+}

benches/richards.cm

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+// richards.cm — Richards benchmark (scheduler simulation)
+// Object-ish workload: dynamic dispatch, state machines, queuing.
+
+def IDLE = 0
+def WORKER = 1
+def HANDLER_A = 2
+def HANDLER_B = 3
+def DEVICE_A = 4
+def DEVICE_B = 5
+def NUM_TASKS = 6
+
+def TASK_RUNNING = 0
+def TASK_WAITING = 1
+def TASK_HELD = 2
+def TASK_SUSPENDED = 3
+
+function make_packet(link, id, kind) {
+  return {link: link, id: id, kind: kind, datum: 0, data: array(4, 0)}
+}
+
+function scheduler() {
+  var tasks = array(NUM_TASKS, null)
+  var current = null
+  var queue_count = 0
+  var hold_count = 0
+  var v1 = 0
+  var v2 = 0
+  var w_id = HANDLER_A
+  var w_datum = 0
+  var h_a_queue = null
+  var h_a_count = 0
+  var h_b_queue = null
+  var h_b_count = 0
+  var dev_a_pkt = null
+  var dev_b_pkt = null
+
+  var find_next = function() {
+    var best = null
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < NUM_TASKS; i++) {
+      if (tasks[i] && tasks[i].state == TASK_RUNNING) {
+        if (!best || tasks[i].priority > best.priority) {
+          best = tasks[i]
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return best
+  }
+
+  var hold_self = function() {
+    hold_count++
+    if (current) current.state = TASK_HELD
+    return find_next()
+  }
+
+  var release = function(id) {
+    var t = tasks[id]
+    if (!t) return find_next()
+    if (t.state == TASK_HELD) t.state = TASK_RUNNING
+    if (t.priority > (current ? current.priority : -1)) return t
+    return current
+  }
+
+  var queue_packet = function(pkt) {
+    var t = tasks[pkt.id]
+    var p = null
+    if (!t) return find_next()
+    queue_count++
+    pkt.link = null
+    pkt.id = current ? current.id : 0
+    if (!t.queue) {
+      t.queue = pkt
+      t.state = TASK_RUNNING
+      if (t.priority > (current ? current.priority : -1)) return t
+    } else {
+      p = t.queue
+      while (p.link) p = p.link
+      p.link = pkt
+    }
+    return current
+  }
+
+  // Idle task
+  tasks[IDLE] = {id: IDLE, priority: 0, queue: null, state: TASK_RUNNING,
+    hold_count: 0, queue_count: 0,
+    fn: function(pkt) {
+      v1--
+      if (v1 == 0) return hold_self()
+      if ((v2 & 1) == 0) {
+        v2 = v2 >> 1
+        return release(DEVICE_A)
+      }
+      v2 = (v2 >> 1) ^ 0xD008
+      return release(DEVICE_B)
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Worker task
+  tasks[WORKER] = {id: WORKER, priority: 1000, queue: null, state: TASK_SUSPENDED,
+    hold_count: 0, queue_count: 0,
+    fn: function(pkt) {
+      var i = 0
+      if (!pkt) return hold_self()
+      w_id = (w_id == HANDLER_A) ? HANDLER_B : HANDLER_A
+      pkt.id = w_id
+      pkt.datum = 0
+      for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
+        w_datum++
+        if (w_datum > 26) w_datum = 1
+        pkt.data[i] = 65 + w_datum
+      }
+      return queue_packet(pkt)
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Handler A
+  tasks[HANDLER_A] = {id: HANDLER_A, priority: 2000, queue: null, state: TASK_SUSPENDED,
+    hold_count: 0, queue_count: 0,
+    fn: function(pkt) {
+      var p = null
+      if (pkt) { h_a_queue = pkt; h_a_count++ }
+      if (h_a_queue) {
+        p = h_a_queue
+        h_a_queue = p.link
+        if (h_a_count < 3) return queue_packet(p)
+        return release(DEVICE_A)
+      }
+      return hold_self()
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Handler B
+  tasks[HANDLER_B] = {id: HANDLER_B, priority: 3000, queue: null, state: TASK_SUSPENDED,
+    hold_count: 0, queue_count: 0,
+    fn: function(pkt) {
+      var p = null
+      if (pkt) { h_b_queue = pkt; h_b_count++ }
+      if (h_b_queue) {
+        p = h_b_queue
+        h_b_queue = p.link
+        if (h_b_count < 3) return queue_packet(p)
+        return release(DEVICE_B)
+      }
+      return hold_self()
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Device A
+  tasks[DEVICE_A] = {id: DEVICE_A, priority: 4000, queue: null, state: TASK_SUSPENDED,
+    hold_count: 0, queue_count: 0,
+    fn: function(pkt) {
+      var p = null
+      if (pkt) { dev_a_pkt = pkt; return hold_self() }
+      if (dev_a_pkt) {
+        p = dev_a_pkt
+        dev_a_pkt = null
+        return queue_packet(p)
+      }
+      return hold_self()
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Device B
+  tasks[DEVICE_B] = {id: DEVICE_B, priority: 5000, queue: null, state: TASK_SUSPENDED,
+    hold_count: 0, queue_count: 0,
+    fn: function(pkt) {
+      var p = null
+      if (pkt) { dev_b_pkt = pkt; return hold_self() }
+      if (dev_b_pkt) {
+        p = dev_b_pkt
+        dev_b_pkt = null
+        return queue_packet(p)
+      }
+      return hold_self()
+    }
+  }
+
+  var run = function(iterations) {
+    var i = 0
+    var pkt1 = null
+    var pkt2 = null
+    var steps = 0
+    var pkt = null
+    var next = null
+
+    v1 = iterations
+    v2 = 0xBEEF
+    queue_count = 0
+    hold_count = 0
+    w_id = HANDLER_A
+    w_datum = 0
+    h_a_queue = null
+    h_a_count = 0
+    h_b_queue = null
+    h_b_count = 0
+    dev_a_pkt = null
+    dev_b_pkt = null
+
+    for (i = 0; i < NUM_TASKS; i++) {
+      if (tasks[i]) {
+        tasks[i].state = (i == IDLE) ? TASK_RUNNING : TASK_SUSPENDED
+        tasks[i].queue = null
+      }
+    }
+
+    pkt1 = make_packet(null, WORKER, 1)
+    pkt2 = make_packet(pkt1, WORKER, 1)
+    tasks[WORKER].queue = pkt2
+    tasks[WORKER].state = TASK_RUNNING
+
+    current = find_next()
+    while (current && steps < iterations * 10) {
+      pkt = current.queue
+      if (pkt) {
+        current.queue = pkt.link
+        current.queue_count++
+      }
+      next = current.fn(pkt)
+      if (next) current = next
+      else current = find_next()
+      steps++
+    }
+    return {queue_count: queue_count, hold_count: hold_count, steps: steps}
+  }
+
+  return {run: run}
+}
+
+return {
+  richards_100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      s = scheduler()
+      result = s.run(100)
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  richards_1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var s = null
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      s = scheduler()
+      result = s.run(1000)
+    }
+    return result
+  }
+}

benches/sorting.cm

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+// sorting.cm — Sorting and searching kernel
+// Array manipulation, comparison-heavy, allocation patterns.
+
+function make_random_array(n, seed) {
+  var a = []
+  var x = seed
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    x = ((x * 1103515245 + 12345) & 0x7FFFFFFF) | 0
+    push(a, x % 10000)
+  }
+  return a
+}
+
+function make_descending(n) {
+  var a = []
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = n - 1; i >= 0; i--) push(a, i)
+  return a
+}
+
+// Manual quicksort (tests recursion + array mutation)
+function qsort(arr, lo, hi) {
+  var i = lo
+  var j = hi
+  var pivot = arr[floor((lo + hi) / 2)]
+  var tmp = 0
+  if (lo >= hi) return null
+  while (i <= j) {
+    while (arr[i] < pivot) i++
+    while (arr[j] > pivot) j--
+    if (i <= j) {
+      tmp = arr[i]
+      arr[i] = arr[j]
+      arr[j] = tmp
+      i++
+      j--
+    }
+  }
+  if (lo < j) qsort(arr, lo, j)
+  if (i < hi) qsort(arr, i, hi)
+  return null
+}
+
+// Merge sort (tests allocation + array creation)
+function msort(arr) {
+  var n = length(arr)
+  if (n <= 1) return arr
+  var mid = floor(n / 2)
+  var left = msort(array(arr, 0, mid))
+  var right = msort(array(arr, mid, n))
+  return merge(left, right)
+}
+
+function merge(a, b) {
+  var result = []
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  while (i < length(a) && j < length(b)) {
+    if (a[i] <= b[j]) {
+      push(result, a[i])
+      i++
+    } else {
+      push(result, b[j])
+      j++
+    }
+  }
+  while (i < length(a)) {
+    push(result, a[i])
+    i++
+  }
+  while (j < length(b)) {
+    push(result, b[j])
+    j++
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Binary search
+function bsearch(arr, target) {
+  var lo = 0
+  var hi = length(arr) - 1
+  var mid = 0
+  while (lo <= hi) {
+    mid = floor((lo + hi) / 2)
+    if (arr[mid] == target) return mid
+    if (arr[mid] < target) lo = mid + 1
+    else hi = mid - 1
+  }
+  return -1
+}
+
+// Sort objects by field
+function sort_records(n) {
+  var records = []
+  var x = 42
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    x = ((x * 1103515245 + 12345) & 0x7FFFFFFF) | 0
+    push(records, {id: i, score: x % 10000, name: `item_${i}`})
+  }
+  return sort(records, "score")
+}
+
+return {
+  // Quicksort 1K random integers
+  qsort_1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var a = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      a = make_random_array(1000, i)
+      qsort(a, 0, length(a) - 1)
+    }
+    return a
+  },
+
+  // Quicksort 10K random integers
+  qsort_10k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var a = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      a = make_random_array(10000, i)
+      qsort(a, 0, length(a) - 1)
+    }
+    return a
+  },
+
+  // Merge sort 1K (allocation heavy)
+  msort_1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = msort(make_random_array(1000, i))
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  // Built-in sort 1K
+  builtin_sort_1k: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = sort(make_random_array(1000, i))
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  // Sort worst case (descending → ascending)
+  sort_worst_case: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var a = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      a = make_descending(1000)
+      qsort(a, 0, length(a) - 1)
+    }
+    return a
+  },
+
+  // Binary search in sorted array
+  bsearch_1k: function(n) {
+    var sorted = make_random_array(1000, 42)
+    sorted = sort(sorted)
+    var found = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      if (bsearch(sorted, sorted[i % 1000]) >= 0) found++
+    }
+    return found
+  },
+
+  // Sort records by field
+  sort_records_500: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = sort_records(500)
+    }
+    return result
+  }
+}

benches/spectral_norm.cm

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+// spectral_norm.cm — Spectral norm kernel
+// Pure numeric, dense array access, mathematical computation.
+
+var math = use('math/radians')
+
+function eval_a(i, j) {
+  return 1.0 / ((i + j) * (i + j + 1) / 2 + i + 1)
+}
+
+function eval_a_times_u(n, u, au) {
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var sum = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    sum = 0
+    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
+      sum += eval_a(i, j) * u[j]
+    }
+    au[i] = sum
+  }
+}
+
+function eval_at_times_u(n, u, atu) {
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var sum = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    sum = 0
+    for (j = 0; j < n; j++) {
+      sum += eval_a(j, i) * u[j]
+    }
+    atu[i] = sum
+  }
+}
+
+function eval_ata_times_u(n, u, atau) {
+  var v = array(n, 0)
+  eval_a_times_u(n, u, v)
+  eval_at_times_u(n, v, atau)
+}
+
+function spectral_norm(n) {
+  var u = array(n, 1)
+  var v = array(n, 0)
+  var i = 0
+  var vbv = 0
+  var vv = 0
+
+  for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+    eval_ata_times_u(n, u, v)
+    eval_ata_times_u(n, v, u)
+  }
+
+  vbv = 0
+  vv = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+    vbv += u[i] * v[i]
+    vv += v[i] * v[i]
+  }
+
+  return math.sqrt(vbv / vv)
+}
+
+return {
+  spectral_100: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = spectral_norm(100)
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  spectral_200: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = spectral_norm(200)
+    }
+    return result
+  }
+}

benches/string_processing.cm

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+// string_processing.cm — String-heavy kernel
+// Concat, split, search, replace, interning path stress.
+
+function make_lorem(paragraphs) {
+  var base = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua Ut enim ad minim veniam quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat"
+  var result = ""
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < paragraphs; i++) {
+    if (i > 0) result = result + " "
+    result = result + base
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Build a lookup table from text
+function build_index(txt) {
+  var words = array(txt, " ")
+  var index = {}
+  var i = 0
+  var w = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(words); i++) {
+    w = words[i]
+    if (!index[w]) {
+      index[w] = []
+    }
+    push(index[w], i)
+  }
+  return index
+}
+
+// Levenshtein-like distance (simplified)
+function edit_distance(a, b) {
+  var la = length(a)
+  var lb = length(b)
+  if (la == 0) return lb
+  if (lb == 0) return la
+
+  // Use flat array for 2 rows of DP matrix
+  var prev = array(lb + 1, 0)
+  var curr = array(lb + 1, 0)
+  var i = 0
+  var j = 0
+  var cost = 0
+  var del = 0
+  var ins = 0
+  var sub = 0
+  var tmp = null
+  var ca = array(a)
+  var cb = array(b)
+
+  for (j = 0; j <= lb; j++) prev[j] = j
+  for (i = 1; i <= la; i++) {
+    curr[0] = i
+    for (j = 1; j <= lb; j++) {
+      cost = ca[i - 1] == cb[j - 1] ? 0 : 1
+      del = prev[j] + 1
+      ins = curr[j - 1] + 1
+      sub = prev[j - 1] + cost
+      curr[j] = del
+      if (ins < curr[j]) curr[j] = ins
+      if (sub < curr[j]) curr[j] = sub
+    }
+    tmp = prev
+    prev = curr
+    curr = tmp
+  }
+  return prev[lb]
+}
+
+var lorem_5 = make_lorem(5)
+var lorem_20 = make_lorem(20)
+
+return {
+  // Split text into words and count
+  string_split_count: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var words = null
+    var count = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      words = array(lorem_5, " ")
+      count += length(words)
+    }
+    return count
+  },
+
+  // Build word index (split + hash + array ops)
+  string_index_build: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var idx = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      idx = build_index(lorem_5)
+    }
+    return idx
+  },
+
+  // Search for substrings
+  string_search: function(n) {
+    var targets = ["dolor", "minim", "quis", "magna", "ipsum"]
+    var i = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var count = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      for (j = 0; j < length(targets); j++) {
+        if (search(lorem_20, targets[j])) count++
+      }
+    }
+    return count
+  },
+
+  // Replace operations
+  string_replace: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = replace(lorem_5, "dolor", "DOLOR")
+      result = replace(result, "ipsum", "IPSUM")
+      result = replace(result, "amet", "AMET")
+    }
+    return result
+  },
+
+  // String concatenation builder
+  string_builder: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var s = null
+    var total = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      s = ""
+      for (j = 0; j < 50; j++) {
+        s = s + "key=" + text(j) + "&value=" + text(j * 17) + "&"
+      }
+      total += length(s)
+    }
+    return total
+  },
+
+  // Edit distance (DP + array + string ops)
+  edit_distance: function(n) {
+    var words = ["kitten", "sitting", "saturday", "sunday", "intention", "execution"]
+    var i = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var total = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      for (j = 0; j < length(words) - 1; j++) {
+        total += edit_distance(words[j], words[j + 1])
+      }
+    }
+    return total
+  },
+
+  // Upper/lower/trim chain
+  string_transforms: function(n) {
+    var src = "  Hello World  "
+    var i = 0
+    var x = 0
+    var result = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      result = trim(src)
+      result = upper(result)
+      result = lower(result)
+      x += length(result)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Starts_with / ends_with (interning path)
+  string_prefix_suffix: function(n) {
+    var strs = [
+      "application/json",
+      "text/html",
+      "image/png",
+      "application/xml",
+      "text/plain"
+    ]
+    var i = 0
+    var j = 0
+    var count = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      for (j = 0; j < length(strs); j++) {
+        if (starts_with(strs[j], "application/")) count++
+        if (ends_with(strs[j], "/json")) count++
+        if (starts_with(strs[j], "text/")) count++
+      }
+    }
+    return count
+  }
+}

benches/tree_ops.cm

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+// tree_ops.cm — Tree data structure operations kernel
+// Pointer chasing, recursion, allocation patterns.
+
+// Binary tree: create, walk, transform, check
+function make_tree(depth) {
+  if (depth <= 0) return {val: 1, left: null, right: null}
+  return {
+    val: depth,
+    left: make_tree(depth - 1),
+    right: make_tree(depth - 1)
+  }
+}
+
+function tree_check(node) {
+  if (!node) return 0
+  if (!node.left) return node.val
+  return node.val + tree_check(node.left) - tree_check(node.right)
+}
+
+function tree_sum(node) {
+  if (!node) return 0
+  return node.val + tree_sum(node.left) + tree_sum(node.right)
+}
+
+function tree_depth(node) {
+  if (!node) return 0
+  var l = tree_depth(node.left)
+  var r = tree_depth(node.right)
+  return 1 + (l > r ? l : r)
+}
+
+function tree_count(node) {
+  if (!node) return 0
+  return 1 + tree_count(node.left) + tree_count(node.right)
+}
+
+// Transform tree: map values
+function tree_map(node, fn) {
+  if (!node) return null
+  return {
+    val: fn(node.val),
+    left: tree_map(node.left, fn),
+    right: tree_map(node.right, fn)
+  }
+}
+
+// Flatten tree to array (in-order)
+function tree_flatten(node, result) {
+  if (!node) return null
+  tree_flatten(node.left, result)
+  push(result, node.val)
+  tree_flatten(node.right, result)
+  return null
+}
+
+// Build sorted tree from array (balanced)
+function build_balanced(arr, lo, hi) {
+  if (lo > hi) return null
+  var mid = floor((lo + hi) / 2)
+  return {
+    val: arr[mid],
+    left: build_balanced(arr, lo, mid - 1),
+    right: build_balanced(arr, mid + 1, hi)
+  }
+}
+
+// Find a value in BST
+function bst_find(node, val) {
+  if (!node) return false
+  if (val == node.val) return true
+  if (val < node.val) return bst_find(node.left, val)
+  return bst_find(node.right, val)
+}
+
+return {
+  // Binary tree create + check (allocation heavy)
+  tree_create_check: function(n) {
+    var i = 0
+    var t = null
+    var x = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      t = make_tree(10)
+      x += tree_check(t)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Deep tree traversals
+  tree_traversal: function(n) {
+    var t = make_tree(12)
+    var x = 0
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      x += tree_sum(t) + tree_depth(t) + tree_count(t)
+    }
+    return x
+  },
+
+  // Tree map (create new tree from old)
+  tree_transform: function(n) {
+    var t = make_tree(10)
+    var i = 0
+    var mapped = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      mapped = tree_map(t, function(v) { return v * 2 + 1 })
+    }
+    return mapped
+  },
+
+  // Flatten + rebuild (array <-> tree conversion)
+  tree_flatten_rebuild: function(n) {
+    var t = make_tree(10)
+    var i = 0
+    var flat = null
+    var rebuilt = null
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      flat = []
+      tree_flatten(t, flat)
+      rebuilt = build_balanced(flat, 0, length(flat) - 1)
+    }
+    return rebuilt
+  },
+
+  // BST search (pointer chasing)
+  bst_search: function(n) {
+    // Build a balanced BST of 1024 elements
+    var data = []
+    var i = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < 1024; i++) push(data, i)
+    var bst = build_balanced(data, 0, 1023)
+    var found = 0
+    for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+      if (bst_find(bst, i % 1024)) found++
+    }
+    return found
+  }
+}

benchmarks/binarytree.ce

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 function mainThread() {
-  var maxDepth = Math.max(6, Number(arg[0] || 16));
+  var maxDepth = max(6, Number(arg[0] || 16));
 
   var stretchDepth = maxDepth + 1;
   var check = itemCheck(bottomUpTree(stretchDepth));
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ function mainThread() {
 
   var longLivedTree = bottomUpTree(maxDepth);
 
-  for (let depth = 4; depth <= maxDepth; depth += 2) {
+  for (var depth = 4; depth <= maxDepth; depth += 2) {
     var iterations = 1 << maxDepth - depth + 4;
     work(iterations, depth);
   }
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ function mainThread() {
 }
 
 function work(iterations, depth) {
-  let check = 0;
-  for (let i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
+  var check = 0;
+  for (var i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
     check += itemCheck(bottomUpTree(depth));
   log.console(`${iterations}\t trees of depth ${depth}\t check: ${check}`);
 }
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ function itemCheck(node) {
 
 function bottomUpTree(depth) {
   return depth > 0
-    ? new TreeNode(bottomUpTree(depth - 1), bottomUpTree(depth - 1))
-    : new TreeNode(null, null);
+    ? TreeNode(bottomUpTree(depth - 1), bottomUpTree(depth - 1))
+    : TreeNode(null, null);
 }
 
 mainThread()
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/eratosthenes.ce

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 var blob = use('blob')
+var math = use('math/radians')
 
 function eratosthenes (n) {
-  var sieve = new blob(n, true)
-  var sqrtN = Math.trunc(Math.sqrt(n));
+  var sieve = blob(n, true)
+  var sqrtN = whole(math.sqrt(n));
 
   for (i = 2; i <= sqrtN; i++)
     if (sieve.read_logical(i))
@@ -16,9 +17,9 @@ var sieve = eratosthenes(10000000);
 stone(sieve)
 
 var c = 0
-for (var i = 0; i < sieve.length; i++)
+for (var i = 0; i < length(sieve); i++)
   if (sieve.read_logical(i)) c++
   
 log.console(c)
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/fannkuch.ce

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 function fannkuch(n) {
    var perm1 = [n]   
-   for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) perm1[i] = i      
+   for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) perm1[i] = i      
    var perm = [n]
    var count = [n]       
    var f = 0, flips = 0, nperm = 0, checksum = 0      
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function fannkuch(n) {
       while (k != 0) {
          i = 0  
          while (2*i < k) {          
-            let t = perm[i]; perm[i] = perm[k-i]; perm[k-i] = t  
+            var t = perm[i]; perm[i] = perm[k-i]; perm[k-i] = t  
             i += 1           
          }
          k = perm[0]
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ function fannkuch(n) {
             log.console( checksum )               
             return flips 
          }
-         let p0 = perm1[0]
+         var p0 = perm1[0]
          i = 0
          while (i < r) {
-            let j = i + 1
+            var j = i + 1
             perm1[i] = perm1[j]
             i = j            
          }
@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@ var n = arg[0] || 10
        
 log.console(`Pfannkuchen(${n}) = ${fannkuch(n)}`)
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/fib.ce

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+var time = use('time')
+
+function fib(n) {
+  if (n<2) return n
+  return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
+}
+
+var now = time.number()
+var arr = [1,2,3,4,5]
+arrfor(arr, function(i) {
+  log.console(fib(28))
+})
+
+log.console(`elapsed: ${time.number()-now}`)
+
+$stop()

benchmarks/js_perf.ce

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 var time = use('time')
+var math = use('math/radians')
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // JavaScript Performance Benchmark Suite
@@ -6,7 +7,7 @@ var time = use('time')
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 // Test configurations
-const iterations = {
+def iterations = {
   simple: 10000000,
   medium: 1000000,
   complex: 100000
@@ -108,12 +109,12 @@ function benchArrayOps() {
   var pushTime = measureTime(function() {
     var arr = [];
     for (var i = 0; i < iterations.medium; i++) {
-      arr.push(i);
+      push(arr, i);
     }
   });
   
   var arr = [];
-  for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) arr.push(i);
+  for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) push(arr, i);
   
   var accessTime = measureTime(function() {
     var sum = 0;
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ function benchArrayOps() {
   var iterateTime = measureTime(function() {
     var sum = 0;
     for (var j = 0; j < 1000; j++) {
-      for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
+      for (var i = 0; i < length(arr); i++) {
         sum += arr[i];
       }
     }
@@ -150,13 +151,12 @@ function benchObjectCreation() {
   });
   
   function Point(x, y) {
-    this.x = x;
-    this.y = y;
+    return {x,y}
   }
   
-  var constructorTime = measureTime(function() {
+  var defructorTime = measureTime(function() {
     for (var i = 0; i < iterations.medium; i++) {
-      var p = new Point(i, i * 2);
+      var p = Point(i, i * 2);
     }
   });
   
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ function benchObjectCreation() {
   
   var prototypeTime = measureTime(function() {
     for (var i = 0; i < iterations.medium; i++) {
-      var obj = Object.create(protoObj);
+      var obj = meme(protoObj);
       obj.x = i;
       obj.y = i * 2;
     }
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ function benchObjectCreation() {
   
   return {
     literalTime: literalTime,
-    constructorTime: constructorTime,
+    defructorTime: defructorTime,
     prototypeTime: prototypeTime
   };
 }
@@ -198,19 +198,19 @@ function benchStringOps() {
   
   var strings = [];
   for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
-    strings.push("string" + i);
+    push(strings, "string" + i);
   }
   
   var joinTime = measureTime(function() {
     for (var i = 0; i < iterations.complex; i++) {
-      var result = strings.join(",");
+      var result = text(strings, ",");
     }
   });
   
   var splitTime = measureTime(function() {
     var str = "a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p";
     for (var i = 0; i < iterations.medium; i++) {
-      var parts = str.split(",");
+      var parts = array(str, ",");
     }
   });
   
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ function benchArithmetic() {
   var floatMathTime = measureTime(function() {
     var result = 1.5;
     for (var i = 0; i < iterations.simple; i++) {
-      result = Math.sin(result) + Math.cos(i * 0.01);
-      result = Math.sqrt(Math.abs(result)) + 0.1;
+      result = math.sine(result) + math.cosine(i * 0.01);
+      result = math.sqrt(abs(result)) + 0.1;
     }
   });
   
@@ -269,13 +269,13 @@ function benchClosures() {
   var closureCreateTime = measureTime(function() {
     var funcs = [];
     for (var i = 0; i < iterations.medium; i++) {
-      funcs.push(makeAdder(i));
+      push(funcs, makeAdder(i));
     }
   });
   
   var adders = [];
   for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
-    adders.push(makeAdder(i));
+    push(adders, makeAdder(i));
   }
   
   var closureCallTime = measureTime(function() {
@@ -342,9 +342,9 @@ var objResults = benchObjectCreation();
 log.console("  Literal: " + objResults.literalTime.toFixed(3) + "s => " + 
            (iterations.medium / objResults.literalTime).toFixed(1) + " creates/sec [" +
            (objResults.literalTime / iterations.medium * 1e9).toFixed(1) + " ns/op]");
-log.console("  Constructor: " + objResults.constructorTime.toFixed(3) + "s => " + 
-           (iterations.medium / objResults.constructorTime).toFixed(1) + " creates/sec [" +
-           (objResults.constructorTime / iterations.medium * 1e9).toFixed(1) + " ns/op]");
+log.console("  Constructor: " + objResults.defructorTime.toFixed(3) + "s => " + 
+           (iterations.medium / objResults.defructorTime).toFixed(1) + " creates/sec [" +
+           (objResults.defructorTime / iterations.medium * 1e9).toFixed(1) + " ns/op]");
 log.console("  Prototype: " + objResults.prototypeTime.toFixed(3) + "s => " + 
            (iterations.medium / objResults.prototypeTime).toFixed(1) + " creates/sec [" +
            (objResults.prototypeTime / iterations.medium * 1e9).toFixed(1) + " ns/op]");
@@ -392,4 +392,4 @@ log.console("");
 log.console("---------------------------------------------------------");
 log.console("Benchmark complete.\n");
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/mandelbrot.ce

@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ var w = h
 
 log.console(`P4\n${w} ${h}`);
 
-for (let y = 0; y < h; ++y) {
+for (var y = 0; y < h; ++y) {
   // Create a blob for the row - we need w bits
-  var row = new blob(w);
+  var row = blob(w);
 
-  for (let x = 0; x < w; ++x) {
+  for (var x = 0; x < w; ++x) {
     zr = zi = tr = ti = 0;
     cr = 2 * x / w - 1.5;
     ci = 2 * y / h - 1;
-    for (let i = 0; i < iter && (tr + ti <= limit * limit); ++i) {
+    for (var i = 0; i < iter && (tr + ti <= limit * limit); ++i) {
       zi = 2 * zr * zi + ci;
       zr = tr - ti + cr;
       tr = zr * zr;
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ for (let y = 0; y < h; ++y) {
   log.console(text(row, 'b'));  
 }
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/montecarlo.ce

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
+var math = use('math/radians')
 var N = 1000000;
 var num = 0;
 for (var i = 0; i < N; i ++) {
-  var x = 2 * $_.random();
-  var y = $_.random();
-  if (y < Math.sin(x * x))
+  var x = 2 * $random();
+  var y = $random();
+  if (y < math.sine(x * x))
     num++;
 }
 log.console(2 * num / N);
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/nbody.ce

@@ -1,19 +1,13 @@
-var PI = Math.PI;
-var SOLAR_MASS = 4 * PI * PI;
+var math = use('math/radians')
+var SOLAR_MASS = 4 * pi * pi;
 var DAYS_PER_YEAR = 365.24;
 
 function Body(x, y, z, vx, vy, vz, mass) {
-    this.x = x;
-    this.y = y;
-    this.z = z;
-    this.vx = vx;
-    this.vy = vy;
-    this.vz = vz;
-    this.mass = mass;
+    return {x, y, z, vx, vy, vz, mass};
 }
 
 function Jupiter() {
-    return new Body(
+    return Body(
         4.84143144246472090e+00,
         -1.16032004402742839e+00,
         -1.03622044471123109e-01,
@@ -25,7 +19,7 @@ function Jupiter() {
 }
 
 function Saturn() {
-    return new Body(
+    return Body(
         8.34336671824457987e+00,
         4.12479856412430479e+00,
         -4.03523417114321381e-01,
@@ -37,7 +31,7 @@ function Saturn() {
 }
 
 function Uranus() {
-    return new Body(
+    return Body(
         1.28943695621391310e+01,
         -1.51111514016986312e+01,
         -2.23307578892655734e-01,
@@ -49,7 +43,7 @@ function Uranus() {
 }
 
 function Neptune() {
-    return new Body(
+    return Body(
         1.53796971148509165e+01,
         -2.59193146099879641e+01,
         1.79258772950371181e-01,
@@ -61,7 +55,7 @@ function Neptune() {
 }
 
 function Sun() {
-    return new Body(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, SOLAR_MASS);
+    return Body(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, SOLAR_MASS);
 }
 
 var bodies = Array(Sun(), Jupiter(), Saturn(), Uranus(), Neptune());
@@ -70,7 +64,7 @@ function offsetMomentum() {
     var px = 0;
     var py = 0;
     var pz = 0;
-    var size = bodies.length;
+    var size = length(bodies);
     for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) {
         var body = bodies[i];
         var mass = body.mass;
@@ -86,7 +80,7 @@ function offsetMomentum() {
 }
 
 function advance(dt) {
-    var size = bodies.length;
+    var size = length(bodies);
 
     for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) {
         var bodyi = bodies[i];
@@ -100,7 +94,7 @@ function advance(dt) {
             var dz = bodyi.z - bodyj.z;
 
             var d2 = dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz;
-            var mag = dt / (d2 * Math.sqrt(d2));
+            var mag = dt / (d2 * math.sqrt(d2));
 
             var massj = bodyj.mass;
             vxi -= dx * massj * mag;
@@ -127,7 +121,7 @@ function advance(dt) {
 
 function energy() {
     var e = 0;
-    var size = bodies.length;
+    var size = length(bodies);
 
     for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) {
         var bodyi = bodies[i];
@@ -141,14 +135,14 @@ function energy() {
             var dy = bodyi.y - bodyj.y;
             var dz = bodyi.z - bodyj.z;
 
-            var distance = Math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz);
+            var distance = math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy + dz * dz);
             e -= (bodyi.mass * bodyj.mass) / distance;
         }
     }
     return e;
 }
 
-var n = arg[0] || 1000000
+var n = arg[0] || 100000
 
 offsetMomentum();
 
@@ -158,4 +152,4 @@ for (var i = 0; i < n; i++)
     advance(0.01);
 log.console(energy().toFixed(9))
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/nota.ce

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 var nota = use('nota')
 var os = use('os')
-var io = use('io')
+var io = use('fd')
+var json = use('json')
 
 var ll = io.slurp('benchmarks/nota.json')
 
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ var newarr = []
 var accstr = ""
 for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
   accstr += i;
-  newarr.push(i.toString())
+  newarrpush(i.toString())
 }
 // Arrays to store timing results
 var jsonDecodeTimes = [];
@@ -18,34 +19,35 @@ var notaDecodeTimes = [];
 var notaSizes = [];
 
 // Run 100 tests
-for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
     // JSON Decode test
-    let start = os.now();
+    var start = os.now();
     var jll = json.decode(ll);
-    jsonDecodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+    jsonDecodeTimespush((os.now() - start) * 1000);
 
     // JSON Encode test
     start = os.now();
-    let jsonStr = JSON.stringify(jll);
-    jsonEncodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+    var jsonStr = JSON.stringify(jll);
+    jsonEncodeTimespush((os.now() - start) * 1000);
 
     // NOTA Encode test
     start = os.now();
     var nll = nota.encode(jll);
-    notaEncodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+    notaEncodeTimespush((os.now() - start) * 1000);
 
     // NOTA Decode test
     start = os.now();
     var oll = nota.decode(nll);
-    notaDecodeTimes.push((os.now() - start) * 1000);
+    notaDecodeTimespush((os.now() - start) * 1000);
 }
 
 // Calculate statistics
 function getStats(arr) {
-    def avg = arr.reduce((a, b) => a + b) / arr.length;
-    def min = Math.min(...arr);
-    def max = Math.max(...arr);
-    return { avg, min, max };
+    return {
+      avg: reduce(arr, (a,b) => a+b, 0) / length(arr),
+      min: reduce(arr, min),
+      max: reduce(arr, max)
+    };
 }
 
 // Pretty print results

benchmarks/spectral-norm.ce

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
+def math = use('math/radians');
+
 function A(i,j) {
   return 1/((i+j)*(i+j+1)/2+i+1);
 }
 
 function Au(u,v) {
-  for (var i=0; i<u.length; ++i) {
+  for (var i=0; i<length(u); ++i) {
     var t = 0;
-    for (var j=0; j<u.length; ++j)
+    for (var j=0; j<length(u); ++j)
       t += A(i,j) * u[j];
       
     v[i] = t;
@@ -13,9 +15,9 @@ function Au(u,v) {
 }
 
 function Atu(u,v) {
-  for (var i=0; i<u.length; ++i) {
+  for (var i=0; i<length(u); ++i) {
     var t = 0;
-    for (var j=0; j<u.length; ++j)
+    for (var j=0; j<length(u); ++j)
       t += A(j,i) * u[j];
       
     v[i] = t;
@@ -42,9 +44,9 @@ function spectralnorm(n) {
     vv  += v[i]*v[i];
   }
   
-  return Math.sqrt(vBv/vv);
+  return math.sqrt(vBv/vv);
 }
 
 log.console(spectralnorm(arg[0]).toFixed(9));
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

benchmarks/wota.ce

@@ -14,18 +14,18 @@
 // Helper to run a function repeatedly and measure total time in seconds.
 // Returns elapsed time in seconds.
 function measureTime(fn, iterations) {
-    let t1 = os.now();
-    for (let i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
+    var t1 = os.now();
+    for (var i = 0; i < iterations; i++) {
         fn();
     }
-    let t2 = os.now();
+    var t2 = os.now();
     return t2 - t1;
 }
 
 // We'll define a function that does `encode -> decode` for a given value:
 function roundTripWota(value) {
-    let encoded = wota.encode(value);
-    let decoded = wota.decode(encoded);
+    var encoded = wota.encode(value);
+    var decoded = wota.decode(encoded);
     // Not doing a deep compare here, just measuring performance.
     // (We trust the test suite to verify correctness.)
 }
@@ -63,15 +63,9 @@ def benchmarks = [
   {
     name: "Large Array (1k numbers)",
     // A thousand random numbers
-    data: [ Array.from({length:1000}, (_, i) => i * 0.5) ],
+    data: [ array(1000, i => i *0.5) ],
     iterations: 1000
   },
-  {
-    name: "Large Binary Blob (256KB)",
-    // A 256KB ArrayBuffer
-    data: [ new Uint8Array(256 * 1024).buffer ],
-    iterations: 200
-  }
 ];
 
 // Print a header
@@ -79,28 +73,23 @@ log.console("Wota Encode/Decode Benchmark");
 log.console("===================\n");
 
 // We'll run each benchmark scenario in turn.
-for (let bench of benchmarks) {
-    // We'll measure how long it takes to do 'iterations' *for each test value*
-    // in bench.data. The total loop count is `bench.iterations * bench.data.length`.
-    // Then we compute an overall encode+decode throughput (ops/s).
-    let totalIterations = bench.iterations * bench.data.length;
+arrfor(benchmarks, function(bench) {
+    var totalIterations = bench.iterations * length(bench.data);
     
     // We'll define a function that does a roundTrip for *each* data item in bench.data
     // to measure in one loop iteration. Then we multiply by bench.iterations.
     function runAllData() {
-        for (let val of bench.data) {
-            roundTripWota(val);
-        }
+      arrfor(bench.data, roundTripWota)
     }
 
-    let elapsedSec = measureTime(runAllData, bench.iterations);
-    let opsPerSec  = (totalIterations / elapsedSec).toFixed(1);
+    var elapsedSec = measureTime(runAllData, bench.iterations);
+    var opsPerSec  = (totalIterations / elapsedSec).toFixed(1);
 
     log.console(`${bench.name}:`);
-    log.console(`  Iterations: ${bench.iterations} × ${bench.data.length} data items = ${totalIterations}`);
+    log.console(`  Iterations: ${bench.iterations} × ${length(bench.data)} data items = ${totalIterations}`);
     log.console(`  Elapsed:    ${elapsedSec.toFixed(3)} s`);
     log.console(`  Throughput: ${opsPerSec} encode+decode ops/sec\n`);
-}
+})
 
 // All done
 log.console("Benchmark completed.\n");

benchmarks/wota_nota_json.ce

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
 //
 
 // Parse command line arguments
-if (arg.length != 2) {
+if (length(arg) != 2) {
   log.console('Usage: cell benchmark_wota_nota_json.ce <LibraryName> <ScenarioName>');
-  $_.stop()
+  $stop()
 }
 
 var lib_name = arg[0];
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def libraries = [
     decode: wota.decode,
     // wota produces an ArrayBuffer. We'll count `buffer.byteLength` as size.
     getSize(encoded) {
-      return encoded.length;
+      return length(encoded);
     }
   },
   {
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def libraries = [
     decode: nota.decode,
     // nota also produces an ArrayBuffer:
     getSize(encoded) {
-      return encoded.length;
+      return length(encoded);
     }
   },
   {
@@ -50,16 +50,9 @@ def libraries = [
     decode: json.decode,
     // json produces a JS string. We'll measure its UTF-16 code unit length
     // as a rough "size". Alternatively, you could convert to UTF-8 for
-    // a more accurate byte size. Here we just use `string.length`.
     getSize(encodedStr) {
-      return encodedStr.length;
+      return length(encodedStr);
     }
-  },
-  {
-    name: "jswota",
-    encode: jswota.encode,
-    decode: jswota.decode,
-    getSize(encoded) { return encoded.length }
   }
 ];
 
@@ -104,7 +97,7 @@ def benchmarks = [
   },
   {
     name: "large_array",
-    data: [ Array.from({length:1000}, (_, i) => i) ],
+    data: [ array(1000, i => i) ],
     iterations: 1000
   },
 ];
@@ -114,9 +107,9 @@ def benchmarks = [
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 function measureTime(fn) {
-  let start = os.now();
+  var start = os.now();
   fn();
-  let end   = os.now();
+  var end   = os.now();
   return (end - start);  // in seconds
 }
 
@@ -134,19 +127,19 @@ function runBenchmarkForLibrary(lib, bench) {
 
   // Pre-store the encoded results for all items so we can measure decode time
   // in a separate pass. Also measure total size once.
-  let encodedList = [];
-  let totalSize = 0;
+  var encodedList = [];
+  var totalSize = 0;
 
   // 1) Measure ENCODING
-  let encodeTime = measureTime(() => {
-    for (let i = 0; i < bench.iterations; i++) {
+  var encodeTime = measureTime(() => {
+    for (var i = 0; i < bench.iterations; i++) {
       // For each data item, encode it
-      for (let j = 0; j < bench.data.length; j++) {
-        let e = lib.encode(bench.data[j]);
+      for (var j = 0; j < length(bench.data); j++) {
+        var e = lib.encode(bench.data[j]);
         // store only in the very first iteration, so we can decode them later
         // but do not store them every iteration or we blow up memory.
         if (i == 0) {
-          encodedList.push(e);
+          push(encodedList, e);
           totalSize += lib.getSize(e);
         }
       }
@@ -154,13 +147,9 @@ function runBenchmarkForLibrary(lib, bench) {
   });
 
   // 2) Measure DECODING
-  let decodeTime = measureTime(() => {
-    for (let i = 0; i < bench.iterations; i++) {
-      // decode everything we stored during the first iteration
-      for (let e of encodedList) {
-        let decoded = lib.decode(e);
-        // not verifying correctness here, just measuring speed
-      }
+  var decodeTime = measureTime(() => {
+    for (var i = 0; i < bench.iterations; i++) {
+      arrfor(encodedList, lib.decode)
     }
   });
 
@@ -172,26 +161,26 @@ function runBenchmarkForLibrary(lib, bench) {
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 // Find the requested library and scenario
-var lib = libraries.find(l => l.name == lib_name);
-var bench = benchmarks.find(b => b.name == scenario_name);
+var lib = libraries[find(libraries, l => l.name == lib_name)];
+var bench = benchmarks[find(benchmarks, b => b.name == scenario_name)];
 
 if (!lib) {
   log.console('Unknown library:', lib_name);
-  log.console('Available libraries:', libraries.map(l => l.name).join(', '));
-  $_.stop()
+  log.console('Available libraries:', text(array(libraries, l => l.name), ', '));
+  $stop()
 }
 
 if (!bench) {
   log.console('Unknown scenario:', scenario_name);
-  log.console('Available scenarios:', benchmarks.map(b => b.name).join(', '));
-  $_.stop()
+  log.console('Available scenarios:', text(array(benchmarks, b => b.name), ', '));
+  $stop()
 }
 
 // Run the benchmark for this library/scenario combination
 var { encodeTime, decodeTime, totalSize } = runBenchmarkForLibrary(lib, bench);
 
 // Output json for easy parsing by hyperfine or other tools
-var totalOps = bench.iterations * bench.data.length;
+var totalOps = bench.iterations * length(bench.data);
 var result = {
   lib: lib_name,
   scenario: scenario_name,
@@ -205,6 +194,6 @@ var result = {
   decodeNsPerOp: (decodeTime / totalOps) * 1e9
 };
 
-log.console(json.encode(result));
+log.console(result);
 
-$_.stop()
+$stop()

build.ce

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+// cell build [<locator>] - Build dynamic libraries locally for the current machine
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cell build                Build dynamic libraries for all packages in shop
+//   cell build .              Build dynamic library for current directory package
+//   cell build <locator>      Build dynamic library for specific package
+//   cell build -t <target>    Cross-compile dynamic libraries for target platform
+//   cell build -b <type>      Build type: release (default), debug, or minsize
+
+var build = use('build')
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var pkg_tools = use('package')
+var fd = use('fd')
+
+var target = null
+var target_package = null
+var buildtype = 'release'
+var force_rebuild = false
+var dry_run = false
+var i = 0
+var targets = null
+var t = 0
+var resolved = null
+var lib = null
+var results = null
+var success = 0
+var failed = 0
+
+for (i = 0; i < length(args); i++) {
+  if (args[i] == '-t' || args[i] == '--target') {
+    if (i + 1 < length(args)) {
+      target = args[++i]
+    } else {
+      log.error('-t requires a target')
+      $stop()
+    }
+  } else if (args[i] == '-p' || args[i] == '--package') {
+    // Legacy support for -p flag
+    if (i + 1 < length(args)) {
+      target_package = args[++i]
+    } else {
+      log.error('-p requires a package name')
+      $stop()
+    }
+  } else if (args[i] == '-b' || args[i] == '--buildtype') {
+    if (i + 1 < length(args)) {
+      buildtype = args[++i]
+      if (buildtype != 'release' && buildtype != 'debug' && buildtype != 'minsize') {
+        log.error('Invalid buildtype: ' + buildtype + '. Must be release, debug, or minsize')
+        $stop()
+      }
+    } else {
+      log.error('-b requires a buildtype (release, debug, minsize)')
+      $stop()
+    }
+  } else if (args[i] == '--force') {
+    force_rebuild = true
+  } else if (args[i] == '--dry-run') {
+    dry_run = true
+  } else if (args[i] == '--list-targets') {
+    log.console('Available targets:')
+    targets = build.list_targets()
+    for (t = 0; t < length(targets); t++) {
+      log.console('  ' + targets[t])
+    }
+    $stop()
+  } else if (!starts_with(args[i], '-') && !target_package) {
+    // Positional argument - treat as package locator
+    target_package = args[i]
+  }
+}
+
+// Resolve local paths to absolute paths
+if (target_package) {
+  if (target_package == '.' || starts_with(target_package, './') || starts_with(target_package, '../') || fd.is_dir(target_package)) {
+    resolved = fd.realpath(target_package)
+    if (resolved) {
+      target_package = resolved
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Detect target if not specified
+if (!target) {
+  target = build.detect_host_target()
+  if (target) log.console('Target: ' + target)
+}
+
+if (target && !build.has_target(target)) {
+  log.error('Invalid target: ' + target)
+  log.console('Available targets: ' + text(build.list_targets(), ', '))
+  $stop()
+}
+
+var packages = shop.list_packages()
+log.console('Preparing packages...')
+arrfor(packages, function(package) {
+  if (package == 'core') return
+  shop.extract(package)
+})
+
+var _build = null
+if (target_package) {
+  // Build single package
+  log.console('Building ' + target_package + '...')
+  _build = function() {
+    lib = build.build_dynamic(target_package, target, buildtype)
+    if (lib) {
+      log.console('Built: ' + lib)
+    }
+  } disruption {
+    log.error('Build failed')
+    $stop()
+  }
+  _build()
+} else {
+  // Build all packages
+  log.console('Building all packages...')
+  results = build.build_all_dynamic(target, buildtype)
+
+  success = 0
+  failed = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < length(results); i++) {
+    if (results[i].library) {
+      success++
+    } else if (results[i].error) {
+      failed++
+    }
+  }
+
+  log.console(`Build complete: ${success} libraries built${failed > 0 ? `, ${failed} failed` : ''}`)
+}
+
+$stop()

build.cm

@@ -0,0 +1,659 @@
+// build.cm - Simplified build utilities for Cell
+//
+// Key functions:
+//   Build.compile_file(pkg, file, target)     - Compile a C file, returns object path
+//   Build.build_package(pkg, target)          - Build all C files for a package
+//   Build.build_dynamic(pkg, target)          - Build dynamic library for a package
+//   Build.build_static(packages, target, output) - Build static binary
+
+var fd = use('fd')
+var crypto = use('crypto')
+var blob = use('blob')
+var os = use('os')
+var toolchains = use('toolchains')
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var pkg_tools = use('package')
+
+var Build = {}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Sigil replacement
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Get the local directory for prebuilt libraries
+function get_local_dir() {
+  return shop.get_local_dir()
+}
+
+// Replace sigils in a string
+// Currently supports: $LOCAL -> .cell/local full path
+function replace_sigils(str) {
+  return replace(str, '$LOCAL', get_local_dir())
+}
+
+// Replace sigils in an array of flags
+function replace_sigils_array(flags) {
+  var result = []
+  arrfor(flags, function(flag) {
+    push(result, replace_sigils(flag))
+  })
+  return result
+}
+
+Build.get_local_dir = get_local_dir
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Toolchain helpers
+// ============================================================================
+
+Build.list_targets = function() {
+  return array(toolchains)
+}
+
+Build.has_target = function(target) {
+  return toolchains[target] != null
+}
+
+Build.detect_host_target = function() {
+  var platform = os.platform()
+  var arch = os.arch ? os.arch() : 'arm64'
+  
+  if (platform == 'macOS' || platform == 'darwin') {
+    return arch == 'x86_64' ? 'macos_x86_64' : 'macos_arm64'
+  } else if (platform == 'Linux' || platform == 'linux') {
+    return arch == 'x86_64' ? 'linux' : 'linux_arm64'
+  } else if (platform == 'Windows' || platform == 'windows') {
+    return 'windows'
+  }
+  return null
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Content-addressed build cache
+// ============================================================================
+
+function content_hash(str) {
+  var bb = stone(blob(str))
+  return text(crypto.blake2(bb, 32), 'h')
+}
+
+function get_build_dir() {
+  return shop.get_build_dir()
+}
+
+function ensure_dir(path) {
+  if (fd.stat(path).isDirectory) return
+  var parts = array(path, '/')
+  var current = starts_with(path, '/') ? '/' : ''
+  var i = 0
+  for (i = 0; i < length(parts); i++) {
+    if (parts[i] == '') continue
+    current += parts[i] + '/'
+    if (!fd.stat(current).isDirectory) fd.mkdir(current)
+  }
+}
+
+Build.ensure_dir = ensure_dir
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Compilation
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Compile a single C file for a package
+// Returns the object file path (content-addressed in .cell/build)
+Build.compile_file = function(pkg, file, target, buildtype) {
+  var _buildtype = buildtype || 'release'
+  var pkg_dir = shop.get_package_dir(pkg)
+  var src_path = pkg_dir + '/' + file
+
+  if (!fd.is_file(src_path)) {
+    print('Source file not found: ' + src_path); disrupt
+  }
+  
+  // Get flags (with sigil replacement)
+  var cflags = replace_sigils_array(pkg_tools.get_flags(pkg, 'CFLAGS', target))
+  var target_cflags = toolchains[target].c_args || []
+  var cc = toolchains[target].c
+  
+  // Symbol name for this file
+  var sym_name = shop.c_symbol_for_file(pkg, file)
+  
+  // Build command
+  var cmd_parts = [cc, '-c', '-fPIC']
+  
+  // Add buildtype-specific flags
+  if (_buildtype == 'release') {
+    cmd_parts = array(cmd_parts, ['-O3', '-DNDEBUG'])
+  } else if (_buildtype == 'debug') {
+    cmd_parts = array(cmd_parts, ['-O2', '-g'])
+  } else if (_buildtype == 'minsize') {
+    cmd_parts = array(cmd_parts, ['-Os', '-DNDEBUG'])
+  }
+  
+  push(cmd_parts, '-DCELL_USE_NAME=' + sym_name)
+  push(cmd_parts, '-I"' + pkg_dir + '"')
+  
+  // Add package CFLAGS (resolve relative -I paths)
+  arrfor(cflags, function(flag) {
+    var f = flag
+    if (starts_with(f, '-I') && !starts_with(f, '-I/')) {
+      f = '-I"' + pkg_dir + '/' + text(f, 2) + '"'
+    }
+    push(cmd_parts, f)
+  })
+  
+  // Add target CFLAGS
+  arrfor(target_cflags, function(flag) {
+    push(cmd_parts, flag)
+  })
+  
+  push(cmd_parts, '"' + src_path + '"')
+  
+  var cmd_str = text(cmd_parts, ' ')
+  
+  // Content hash: command + file content
+  var file_content = fd.slurp(src_path)
+  var hash_input = cmd_str + '\n' + text(file_content)
+  var hash = content_hash(hash_input)
+  
+  var build_dir = get_build_dir()
+  ensure_dir(build_dir)
+  var obj_path = build_dir + '/' + hash
+  
+  // Check if already compiled
+  if (fd.is_file(obj_path)) {
+    return obj_path
+  }
+  
+  // Compile
+  var full_cmd = cmd_str + ' -o "' + obj_path + '"'
+  log.console('Compiling ' + file)
+  var ret = os.system(full_cmd)
+  if (ret != 0) {
+    print('Compilation failed: ' + file); disrupt
+  }
+  
+  return obj_path
+}
+
+// Build all C files for a package
+// Returns array of object file paths
+Build.build_package = function(pkg, target, exclude_main, buildtype) {
+  var _target = target || Build.detect_host_target()
+  var _buildtype = buildtype || 'release'
+  var c_files = pkg_tools.get_c_files(pkg, _target, exclude_main)
+  var objects = []
+
+  arrfor(c_files, function(file) {
+    var obj = Build.compile_file(pkg, file, _target, _buildtype)
+    push(objects, obj)
+  })
+  
+  return objects
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Dynamic library building
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Compute link key from all inputs that affect the dylib output
+function compute_link_key(objects, ldflags, target_ldflags, opts) {
+  // Sort objects for deterministic hash
+  var sorted_objects = sort(objects)
+
+  // Build a string representing all link inputs
+  var parts = []
+  push(parts, 'target:' + opts.target)
+  push(parts, 'cc:' + opts.cc)
+  arrfor(sorted_objects, function(obj) {
+    // Object paths are content-addressed, so the path itself is the hash
+    push(parts, 'obj:' + obj)
+  })
+  arrfor(ldflags, function(flag) {
+    push(parts, 'ldflag:' + flag)
+  })
+  arrfor(target_ldflags, function(flag) {
+    push(parts, 'target_ldflag:' + flag)
+  })
+
+  return content_hash(text(parts, '\n'))
+}
+
+// Build a per-module dynamic library for a single C file
+// Returns the content-addressed dylib path in .cell/build/<hash>.<target>.dylib
+Build.build_module_dylib = function(pkg, file, target, buildtype) {
+  var _target = target || Build.detect_host_target()
+  var _buildtype = buildtype || 'release'
+  var obj = Build.compile_file(pkg, file, _target, _buildtype)
+
+  var tc = toolchains[_target]
+  var dylib_ext = tc.system == 'windows' ? '.dll' : (tc.system == 'darwin' ? '.dylib' : '.so')
+  var cc = tc.cpp || tc.c
+  var local_dir = get_local_dir()
+  var pkg_dir = shop.get_package_dir(pkg)
+
+  // Get link flags
+  var ldflags = replace_sigils_array(pkg_tools.get_flags(pkg, 'LDFLAGS', _target))
+  var target_ldflags = tc.c_link_args || []
+  var resolved_ldflags = []
+  arrfor(ldflags, function(flag) {
+    var f = flag
+    if (starts_with(f, '-L') && !starts_with(f, '-L/')) {
+      f = '-L"' + pkg_dir + '/' + text(f, 2) + '"'
+    }
+    push(resolved_ldflags, f)
+  })
+
+  // Content-addressed output: hash of (object + link flags + target)
+  var link_key = compute_link_key([obj], resolved_ldflags, target_ldflags, {target: _target, cc: cc})
+  var build_dir = get_build_dir()
+  ensure_dir(build_dir)
+  var dylib_path = build_dir + '/' + link_key + '.' + _target + dylib_ext
+
+  if (fd.is_file(dylib_path))
+    return dylib_path
+
+  var cmd_parts = [cc, '-shared', '-fPIC']
+
+  if (tc.system == 'darwin') {
+    cmd_parts = array(cmd_parts, [
+      '-undefined', 'dynamic_lookup',
+      '-Wl,-dead_strip',
+      '-Wl,-rpath,@loader_path/../local',
+      '-Wl,-rpath,' + local_dir
+    ])
+  } else if (tc.system == 'linux') {
+    cmd_parts = array(cmd_parts, [
+      '-Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined',
+      '-Wl,--gc-sections',
+      '-Wl,-rpath,$ORIGIN/../local',
+      '-Wl,-rpath,' + local_dir
+    ])
+  } else if (tc.system == 'windows') {
+    push(cmd_parts, '-Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined')
+  }
+
+  push(cmd_parts, '-L"' + local_dir + '"')
+  push(cmd_parts, '"' + obj + '"')
+  cmd_parts = array(cmd_parts, resolved_ldflags)
+  cmd_parts = array(cmd_parts, target_ldflags)
+  push(cmd_parts, '-o')
+  push(cmd_parts, '"' + dylib_path + '"')
+
+  var cmd_str = text(cmd_parts, ' ')
+  log.console('Linking module ' + file + ' -> ' + fd.basename(dylib_path))
+  var ret = os.system(cmd_str)
+  if (ret != 0) {
+    print('Linking failed: ' + file); disrupt
+  }
+
+  // Install to deterministic lib/<pkg>/<stem>.dylib
+  var file_stem = file
+  var install_dir = shop.get_lib_dir() + '/' + shop.lib_name_for_package(pkg)
+  var stem_dir = fd.dirname(file_stem)
+  if (stem_dir && stem_dir != '.') {
+    install_dir = install_dir + '/' + stem_dir
+  }
+  ensure_dir(install_dir)
+  var install_path = shop.get_lib_dir() + '/' + shop.lib_name_for_package(pkg) + '/' + file_stem + dylib_ext
+  fd.slurpwrite(install_path, fd.slurp(dylib_path))
+
+  return dylib_path
+}
+
+// Build a dynamic library for a package (one dylib per C file)
+// Returns array of {file, symbol, dylib} for each module
+// Also writes a manifest mapping symbols to dylib paths
+Build.build_dynamic = function(pkg, target, buildtype) {
+  var _target = target || Build.detect_host_target()
+  var _buildtype = buildtype || 'release'
+  var c_files = pkg_tools.get_c_files(pkg, _target, true)
+  var results = []
+
+  arrfor(c_files, function(file) {
+    var sym_name = shop.c_symbol_for_file(pkg, file)
+    var dylib = Build.build_module_dylib(pkg, file, _target, _buildtype)
+    push(results, {file: file, symbol: sym_name, dylib: dylib})
+  })
+
+  return results
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Static binary building
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Build a static binary from multiple packages
+// packages: array of package names
+// output: output binary path
+Build.build_static = function(packages, target, output, buildtype) {
+  var _target = target || Build.detect_host_target()
+  var _buildtype = buildtype || 'release'
+  var all_objects = []
+  var all_ldflags = []
+  var seen_flags = {}
+  
+  // Compile all packages
+  arrfor(packages, function(pkg) {
+    var is_core = (pkg == 'core')
+    
+    // For core, include main.c; for others, exclude it
+    var objects = Build.build_package(pkg, _target, !is_core, _buildtype)
+
+    arrfor(objects, function(obj) {
+      push(all_objects, obj)
+    })
+
+    // Collect LDFLAGS (with sigil replacement)
+    var ldflags = replace_sigils_array(pkg_tools.get_flags(pkg, 'LDFLAGS', _target))
+    var pkg_dir = shop.get_package_dir(pkg)
+    
+    // Deduplicate based on the entire LDFLAGS string for this package
+    var ldflags_key = pkg + ':' + text(ldflags, ' ')
+    if (!seen_flags[ldflags_key]) {
+      seen_flags[ldflags_key] = true
+      arrfor(ldflags, function(flag) {
+        var f = flag
+        if (starts_with(f, '-L') && !starts_with(f, '-L/')) {
+          f = '-L"' + pkg_dir + '/' + text(f, 2) + '"'
+        }
+        push(all_ldflags, f)
+      })
+    }
+  })
+  
+  if (length(all_objects) == 0) {
+    print('No object files to link'); disrupt
+  }
+
+  // Link
+  var cc = toolchains[_target].c
+  var target_ldflags = toolchains[_target].c_link_args || []
+  var exe_ext = toolchains[_target].system == 'windows' ? '.exe' : ''
+  
+  var out_path = output
+  if (!ends_with(out_path, exe_ext) && exe_ext) {
+    out_path = out_path + exe_ext
+  }
+
+  var cmd_parts = [cc]
+  
+  arrfor(all_objects, function(obj) {
+    push(cmd_parts, '"' + obj + '"')
+  })
+  
+  arrfor(all_ldflags, function(flag) {
+    push(cmd_parts, flag)
+  })
+  
+  arrfor(target_ldflags, function(flag) {
+    push(cmd_parts, flag)
+  })
+  
+  push(cmd_parts, '-o', '"' + out_path + '"')
+
+  var cmd_str = text(cmd_parts, ' ')
+
+  log.console('Linking ' + out_path)
+  var ret = os.system(cmd_str)
+  if (ret != 0) {
+    print('Linking failed: ' + cmd_str); disrupt
+  }
+
+  log.console('Built ' + out_path)
+  return out_path
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Native .cm compilation (source → mcode → QBE IL → .o → .dylib)
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Post-process QBE IL: insert dead labels after ret/jmp (QBE requirement)
+function qbe_insert_dead_labels(il_text) {
+  var lines = array(il_text, "\n")
+  var result = []
+  var dead_id = 0
+  var need_label = false
+  var i = 0
+  var line = null
+  var trimmed = null
+  while (i < length(lines)) {
+    line = lines[i]
+    trimmed = trim(line)
+    if (need_label && !starts_with(trimmed, '@') && !starts_with(trimmed, '}') && length(trimmed) > 0) {
+      push(result, "@_dead_" + text(dead_id))
+      dead_id = dead_id + 1
+      need_label = false
+    }
+    if (starts_with(trimmed, '@') || starts_with(trimmed, '}') || length(trimmed) == 0) {
+      need_label = false
+    }
+    if (starts_with(trimmed, 'ret ') || starts_with(trimmed, 'jmp ')) {
+      need_label = true
+    }
+    push(result, line)
+    i = i + 1
+  }
+  return text(result, "\n")
+}
+
+// Compile a .cm source file to a native .dylib via QBE
+// Returns the content-addressed dylib path
+Build.compile_native = function(src_path, target, buildtype, pkg) {
+  var _target = target || Build.detect_host_target()
+  var _buildtype = buildtype || 'release'
+  var qbe_rt_path = null
+  var native_stem = null
+  var native_install_dir = null
+  var native_install_path = null
+
+  if (!fd.is_file(src_path)) {
+    print('Source file not found: ' + src_path); disrupt
+  }
+
+  var tc = toolchains[_target]
+  var dylib_ext = tc.system == 'windows' ? '.dll' : (tc.system == 'darwin' ? '.dylib' : '.so')
+  var cc = tc.c
+
+  // Step 1: Read source and compile through pipeline
+  var content = fd.slurp(src_path)
+  var src = text(content)
+  var tokenize = use('tokenize')
+  var parse = use('parse')
+  var fold = use('fold')
+  var mcode_mod = use('mcode')
+  var streamline_mod = use('streamline')
+  var qbe_macros = use('qbe')
+  var qbe_emit = use('qbe_emit')
+
+  var tok_result = tokenize(src, src_path)
+  var ast = parse(tok_result.tokens, src, src_path, tokenize)
+  var folded = fold(ast)
+  var compiled = mcode_mod(folded)
+  var optimized = streamline_mod(compiled)
+
+  // Step 2: Generate QBE IL
+  var sym_name = null
+  if (pkg) {
+    sym_name = shop.c_symbol_for_file(pkg, fd.basename(src_path))
+  }
+  var il = qbe_emit(optimized, qbe_macros, sym_name)
+
+  // Step 3: Post-process (insert dead labels)
+  il = qbe_insert_dead_labels(il)
+
+  // Content hash for cache key
+  var hash = content_hash(src + '\n' + _target + '\nnative')
+  var build_dir = get_build_dir()
+  ensure_dir(build_dir)
+
+  var dylib_path = build_dir + '/' + hash + '.' + _target + dylib_ext
+  if (fd.is_file(dylib_path))
+    return dylib_path
+
+  // Step 4: Write QBE IL to temp file
+  var tmp = '/tmp/cell_native_' + hash
+  var ssa_path = tmp + '.ssa'
+  var s_path = tmp + '.s'
+  var o_path = tmp + '.o'
+  var rt_o_path = '/tmp/cell_qbe_rt.o'
+
+  fd.slurpwrite(ssa_path, stone(blob(il)))
+
+  // Step 5: QBE compile to assembly
+  var rc = os.system('qbe -o ' + s_path + ' ' + ssa_path)
+  if (rc != 0) {
+    print('QBE compilation failed for: ' + src_path); disrupt
+  }
+
+  // Step 6: Assemble
+  rc = os.system(cc + ' -c ' + s_path + ' -o ' + o_path)
+  if (rc != 0) {
+    print('Assembly failed for: ' + src_path); disrupt
+  }
+
+  // Step 7: Compile QBE runtime stubs if needed
+  if (!fd.is_file(rt_o_path)) {
+    qbe_rt_path = shop.get_package_dir('core') + '/qbe_rt.c'
+    rc = os.system(cc + ' -c ' + qbe_rt_path + ' -o ' + rt_o_path + ' -fPIC')
+    if (rc != 0) {
+      print('QBE runtime stubs compilation failed'); disrupt
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Step 8: Link dylib
+  var link_cmd = cc + ' -shared -fPIC'
+  if (tc.system == 'darwin') {
+    link_cmd = link_cmd + ' -undefined dynamic_lookup'
+  } else if (tc.system == 'linux') {
+    link_cmd = link_cmd + ' -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined'
+  }
+  link_cmd = link_cmd + ' ' + o_path + ' ' + rt_o_path + ' -o ' + dylib_path
+
+  rc = os.system(link_cmd)
+  if (rc != 0) {
+    print('Linking native dylib failed for: ' + src_path); disrupt
+  }
+
+  log.console('Built native: ' + fd.basename(dylib_path))
+
+  // Install to deterministic lib/<pkg>/<stem>.dylib
+  if (pkg) {
+    native_stem = fd.basename(src_path)
+    native_install_dir = shop.get_lib_dir() + '/' + shop.lib_name_for_package(pkg)
+    ensure_dir(native_install_dir)
+    native_install_path = native_install_dir + '/' + native_stem + dylib_ext
+    fd.slurpwrite(native_install_path, fd.slurp(dylib_path))
+  }
+
+  return dylib_path
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Module table generation (for static builds)
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Compile a .cm module to mach bytecode blob
+// Returns the raw mach bytes as a blob
+Build.compile_cm_to_mach = function(src_path) {
+  if (!fd.is_file(src_path)) {
+    print('Source file not found: ' + src_path); disrupt
+  }
+  var src = text(fd.slurp(src_path))
+  var tokenize = use('tokenize')
+  var parse = use('parse')
+  var fold = use('fold')
+  var mcode_mod = use('mcode')
+  var streamline_mod = use('streamline')
+  var json = use('json')
+
+  var tok_result = tokenize(src, src_path)
+  var ast = parse(tok_result.tokens, src, src_path, tokenize)
+  var folded = fold(ast)
+  var compiled = mcode_mod(folded)
+  var optimized = streamline_mod(compiled)
+  return mach_compile_mcode_bin(src_path, json.encode(optimized))
+}
+
+// Generate a module_table.c file that embeds mach bytecode for .cm modules
+// modules: array of {name, src_path} — name is the module name, src_path is the .cm file
+// output: path to write the generated .c file
+Build.generate_module_table = function(modules, output) {
+  var lines = []
+  var json = use('json')
+  push(lines, '/* Generated module table — do not edit */')
+  push(lines, '#include <stddef.h>')
+  push(lines, '#include <string.h>')
+  push(lines, '')
+  push(lines, 'struct cell_embedded_entry {')
+  push(lines, '  const char *name;')
+  push(lines, '  const unsigned char *data;')
+  push(lines, '  size_t size;')
+  push(lines, '};')
+  push(lines, '')
+
+  var entries = []
+  arrfor(modules, function(mod) {
+    var safe = replace(replace(replace(mod.name, '/', '_'), '.', '_'), '-', '_')
+    var mach = Build.compile_cm_to_mach(mod.src_path)
+    var bytes = array(mach)
+    var hex = []
+    arrfor(bytes, function(b) {
+      push(hex, '0x' + text(b, 'h2'))
+    })
+    push(lines, 'static const unsigned char mod_' + safe + '_data[] = {')
+    push(lines, '  ' + text(hex, ', '))
+    push(lines, '};')
+    push(lines, '')
+    push(entries, safe)
+    log.console('Embedded: ' + mod.name + ' (' + text(length(bytes)) + ' bytes)')
+  })
+
+  // Lookup function
+  push(lines, 'const struct cell_embedded_entry *cell_embedded_module_lookup(const char *name) {')
+  arrfor(modules, function(mod, i) {
+    var safe = entries[i]
+    push(lines, '  if (strcmp(name, "' + mod.name + '") == 0) {')
+    push(lines, '    static const struct cell_embedded_entry e = {"' + mod.name + '", mod_' + safe + '_data, sizeof(mod_' + safe + '_data)};')
+    push(lines, '    return &e;')
+    push(lines, '  }')
+  })
+  push(lines, '  return (void *)0;')
+  push(lines, '}')
+
+  var c_text = text(lines, '\n')
+  fd.slurpwrite(output, stone(blob(c_text)))
+  log.console('Generated ' + output)
+  return output
+}
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Convenience functions
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Build dynamic libraries for all installed packages
+Build.build_all_dynamic = function(target, buildtype) {
+  var _target = target || Build.detect_host_target()
+  var _buildtype = buildtype || 'release'
+
+  var packages = shop.list_packages()
+  var results = []
+  var core_mods = null
+
+  // Build core first
+  if (find(packages, function(p) { return p == 'core' }) != null) {
+    core_mods = Build.build_dynamic('core', _target, _buildtype)
+    push(results, {package: 'core', modules: core_mods})
+  }
+
+  // Build other packages
+  arrfor(packages, function(pkg) {
+    if (pkg == 'core') return
+    var pkg_mods = Build.build_dynamic(pkg, _target, _buildtype)
+    push(results, {package: pkg, modules: pkg_mods})
+  })
+
+  return results
+}
+
+return Build

cake/playdate.cm

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+// cake file for making a playdate package

cell.md

@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-JAVASCRIPT VISION
-
-I see objects as being a sort of combination of a lisp cell and a record: symbols, which are used internally, and are private and non iterable, and record string values, which are iterable, readable, and writable; of course everything becomes locked in when stone.
-
-CELLSCRIPT
-
-Javascript to its core. Objects. What does the language need? It can be quite small, I think. The key is, ANYTHING that we want to be fast and JIT'd, must be present. So, record lookups. These are actually quicker in a jit'd language that have them as a feature. Most things should be libraries. Blobs need to be in the runtime.
-
-## Actors and Objects
-Actors have a unique memory space and are made up of many objects. Objects are created in the Self style, but with a limitation: only one parent.
-
-Actors only communicate with messages. Messages are a record of data consisting of a few base types: text, numbers, arrays, records, boolean values. There is no RPC, and it is not recommended to build it into your message passing protocol. Messages are very high level things: "do X", which the actor can then go and carry out.
-
-Cell provides a fast way to condense an object for sending.
-
-## How is it different from Javascript?
-Cell condenses Javascript down into a few core ideas. There are three pillars which cell relies on:
-
-1. The idea of actors as a method of communication between parts of a program.
-2. The idea of objects as a way to organize and encapsulate data.
-3. The idea of the capability model as security.
-
-Javascript already supplied some of these things; Cell takes the core of Javascript and makes these ideas more explicit, and layers on the actor communication. It removes some goofy suckiness with javascript.
-
-It acts as something like an operating system at the application level. It allows random code to be ran on your machine without worrying it will break something. This is built into the language.
-
-It is completly dynamically typed. In comparison with C, in C, you can treat everything as everything: it is almost not typed at all. If you try to use a type as another type, no error is thrown; it might work, but it mightly silently not work. In Cell, data has a hard type, but if you use it "incorrectly", it will throw, and you can correct it. It's a live system.
-
-Cell is linked very closely with C. It's best to think of cell as a layer for message passing on top of C. It is a way to describe how to translate C tasks from one section of the program to another - or to totally different computers (actors).
-
-As such, cell's primary duty is marshalling data; so it has been designed for that to be as fast as possible. It has a syntax similar to C to make it easy to translate formulae from cell to C (or the other way, if desired).
-
-Unlike many actor languages, Cell does not eschew assignment. You must have some assignment. However, when it comes to actor->actor communication, you do not assign. RPC is too direct: one actor should not care all that much what specific functions another actor has available. It should request it to do something, and get a result, or possibly not get a result. It doesn't care what the actor does as long as that gets done.
-
-But within itself, it will assign; it must. Actors, or cells, are best thought of as computers or nodes within the internet. You request data from a URL by typing it into your browser; that computer you're attempting to reach may not even be on. It very likely has written some other data to disk whenever you contact it. But you're not doing the specific assigning. You just request data with HTTP commands.
-
-## Objects and actors
-Objects and actors are both similar ideas: they can hold data and respond to messages. Objects, local to an actor, can be thought of more like an RPC idea: they're invoked and return immediately. However, a failed RPC can crash an object; and in that case, the actor halts. It can be corrected.
-
-## What does Cell bring you over C?
-Programs which are built with C; they're built statically; they're built to not crash; they're built doing extremely low level things, like assignment.
-
-The goal of cell is to thrust your C code into the parallel, actor realm. It lets your code crash and resume it; even rewriting the C code which is butressing your cell code and reloading it live.
-
-There are two primary sorts of Cell modules you create from C code: data and IO. C code like  
-
-Where there were two similar things in javscript, one has been deleted and one kept. For example, there is only null now, no undefined. There are not four ways to test for equality; there is one.
-
-The purpose of this is to be a great language for passing messages. So it should be fast at creating records first and foremost, and finding items on them. So it needs first class, jitt'd records.
-
-Finally, it needs to use less memory. Deleting a bunch of this stuff should make that simpler.
-
-What is present?
-Objects, prototypes, numbers, arrays, strings, true, false, null.
-
-Things to do:
-
-merge typeof and instanceof. Misty has array? stone? number? etc; it needs to be generic. 5 is number returns true. 
-
-No new operator. It's the same idea though: simply instead of 'var guy = new sprite({x,y})' you would say 'var guy = sprite({x,y})', and sprite would simply be a function written to return a sprite object.
-
-One number type. Dec64. Numeric stack can be added in later: a bigint library, for example, built inside cell. 
-
-Simplify the property attributes stuff. It is simple: objects have text keys and whatever values. Objects can also have objects as values. These work like symbols. You can share them, if desired. No well known symbols exist to eliminate that much misdirection. Obejcts basically work like private keys. If you serialize an object, objects that are keys are not serialized; only textual keys are. You can do something about it with a json() method that is invoked, if you desire. You cannot retrieve 
-
-var works like let; use var instead of let
-
-no const
-
-Function closures and _ => all work the same and close over the 'this' variable
-
-Totally delete modules, coroutines, generators, proxy .. this deletes a lot of the big switch statement
-
-Add the 'go' statement for tail calls
-
-Add the 'do' statement
-
-Implementation detail: separate out arrays and objects. They are not the same. Objects no longer need to track if they're fast arrays or not. They're not. Arrays are. Always.
-
-Add the functional proxy idea. Log will be implemented through that.
-
-Remove ===; it's just == now, and !=.
-
-Remove 'continue'; now, break handles both. For a do statement, label it, and break to that label; so
-
-var x = 0
-do loop {
-  x++
-  if (x < 5) break loop // goes back to loop
-  break // exits loop
-}
-
-rename instanceof to 'is'
-
-remove undefined; all are 'null' now
-
-remove 'delete'; to remove a field, assign it to null
-
-remove with
-
-Remove Object. New records have a prototype of nothing. There are no more 'type prototypes' at all.
-
-Arrays are their own type
-
-Remove property descriptors. Properties are always settable, unless the object as a whole is stone. Stone is an object property instead of a shape property.
-
-Syntax stuff .. would like to invoke functions without (). This can effectively simulate a "getter". Make ? and all other characters usable for names. No reserve words, which are endlessly irritating.
-
-----
-
-This will all actually come about gradually. Add a few things at a time, fix up code that did not adhere. For a lot of this, no new functions will even need to be written; it's a matter of not calling certain functions that are no longer relevant, or calling different functions when required.
-
-
-## Benchmarks to implement
-### general speed
-binarytrees
-coro-prime-sieve
-edigits
-fannkuch-redux
-fasta
-http-server
-json serialize/deserialize
-knucleotide
-lru
-mandelbrot
-merkletrees
-nbody
-nsieve
-pidigits
-regex-redux
-secp256k1
-spectral-norm
-
-### function calling and recursion stress - test goto
-naive recursive fibonacci [fib(35) or fib(40)]
-tak
-ackermann
-
-### numeric
-sieve of eratosthenes [10^7 bits]
-spectral norm [5500 x 5500 matrix]
-n-body sim [50 000 - 100 000 steps]
-mandelbrot [1600x1200 image, max iter = 50]
-
-### memory & gc torture
-binary trees [depth 18 (~500 000 nodes)]
-richards task scheduler
-fannkuch redux [n=11 or 12]
-
-### dynamic object & property access
-deltablue constraint solver
-splay tree [256k nodes]
-json, wota, nota decode->encode [use 2MB example]
-
-### string / regex kernels
-regex-DNA
-fasta
-word-frequency
-
-### concurrency/message passing
-ping-pong [two actors exhange a small record N times, 1M messages end to end]
-chameneos [mating color swap game w/ randezvous]
-
-For all, track memory and time.

cell.toml

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+[compilation]
+CFLAGS = "-Isource -Wno-incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-strict-prototypes -Wno-unused-function -Wno-int-conversion"
+LDFLAGS = "-lstdc++ -lm"
+
+[compilation.macos_arm64]
+CFLAGS = "-x objective-c"
+LDFLAGS = "-framework CoreFoundation -framework CFNetwork"
+
+[compilation.playdate]
+CFLAGS = "-DMINIZ_NO_TIME -DTARGET_EXTENSION -DTARGET_PLAYDATE -I$LOCAL/PlaydateSDK/C_API"
+
+[compilation.windows]
+LDFLAGS = "-lws2_32 -lwinmm -liphlpapi -lbcrypt -lwinhttp -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++"

cellfs.cm

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+var cellfs = {}
+
+// CellFS: A filesystem implementation using miniz and raw OS filesystem
+// Supports mounting multiple sources (fs, zip) and named mounts (@name)
+
+var fd = use('fd')
+var miniz = use('miniz')
+var qop = use('qop')
+var wildstar = use('wildstar')
+
+// Internal state
+var mounts = []  // Array of {source, type, handle, name}
+
+var writepath = "."
+
+// Helper to normalize paths
+function normalize_path(path) {
+  if (!path) return ""
+  // Remove leading/trailing slashes and normalize
+  return replace(path, /^\/+|\/+$/, "")
+}
+
+// Check if a file exists in a specific mount
+function mount_exists(mount, path) {
+  var result = false
+  var _check = null
+  if (mount.type == 'zip') {
+    _check = function() {
+      mount.handle.mod(path)
+      result = true
+    } disruption {}
+    _check()
+  } else if (mount.type == 'qop') {
+    _check = function() {
+      result = mount.handle.stat(path) != null
+    } disruption {}
+    _check()
+  } else {
+    var full_path = fd.join_paths(mount.source, path)
+    _check = function() {
+      var st = fd.stat(full_path)
+      result = st.isFile || st.isDirectory
+    } disruption {}
+    _check()
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Check if a path refers to a directory in a specific mount
+function is_directory(path) {
+  var res = resolve(path)
+  var mount = res.mount
+  var result = false
+  var _check = null
+  if (mount.type == 'zip') {
+    _check = function() {
+      result = mount.handle.is_directory(path)
+    } disruption {}
+    _check()
+  } else if (mount.type == 'qop') {
+    _check = function() {
+      result = mount.handle.is_directory(path)
+    } disruption {}
+    _check()
+  } else {
+    var full_path = fd.join_paths(mount.source, path)
+    _check = function() {
+      var st = fd.stat(full_path)
+      result = st.isDirectory
+    } disruption {}
+    _check()
+  }
+  return result
+}
+
+// Resolve a path to a specific mount and relative path
+// Returns { mount, path } or throws/returns null
+function resolve(path, must_exist) {
+  path = normalize_path(path)
+  
+  // Check for named mount
+  if (starts_with(path, "@")) {
+    var idx = search(path, "/")
+    var mount_name = ""
+    var rel_path = ""
+    
+    if (idx == null) {
+      mount_name = text(path, 1)
+      rel_path = ""
+    } else {
+      mount_name = text(path, 1, idx)
+      rel_path = text(path, idx + 1)
+    }
+    
+    // Find named mount
+    var mount = null
+    arrfor(mounts, function(m) {
+      if (m.name == mount_name) {
+        mount = m
+        return true
+      }
+    }, false, true)
+    
+    if (!mount) {
+      print("Unknown mount point: @" + mount_name); disrupt
+    }
+    
+    return { mount: mount, path: rel_path }
+  }
+  
+  // Search path
+  var found_mount = null
+  arrfor(mounts, function(mount) {
+    if (mount_exists(mount, path)) {
+      found_mount = { mount: mount, path: path }
+      return true
+    }
+  }, false, true)
+  
+  if (found_mount) {
+    return found_mount
+  }
+  
+  if (must_exist) {
+    print("File not found in any mount: " + path); disrupt
+  }
+}
+
+// Mount a source
+function mount(source, name) {
+  // Check if source exists
+  var st = fd.stat(source)
+  
+  var mount_info = {
+    source: source,
+    name: name || null,
+    type: 'fs',
+    handle: null,
+    zip_blob: null
+  }
+  
+  if (st.isDirectory) {
+    mount_info.type = 'fs'
+  } else if (st.isFile) {
+    var blob = fd.slurp(source)
+    
+    var qop_archive = null
+    var _try_qop = function() {
+      qop_archive = qop.open(blob)
+    } disruption {}
+    _try_qop()
+
+    if (qop_archive) {
+        mount_info.type = 'qop'
+        mount_info.handle = qop_archive
+        mount_info.zip_blob = blob // keep blob alive
+    } else {
+        var zip = miniz.read(blob)
+        if (!is_object(zip) || !is_function(zip.count)) {
+          print("Invalid archive file (not zip or qop): " + source); disrupt
+        }
+        
+        mount_info.type = 'zip'
+        mount_info.handle = zip
+        mount_info.zip_blob = blob // keep blob alive
+    }
+  } else {
+    print("Unsupported mount source type: " + source); disrupt
+  }
+  
+  push(mounts, mount_info)
+}
+
+// Unmount
+function unmount(name_or_source) {
+  mounts = filter(mounts, function(mount) {
+    return mount.name != name_or_source && mount.source != name_or_source
+  })
+}
+
+// Read file
+function slurp(path) {
+  var res = resolve(path, true)
+  if (!res) { print("File not found: " + path); disrupt }
+
+  if (res.mount.type == 'zip') {
+    return res.mount.handle.slurp(res.path)
+  } else if (res.mount.type == 'qop') {
+    var data = res.mount.handle.read(res.path)
+    if (!data) { print("File not found in qop: " + path); disrupt }
+    return data
+  } else {
+    var full_path = fd.join_paths(res.mount.source, res.path)
+    return fd.slurp(full_path)
+  }
+}
+
+// Write file
+function slurpwrite(path, data) {
+  var full_path = writepath + "/" + path
+  
+  var f = fd.open(full_path, 'w')
+  fd.write(f, data)
+  fd.close(f)
+}
+
+// Check existence
+function exists(path) {
+  var res = resolve(path, false)
+  if (starts_with(path, "@")) {
+    return mount_exists(res.mount, res.path)
+  }
+  return res != null
+}
+
+// Stat
+function stat(path) {
+  var res = resolve(path, true)
+  if (!res) { print("File not found: " + path); disrupt }
+
+  if (res.mount.type == 'zip') {
+    var mod = res.mount.handle.mod(res.path)
+    return {
+      filesize: 0, 
+      modtime: mod * 1000,
+      isDirectory: false 
+    }
+  } else if (res.mount.type == 'qop') {
+    var s = res.mount.handle.stat(res.path)
+    if (!s) { print("File not found in qop: " + path); disrupt }
+    return {
+        filesize: s.size,
+        modtime: s.modtime,
+        isDirectory: s.isDirectory
+    }
+  } else {
+    var full_path = fd.join_paths(res.mount.source, res.path)
+    var s = fd.stat(full_path)
+    return {
+      filesize: s.size,
+      modtime: s.mtime,
+      isDirectory: s.isDirectory
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Get search paths
+function searchpath() {
+  return array(mounts)
+}
+
+// Mount a package using the shop system
+function mount_package(name) {
+  if (name == null) {
+    mount('.', null)
+    return
+  }
+  
+  var shop = use('internal/shop')
+  var dir = shop.get_package_dir(name)
+
+  if (!dir) {
+    print("Package not found: " + name); disrupt
+  }
+
+  mount(dir, name)
+}
+
+// New functions for qjs_io compatibility
+
+function match(str, pattern) {
+  return wildstar.match(pattern, str, wildstar.WM_PATHNAME | wildstar.WM_PERIOD | wildstar.WM_WILDSTAR)
+}
+
+function rm(path) {
+  var res = resolve(path, true)
+  if (res.mount.type != 'fs') { print("Cannot delete from non-fs mount"); disrupt }
+  
+  var full_path = fd.join_paths(res.mount.source, res.path)
+  var st = fd.stat(full_path)
+  if (st.isDirectory) fd.rmdir(full_path)
+  else fd.unlink(full_path)
+}
+
+function mkdir(path) {
+  var full = fd.join_paths(writepath, path)
+  fd.mkdir(full)
+}
+
+function set_writepath(path) {
+  writepath = path
+}
+
+function basedir() {
+  return fd.getcwd()
+}
+
+function prefdir(org, app) {
+   return "./"
+}
+
+function realdir(path) {
+   var res = resolve(path, false)
+   if (!res) return null
+   return fd.join_paths(res.mount.source, res.path)
+}
+
+function enumerate(path, recurse) {
+    if (path == null) path = ""
+    
+    var res = resolve(path, true)
+    var results = []
+    
+    function visit(curr_full, rel_prefix) {
+       var list = fd.readdir(curr_full)
+       if (!list) return
+       
+       arrfor(list, function(item) {
+          var item_rel = rel_prefix ? rel_prefix + "/" + item : item
+          push(results, item_rel)
+          
+          if (recurse) {
+             var st = fd.stat(fd.join_paths(curr_full, item))
+             if (st.isDirectory) {
+                visit(fd.join_paths(curr_full, item), item_rel)
+             }
+          }
+       })
+    }
+    
+    if (res.mount.type == 'fs') {
+        var full = fd.join_paths(res.mount.source, res.path)
+        var st = fd.stat(full)
+        if (st && st.isDirectory) {
+           visit(full, "")
+        }
+    } else if (res.mount.type == 'qop') {
+        var all = res.mount.handle.list()
+        var prefix = res.path ? res.path + "/" : ""
+        var prefix_len = length(prefix)
+        
+        // Use a set to avoid duplicates if we are simulating directories
+        var seen = {}
+        
+        arrfor(all, function(p) {
+            if (starts_with(p, prefix)) {
+                var rel = text(p, prefix_len)
+                if (length(rel) == 0) return
+
+                if (!recurse) {
+                    var slash = search(rel, '/')
+                    if (slash != null) {
+                        rel = text(rel, 0, slash)
+                    }
+                }
+                
+                if (!seen[rel]) {
+                    seen[rel] = true
+                    push(results, rel)
+                }
+            }
+        })
+    }
+    
+    return results
+}
+
+function globfs(globs, dir) {
+   if (dir == null) dir = ""
+   var res = resolve(dir, true)
+   var results = []
+   
+   function check_neg(path) {
+        var result = false
+        arrfor(globs, function(g) {
+            if (starts_with(g, "!") && wildstar.match(text(g, 1), path, wildstar.WM_WILDSTAR)) {
+                result = true
+                return true
+            }
+        }, false, true)
+        return result
+    }
+    
+   function check_pos(path) {
+        var result = false
+        arrfor(globs, function(g) {
+            if (!starts_with(g, "!") && wildstar.match(g, path, wildstar.WM_WILDSTAR)) {
+                result = true
+                return true
+            }
+        }, false, true)
+        return result
+    }
+
+   function visit(curr_full, rel_prefix) {
+       if (rel_prefix && check_neg(rel_prefix)) return
+
+       var list = fd.readdir(curr_full)
+       if (!list) return
+       
+       arrfor(list, function(item) {
+          var item_rel = rel_prefix ? rel_prefix + "/" + item : item
+          
+          var child_full = fd.join_paths(curr_full, item)
+          var st = fd.stat(child_full)
+          
+          if (st.isDirectory) {
+              if (!check_neg(item_rel)) {
+                 visit(child_full, item_rel)
+              }
+          } else {
+              if (!check_neg(item_rel) && check_pos(item_rel)) {
+                  push(results, item_rel)
+              }
+          }
+       })
+   }
+   
+   if (res.mount.type == 'fs') {
+        var full = fd.join_paths(res.mount.source, res.path)
+        var st = fd.stat(full)
+        if (st && st.isDirectory) {
+           visit(full, "")
+        }
+   } else if (res.mount.type == 'qop') {
+        var all = res.mount.handle.list()
+        var prefix = res.path ? res.path + "/" : ""
+        var prefix_len = length(prefix)
+        
+        arrfor(all, function(p) {
+            if (starts_with(p, prefix)) {
+                var rel = text(p, prefix_len)
+                if (length(rel) == 0) return
+
+                if (!check_neg(rel) && check_pos(rel)) {
+                    push(results, rel)
+                }
+            }
+        })
+   }
+   
+   return results
+}
+
+// Exports
+cellfs.mount = mount
+cellfs.mount_package = mount_package
+cellfs.unmount = unmount
+cellfs.slurp = slurp
+cellfs.slurpwrite = slurpwrite
+cellfs.exists = exists
+cellfs.is_directory = is_directory
+cellfs.stat = stat
+cellfs.searchpath = searchpath
+cellfs.match = match
+cellfs.enumerate = enumerate
+cellfs.globfs = globfs
+cellfs.rm = rm
+cellfs.mkdir = mkdir
+cellfs.writepath = set_writepath
+cellfs.basedir = basedir
+cellfs.prefdir = prefdir
+cellfs.realdir = realdir
+
+cellfs.mount('.')
+
+return cellfs

clean.ce

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+// cell clean [<scope>] - Remove cached material to force refetch/rebuild
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cell clean              Clean build outputs for current directory package
+//   cell clean .            Clean build outputs for current directory package
+//   cell clean <locator>    Clean build outputs for specific package
+//   cell clean shop         Clean entire shop
+//   cell clean world        Clean all world packages
+//
+// Options:
+//   --build      Remove build outputs only (default)
+//   --fetch      Remove fetched sources only
+//   --all        Remove both build outputs and fetched sources
+//   --deep       Apply to full dependency closure
+//   --dry-run    Show what would be deleted
+
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var pkg = use('package')
+var fd = use('fd')
+
+var scope = null
+var clean_build = false
+var clean_fetch = false
+var deep = false
+var dry_run = false
+var i = 0
+var resolved = null
+var deps = null
+
+for (i = 0; i < length(args); i++) {
+  if (args[i] == '--build') {
+    clean_build = true
+  } else if (args[i] == '--fetch') {
+    clean_fetch = true
+  } else if (args[i] == '--all') {
+    clean_build = true
+    clean_fetch = true
+  } else if (args[i] == '--deep') {
+    deep = true
+  } else if (args[i] == '--dry-run') {
+    dry_run = true
+  } else if (args[i] == '--help' || args[i] == '-h') {
+    log.console("Usage: cell clean [<scope>] [options]")
+    log.console("")
+    log.console("Remove cached material to force refetch/rebuild.")
+    log.console("")
+    log.console("Scopes:")
+    log.console("  <locator>  Clean specific package")
+    log.console("  shop       Clean entire shop")
+    log.console("  world      Clean all world packages")
+    log.console("")
+    log.console("Options:")
+    log.console("  --build    Remove build outputs only (default)")
+    log.console("  --fetch    Remove fetched sources only")
+    log.console("  --all      Remove both build outputs and fetched sources")
+    log.console("  --deep     Apply to full dependency closure")
+    log.console("  --dry-run  Show what would be deleted")
+    $stop()
+  } else if (!starts_with(args[i], '-')) {
+    scope = args[i]
+  }
+}
+
+// Default to --build if nothing specified
+if (!clean_build && !clean_fetch) {
+  clean_build = true
+}
+
+// Default scope to current directory
+if (!scope) {
+  scope = '.'
+}
+
+// Resolve local paths for single package scope
+var is_shop_scope = (scope == 'shop')
+var is_world_scope = (scope == 'world')
+
+if (!is_shop_scope && !is_world_scope) {
+  if (scope == '.' || starts_with(scope, './') || starts_with(scope, '../') || fd.is_dir(scope)) {
+    resolved = fd.realpath(scope)
+    if (resolved) {
+      scope = resolved
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+var files_to_delete = []
+var dirs_to_delete = []
+
+// Gather packages to clean
+var packages_to_clean = []
+var _gather = null
+
+if (is_shop_scope) {
+  packages_to_clean = shop.list_packages()
+} else if (is_world_scope) {
+  // For now, world is the same as shop
+  packages_to_clean = shop.list_packages()
+} else {
+  // Single package
+  push(packages_to_clean, scope)
+
+  if (deep) {
+    _gather = function() {
+      deps = pkg.gather_dependencies(scope)
+      arrfor(deps, function(dep) {
+        push(packages_to_clean, dep)
+      })
+    } disruption {
+      // Skip if can't read dependencies
+    }
+    _gather()
+  }
+}
+
+// Gather files to clean
+var lib_dir = shop.get_lib_dir()
+var build_dir = shop.get_build_dir()
+var packages_dir = replace(shop.get_package_dir(''), /\/$/, '') // Get base packages dir
+
+if (clean_build) {
+  if (is_shop_scope) {
+    // Clean entire build and lib directories
+    if (fd.is_dir(build_dir)) {
+      push(dirs_to_delete, build_dir)
+    }
+    if (fd.is_dir(lib_dir)) {
+      push(dirs_to_delete, lib_dir)
+    }
+  } else {
+    // Clean specific package libraries
+    arrfor(packages_to_clean, function(p) {
+      if (p == 'core') return
+
+      var lib_name = shop.lib_name_for_package(p)
+      var dylib_ext = '.dylib'
+      var lib_path = lib_dir + '/' + lib_name + dylib_ext
+
+      if (fd.is_file(lib_path)) {
+        push(files_to_delete, lib_path)
+      }
+
+      // Also check for .so and .dll
+      var so_path = lib_dir + '/' + lib_name + '.so'
+      var dll_path = lib_dir + '/' + lib_name + '.dll'
+      if (fd.is_file(so_path)) {
+        push(files_to_delete, so_path)
+      }
+      if (fd.is_file(dll_path)) {
+        push(files_to_delete, dll_path)
+      }
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+if (clean_fetch) {
+  if (is_shop_scope) {
+    // Clean entire packages directory (dangerous!)
+    if (fd.is_dir(packages_dir)) {
+      push(dirs_to_delete, packages_dir)
+    }
+  } else {
+    // Clean specific package directories
+    arrfor(packages_to_clean, function(p) {
+      if (p == 'core') return
+
+      var pkg_dir = shop.get_package_dir(p)
+      if (fd.is_dir(pkg_dir) || fd.is_link(pkg_dir)) {
+        push(dirs_to_delete, pkg_dir)
+      }
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+// Execute or report
+var deleted_count = 0
+if (dry_run) {
+  log.console("Would delete:")
+  if (length(files_to_delete) == 0 && length(dirs_to_delete) == 0) {
+    log.console("  (nothing to clean)")
+  } else {
+    arrfor(files_to_delete, function(f) {
+      log.console("  [file] " + f)
+    })
+    arrfor(dirs_to_delete, function(d) {
+      log.console("  [dir]  " + d)
+    })
+  }
+} else {
+  arrfor(files_to_delete, function(f) {
+    var _del = function() {
+      fd.unlink(f)
+      log.console("Deleted: " + f)
+      deleted_count++
+    } disruption {
+      log.error("Failed to delete " + f)
+    }
+    _del()
+  })
+
+  arrfor(dirs_to_delete, function(d) {
+    var _del = function() {
+      if (fd.is_link(d)) {
+        fd.unlink(d)
+      } else {
+        fd.rmdir(d, 1) // recursive
+      }
+      log.console("Deleted: " + d)
+      deleted_count++
+    } disruption {
+      log.error("Failed to delete " + d)
+    }
+    _del()
+  })
+
+  if (deleted_count == 0) {
+    log.console("Nothing to clean.")
+  } else {
+    log.console("")
+    log.console("Clean complete: " + text(deleted_count) + " item(s) deleted.")
+  }
+}
+
+$stop()

clone.ce

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+// cell clone <origin> <path>
+// Clones a cell package <origin> to the local <path>, and links it.
+
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var link = use('link')
+var fd = use('fd')
+var http = use('http')
+var miniz = use('miniz')
+
+var resolved = null
+var cwd = null
+var parent = null
+
+if (length(args) < 2) {
+  log.console("Usage: cell clone <origin> <path>")
+  log.console("Clones a cell package to a local path and links it.")
+  $stop()
+}
+
+var origin = args[0]
+var target_path = args[1]
+
+// Resolve target path to absolute
+if (target_path == '.' || starts_with(target_path, './') || starts_with(target_path, '../')) {
+  resolved = fd.realpath(target_path)
+  if (resolved) {
+    target_path = resolved
+  } else {
+    // Path doesn't exist yet, resolve relative to cwd
+    cwd = fd.realpath('.')
+    if (target_path == '.') {
+      target_path = cwd
+    } else if (starts_with(target_path, './')) {
+      target_path = cwd + text(target_path, 1)
+    } else if (starts_with(target_path, '../')) {
+      // Go up one directory from cwd
+      parent = fd.dirname(cwd)
+      target_path = parent + text(target_path, 2)
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Check if target already exists
+if (fd.is_dir(target_path)) {
+  log.console("Error: " + target_path + " already exists")
+  $stop()
+}
+
+log.console("Cloning " + origin + " to " + target_path + "...")
+
+// Get the latest commit
+var info = shop.resolve_package_info(origin)
+if (!info || info == 'local') {
+  log.console("Error: " + origin + " is not a remote package")
+  $stop()
+}
+
+// Update to get the commit hash
+var update_result = shop.update(origin)
+if (!update_result) {
+  log.console("Error: Could not fetch " + origin)
+  $stop()
+}
+
+// Fetch and extract to the target path
+var lock = shop.load_lock()
+var entry = lock[origin]
+if (!entry || !entry.commit) {
+  log.console("Error: No commit found for " + origin)
+  $stop()
+}
+
+var download_url = shop.get_download_url(origin, entry.commit)
+log.console("Downloading from " + download_url)
+
+var zip_blob = null
+var zip = null
+var count = 0
+var i = 0
+var filename = null
+var first_slash = null
+var rel_path = null
+var full_path = null
+var dir_path = null
+
+var _clone = function() {
+  zip_blob = http.fetch(download_url)
+
+  // Extract zip to target path
+  zip = miniz.read(zip_blob)
+  if (!zip) {
+    log.console("Error: Failed to read zip archive")
+    $stop()
+  }
+
+  // Create target directory
+  fd.mkdir(target_path)
+
+  count = zip.count()
+  for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+    if (zip.is_directory(i)) continue
+    filename = zip.get_filename(i)
+    first_slash = search(filename, '/')
+    if (first_slash == null) continue
+    if (first_slash + 1 >= length(filename)) continue
+
+    rel_path = text(filename, first_slash + 1)
+    full_path = target_path + '/' + rel_path
+    dir_path = fd.dirname(full_path)
+
+    // Ensure directory exists
+    if (!fd.is_dir(dir_path)) {
+      fd.mkdir(dir_path)
+    }
+    fd.slurpwrite(full_path, zip.slurp(filename))
+  }
+
+  log.console("Extracted to " + target_path)
+
+  // Link the origin to the cloned path
+  link.add(origin, target_path, shop)
+  log.console("Linked " + origin + " -> " + target_path)
+} disruption {
+  log.console("Error during clone")
+}
+_clone()
+
+$stop()

compare_aot.ce

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+// compare_aot.ce — compile a .cm module via both paths and compare results
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cell --dev compare_aot.ce <module.cm>
+
+var build = use('build')
+var fd_mod = use('fd')
+var os = use('os')
+var json = use('json')
+
+var show = function(v) {
+  return json.encode(v)
+}
+
+if (length(args) < 1) {
+  print('usage: cell --dev compare_aot.ce <module.cm>')
+  return
+}
+
+var file = args[0]
+if (!fd_mod.is_file(file)) {
+  if (!ends_with(file, '.cm') && fd_mod.is_file(file + '.cm'))
+    file = file + '.cm'
+  else {
+    print('file not found: ' + file)
+    return
+  }
+}
+
+var abs = fd_mod.realpath(file)
+
+// Shared compilation front-end
+var tokenize = use('tokenize')
+var parse_mod = use('parse')
+var fold = use('fold')
+var mcode_mod = use('mcode')
+var streamline_mod = use('streamline')
+
+var src = text(fd_mod.slurp(abs))
+var tok = tokenize(src, abs)
+var ast = parse_mod(tok.tokens, src, abs, tokenize)
+var folded = fold(ast)
+var compiled = mcode_mod(folded)
+var optimized = streamline_mod(compiled)
+
+// --- Interpreted (mach VM) ---
+print('--- interpreted ---')
+var mcode_json = json.encode(optimized)
+var mach_blob = mach_compile_mcode_bin(abs, mcode_json)
+var result_interp = mach_load(mach_blob, stone({}))
+print('result: ' + show(result_interp))
+
+// --- Native (AOT via QBE) ---
+print('\n--- native ---')
+var dylib_path = build.compile_native(abs, null, null, null)
+print('dylib: ' + dylib_path)
+
+var handle = os.dylib_open(dylib_path)
+if (!handle) {
+  print('failed to open dylib')
+  return
+}
+
+// Build env with runtime functions. Must include starts_with etc. because
+// the GC can lose global object properties after compaction.
+var env = stone({
+  logical: logical,
+  some: some,
+  every: every,
+  starts_with: starts_with,
+  ends_with: ends_with,
+  log: log,
+  fallback: fallback,
+  parallel: parallel,
+  race: race,
+  sequence: sequence
+})
+
+var result_native = os.native_module_load(handle, env)
+print('result: ' + show(result_native))
+
+// --- Comparison ---
+print('\n--- comparison ---')
+var s_interp = show(result_interp)
+var s_native = show(result_native)
+if (s_interp == s_native) {
+  print('MATCH')
+} else {
+  print('MISMATCH')
+  print('  interp: ' + s_interp)
+  print('  native: ' + s_native)
+}

compile.ce

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+// compile.ce — compile a .cm or .ce file to native .dylib via QBE
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cell compile <file.cm|file.ce>
+//
+// Installs the dylib to .cell/lib/<pkg>/<stem>.dylib
+
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var build = use('build')
+var fd = use('fd')
+
+if (length(args) < 1) {
+  print('usage: cell compile <file.cm|file.ce>')
+  return
+}
+
+var file = args[0]
+if (!fd.is_file(file)) {
+  print('file not found: ' + file)
+  return
+}
+
+var abs = fd.realpath(file)
+var file_info = shop.file_info(abs)
+var pkg = file_info.package
+
+build.compile_native(abs, null, null, pkg)

compile_seed.ce

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+// compile_seed.ce — compile a .cm module to native .dylib via QBE (seed mode)
+// Usage: ./cell --dev --seed compile_seed <file.cm>
+
+var fd = use("fd")
+var os = use("os")
+var tokenize = use("tokenize")
+var parse = use("parse")
+var fold = use("fold")
+var mcode = use("mcode")
+var streamline = use("streamline")
+var qbe_macros = use("qbe")
+var qbe_emit = use("qbe_emit")
+
+if (length(args) < 1) {
+  print("usage: cell --dev --seed compile_seed <file.cm>")
+  disrupt
+}
+
+var file = args[0]
+var base = file
+if (ends_with(base, ".cm")) {
+  base = text(base, 0, length(base) - 3)
+} else if (ends_with(base, ".ce")) {
+  base = text(base, 0, length(base) - 3)
+}
+
+var safe = replace(replace(replace(base, "/", "_"), "-", "_"), ".", "_")
+var symbol = "js_" + safe + "_use"
+var tmp = "/tmp/qbe_" + safe
+var ssa_path = tmp + ".ssa"
+var s_path = tmp + ".s"
+var o_path = tmp + ".o"
+var rt_o_path = "/tmp/qbe_rt.o"
+var dylib_path = file + ".dylib"
+var rc = 0
+
+// Step 1: compile to QBE IL
+print("compiling " + file + " to QBE IL...")
+var src = text(fd.slurp(file))
+var result = tokenize(src, file)
+var ast = parse(result.tokens, src, file, tokenize)
+var folded = fold(ast)
+var compiled = mcode(folded)
+var optimized = streamline(compiled)
+var il = qbe_emit(optimized, qbe_macros)
+
+// Step 2: append wrapper function
+var wrapper = `
+export function l $${symbol}(l %ctx) {
+@entry
+  %result =l call $cell_rt_module_entry(l %ctx)
+  ret %result
+}
+`
+il = il + wrapper
+
+// Write IL to file — remove old file first to avoid leftover content
+if (fd.is_file(ssa_path)) fd.unlink(ssa_path)
+var out_fd = fd.open(ssa_path, 1537, 420)
+fd.write(out_fd, il)
+fd.close(out_fd)
+print("wrote " + ssa_path + " (" + text(length(il)) + " bytes)")
+
+// Step 3: compile QBE IL to assembly
+print("qbe compile...")
+rc = os.system("qbe -o " + s_path + " " + ssa_path)
+if (rc != 0) {
+  print("qbe compilation failed")
+  disrupt
+}
+
+// Step 4: assemble
+print("assemble...")
+rc = os.system("cc -c " + s_path + " -o " + o_path)
+if (rc != 0) {
+  print("assembly failed")
+  disrupt
+}
+
+// Step 5: compile runtime stubs
+if (!fd.is_file(rt_o_path)) {
+  print("compile runtime stubs...")
+  rc = os.system("cc -c source/qbe_helpers.c -o " + rt_o_path + " -fPIC -Isource")
+  if (rc != 0) {
+    print("runtime stubs compilation failed")
+    disrupt
+  }
+}
+
+// Step 6: link dylib
+print("link...")
+rc = os.system("cc -shared -fPIC -undefined dynamic_lookup " + o_path + " " + rt_o_path + " -o " + dylib_path)
+if (rc != 0) {
+  print("linking failed")
+  disrupt
+}
+
+print("built: " + dylib_path)

config.ce

@@ -0,0 +1,222 @@
+// cell config - Manage system and actor configurations
+
+var toml = use('toml')
+var pkg = use('package')
+
+function print_help() {
+  log.console("Usage: cell config <command> [options]")
+  log.console("")
+  log.console("Commands:")
+  log.console("  get <key>                    Get a configuration value")
+  log.console("  set <key> <value>            Set a configuration value")
+  log.console("  list                         List all configurations")
+  log.console("  actor <name> get <key>       Get actor-specific config")
+  log.console("  actor <name> set <key> <val> Set actor-specific config")
+  log.console("  actor <name> list            List actor configurations")
+  log.console("")
+  log.console("Examples:")
+  log.console("  cell config get system.ar_timer")
+  log.console("  cell config set system.net_service 0.2")
+  log.console("  cell config actor prosperon/_sdl_video set resolution 1920x1080")
+  log.console("  cell config actor extramath/spline set precision high")
+  log.console("")
+  log.console("System keys:")
+  log.console("  system.ar_timer         - Seconds before idle actor reclamation")
+  log.console("  system.actor_memory     - MB of memory an actor can use (0=unbounded)")
+  log.console("  system.net_service      - Seconds per network service pull")
+  log.console("  system.reply_timeout    - Seconds to hold callback for replies (0=unbounded)")
+  log.console("  system.actor_max        - Max number of simultaneous actors")
+  log.console("  system.stack_max        - MB of memory each actor's stack can grow to")
+}
+
+// Parse a dot-notation key into path segments
+function parse_key(key) {
+  return array(key, '.')
+}
+
+// Get a value from nested object using path
+function get_nested(obj, path) {
+  var current = obj
+  arrfor(path, function(segment) {
+    if (is_null(current) || !is_object(current)) return null
+    current = current[segment]
+  })
+  return current
+}
+
+// Set a value in nested object using path
+function set_nested(obj, path, value) {
+  var current = obj
+  var i = 0
+  var segment = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(path) - 1; i++) {
+    segment = path[i]
+    if (is_null(current[segment]) || !is_object(current[segment])) {
+      current[segment] = {}
+    }
+    current = current[segment]
+  }
+  current[path[length(path) - 1]] = value
+}
+
+// Parse value string into appropriate type
+function parse_value(str) {
+  var num_str = null
+  var n = null
+  // Boolean
+  if (str == 'true') return true
+  if (str == 'false') return false
+
+  // Number
+  num_str = replace(str, /_/g, '')
+  n = number(num_str)
+  if (n != null) return n
+
+  // String
+  return str
+}
+
+// Format value for display
+function format_value(val) {
+  if (is_text(val)) return '"' + val + '"'
+  return text(val)
+}
+
+// Print configuration tree recursively
+function print_config(obj, pfx) {
+  var p = pfx || ''
+  arrfor(array(obj), function(key) {
+    var val = obj[key]
+    var full_key = p ? p + '.' + key : key
+
+    if (is_object(val))
+      print_config(val, full_key)
+    else if (!is_null(val))
+      log.console(full_key + ' = ' + format_value(val))
+  })
+}
+
+// Main command handling
+if (length(args) == 0) {
+  print_help()
+  $stop()
+}
+
+var config = pkg.load_config()
+if (!config) {
+  log.error("Failed to load cell.toml")
+  $stop()
+}
+
+var command = args[0]
+var key = null
+var path = null
+var value = null
+var value_str = null
+var valid_system_keys = null
+var actor_name = null
+var actor_cmd = null
+
+if (command == 'help' || command == '-h' || command == '--help') {
+  print_help()
+} else if (command == 'list') {
+  log.console("# Cell Configuration")
+  log.console("")
+  print_config(config)
+} else if (command == 'get') {
+  if (length(args) < 2) {
+    log.error("Usage: cell config get <key>")
+    $stop()
+  }
+  key = args[1]
+  path = parse_key(key)
+  value = get_nested(config, path)
+
+  if (value == null) {
+    log.error("Key not found: " + key)
+  } else if (is_object(value)) {
+    print_config(value, key)
+  } else {
+    log.console(key + ' = ' + format_value(value))
+  }
+} else if (command == 'set') {
+  if (length(args) < 3) {
+    log.error("Usage: cell config set <key> <value>")
+    $stop()
+  }
+  key = args[1]
+  value_str = args[2]
+  path = parse_key(key)
+  value = parse_value(value_str)
+
+  if (path[0] == 'system') {
+    valid_system_keys = [
+      'ar_timer', 'actor_memory', 'net_service',
+      'reply_timeout', 'actor_max', 'stack_max'
+    ]
+    if (find(valid_system_keys, path[1]) == null) {
+      log.error("Invalid system key. Valid keys: " + text(valid_system_keys, ', '))
+      $stop()
+    }
+  }
+
+  set_nested(config, path, value)
+  pkg.save_config(config)
+  log.console("Set " + key + " = " + format_value(value))
+} else if (command == 'actor') {
+  if (length(args) < 3) {
+    log.error("Usage: cell config actor <name> <command> [options]")
+    $stop()
+  }
+
+  actor_name = args[1]
+  actor_cmd = args[2]
+
+  config.actors = config.actors || {}
+  config.actors[actor_name] = config.actors[actor_name] || {}
+
+  if (actor_cmd == 'list') {
+    if (length(array(config.actors[actor_name])) == 0) {
+      log.console("No configuration for actor: " + actor_name)
+    } else {
+      log.console("# Configuration for actor: " + actor_name)
+      log.console("")
+      print_config(config.actors[actor_name], 'actors.' + actor_name)
+    }
+  } else if (actor_cmd == 'get') {
+    if (length(args) < 4) {
+      log.error("Usage: cell config actor <name> get <key>")
+      $stop()
+    }
+    key = args[3]
+    path = parse_key(key)
+    value = get_nested(config.actors[actor_name], path)
+
+    if (value == null) {
+      log.error("Key not found for actor " + actor_name + ": " + key)
+    } else {
+      log.console('actors.' + actor_name + '.' + key + ' = ' + format_value(value))
+    }
+  } else if (actor_cmd == 'set') {
+    if (length(args) < 5) {
+      log.error("Usage: cell config actor <name> set <key> <value>")
+      $stop()
+    }
+    key = args[3]
+    value_str = args[4]
+    path = parse_key(key)
+    value = parse_value(value_str)
+
+    set_nested(config.actors[actor_name], path, value)
+    pkg.save_config(config)
+    log.console("Set actors." + actor_name + "." + key + " = " + format_value(value))
+  } else {
+    log.error("Unknown actor command: " + actor_cmd)
+    log.console("Valid commands: list, get, set")
+  }
+} else {
+  log.error("Unknown command: " + command)
+  print_help()
+}
+
+$stop()

crypto.c

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+#include "cell.h"
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "monocypher.h"
+
+/*
+  Crypto Module Documentation
+  
+  This module provides cryptographic functions using the Monocypher library.
+  All inputs and outputs are Blobs.
+  
+  Functions:
+  
+  - keypair() -> { public: Blob(256 bits), private: Blob(256 bits) }
+    Generates a new random X25519 keypair.
+    
+  - shared(public_key, private_key) -> Blob(256 bits)
+    Computes a shared secret from your private key and another's public key (X25519).
+    Input keys must be 256 bits (32 bytes).
+    
+  - blake2(data, [hash_size_bytes=32]) -> Blob
+    Computes the BLAKE2b hash of the data.
+    Default hash size is 32 bytes (256 bits). Supports 1-64 bytes.
+    
+  - sign(secret_key, message) -> Blob(512 bits)
+    Signs a message using EdDSA. 
+    secret_key must be 512 bits (64 bytes). 
+    (Note: If you have a 32-byte seed, extend it first or use appropriate key generation).
+    Returns a 64-byte signature.
+    
+  - verify(signature, public_key, message) -> bool
+    Verifies an EdDSA signature.
+    signature: 512 bits (64 bytes).
+    public_key: 256 bits (32 bytes).
+    Returns true if valid, false otherwise.
+    
+  - lock(key, nonce, message, [ad]) -> Blob
+    Encrypts and authenticates a message using XChaCha20-Poly1305.
+    key: 256 bits (32 bytes).
+    nonce: 192 bits (24 bytes).
+    ad: Optional associated data (Blob).
+    Returns a blob containing the ciphertext followed by the 16-byte MAC.
+    
+  - unlock(key, nonce, ciphertext_with_mac, [ad]) -> Blob or null
+    Decrypts and verifies a message.
+    key: 256 bits (32 bytes).
+    nonce: 192 bits (24 bytes).
+    ciphertext_with_mac: Must include the 16-byte MAC at the end.
+    ad: Optional associated data (Blob).
+    Returns the plaintext Blob if successful, or null if verification fails.
+*/
+
+// Helper to get blob data and check exact bit length
+static void *get_blob_check_bits(JSContext *js, JSValue val, size_t expected_bits, const char *name) {
+    size_t bits;
+    void* result = js_get_blob_data_bits(js, &bits, val);
+    if (result == -1) {
+        return NULL; // Exception already thrown by js_get_blob_data_bits
+    }
+
+    if (bits != expected_bits) {
+        JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "%s: expected %zu bits, got %zu", name, expected_bits, bits);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+// Helper to get any blob data (checking it is a stoned blob)
+static void *get_blob_any(JSContext *js, JSValue val, size_t *out_bits, const char *name) {
+    void *result = js_get_blob_data_bits(js, out_bits, val);
+    if (result == -1)
+        return NULL;
+    return result;
+}
+
+
+JSValue js_crypto_shared(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
+{
+    if (argc < 2) {
+        return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "crypto.shared: expected public_key, private_key");
+    }
+
+    uint8_t *pub = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[0], 256, "crypto.shared public_key");
+    if (!pub) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+
+    uint8_t *priv = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[1], 256, "crypto.shared private_key");
+    if (!priv) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+
+    uint8_t shared[32];
+    crypto_x25519(shared, priv, pub);
+
+    return js_new_blob_stoned_copy(js, shared, 32);
+}
+
+JSValue js_crypto_blake2(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv)
+{
+    if (argc < 1)
+        return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "crypto.blake2: expected data blob");
+    
+    size_t data_bits;
+    uint8_t *data = get_blob_any(js, argv[0], &data_bits, "crypto.blake2 data");
+    if (!data) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    int32_t hash_len = 32;
+    if (argc > 1) {
+        if (JS_ToInt32(js, &hash_len, argv[1]))
+            return JS_EXCEPTION;
+        if (hash_len < 1 || hash_len > 64)
+            return JS_ThrowRangeError(js, "crypto.blake2: hash length must be between 1 and 64 bytes");
+    }
+    
+    uint8_t hash[64];
+    // Use (bits + 7) / 8 to get byte length covering all bits
+    crypto_blake2b(hash, hash_len, data, (data_bits + 7) / 8);
+    
+    return js_new_blob_stoned_copy(js, hash, hash_len);
+}
+
+JSValue js_crypto_sign(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv) {
+    if (argc < 2) return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "crypto.sign: expected secret_key, message");
+    
+    uint8_t *sk = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[0], 512, "crypto.sign secret_key");
+    if (!sk) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    size_t msg_bits;
+    uint8_t *msg = get_blob_any(js, argv[1], &msg_bits, "crypto.sign message");
+    if (!msg) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    uint8_t sig[64];
+    crypto_eddsa_sign(sig, sk, msg, (msg_bits + 7) / 8);
+    
+    return js_new_blob_stoned_copy(js, sig, 64);
+}
+
+JSValue js_crypto_verify(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv) {
+    if (argc < 3) return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "crypto.verify: expected signature, public_key, message");
+    
+    uint8_t *sig = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[0], 512, "crypto.verify signature");
+    if (!sig) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    uint8_t *pk = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[1], 256, "crypto.verify public_key");
+    if (!pk) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    size_t msg_bits;
+    uint8_t *msg = get_blob_any(js, argv[2], &msg_bits, "crypto.verify message");
+    if (!msg) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    int ret = crypto_eddsa_check(sig, pk, msg, (msg_bits + 7) / 8);
+    return JS_NewBool(js, ret == 0);
+}
+
+JSValue js_crypto_lock(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv) {
+    if (argc < 3) return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "crypto.lock: expected key, nonce, message, [ad]");
+    
+    uint8_t *key = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[0], 256, "crypto.lock key");
+    if (!key) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    uint8_t *nonce = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[1], 192, "crypto.lock nonce");
+    if (!nonce) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    size_t msg_bits;
+    uint8_t *msg = get_blob_any(js, argv[2], &msg_bits, "crypto.lock message");
+    if (!msg) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    size_t msg_len = (msg_bits + 7) / 8;
+    
+    size_t ad_len = 0;
+    uint8_t *ad = NULL;
+    if (argc > 3 && !JS_IsNull(argv[3])) {
+        size_t ad_bits;
+        ad = get_blob_any(js, argv[3], &ad_bits, "crypto.lock ad");
+        if (!ad) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+        ad_len = (ad_bits + 7) / 8;
+    }
+    
+    size_t out_len = msg_len + 16;
+    uint8_t *out = malloc(out_len);
+    if (!out) return JS_ThrowOutOfMemory(js);
+    
+    // Output: [Ciphertext (msg_len)] [MAC (16)]
+    crypto_aead_lock(out, out + msg_len, key, nonce, ad, ad_len, msg, msg_len);
+    
+    JSValue ret = js_new_blob_stoned_copy(js, out, out_len);
+    free(out);
+    return ret;
+}
+
+JSValue js_crypto_unlock(JSContext *js, JSValue self, int argc, JSValue *argv) {
+    if (argc < 3) return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "crypto.unlock: expected key, nonce, ciphertext, [ad]");
+    
+    uint8_t *key = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[0], 256, "crypto.unlock key");
+    if (!key) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    uint8_t *nonce = get_blob_check_bits(js, argv[1], 192, "crypto.unlock nonce");
+    if (!nonce) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    size_t cipher_bits;
+    uint8_t *cipher = get_blob_any(js, argv[2], &cipher_bits, "crypto.unlock ciphertext");
+    if (!cipher) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+    
+    size_t cipher_len = (cipher_bits + 7) / 8;
+    if (cipher_len < 16) return JS_ThrowTypeError(js, "crypto.unlock: ciphertext too short (min 16 bytes)");
+    
+    size_t msg_len = cipher_len - 16;
+    
+    size_t ad_len = 0;
+    uint8_t *ad = NULL;
+    if (argc > 3 && !JS_IsNull(argv[3])) {
+        size_t ad_bits;
+        ad = get_blob_any(js, argv[3], &ad_bits, "crypto.unlock ad");
+        if (!ad) return JS_EXCEPTION;
+        ad_len = (ad_bits + 7) / 8;
+    }
+    
+    uint8_t *out = malloc(msg_len > 0 ? msg_len : 1);
+    if (!out) return JS_ThrowOutOfMemory(js);
+    
+    // MAC is at cipher + msg_len
+    const uint8_t *mac = cipher + msg_len;
+    
+    if (crypto_aead_unlock(out, mac, key, nonce, ad, ad_len, cipher, msg_len) != 0) {
+        free(out);
+        return JS_NULL;
+    }
+    
+    JSValue ret = js_new_blob_stoned_copy(js, out, msg_len);
+    free(out);
+    return ret;
+}
+
+static const JSCFunctionListEntry js_crypto_funcs[] = {
+  JS_CFUNC_DEF("shared", 2, js_crypto_shared),
+  JS_CFUNC_DEF("blake2", 2, js_crypto_blake2),
+  JS_CFUNC_DEF("sign", 2, js_crypto_sign),
+  JS_CFUNC_DEF("verify", 3, js_crypto_verify),
+  JS_CFUNC_DEF("lock", 3, js_crypto_lock),
+  JS_CFUNC_DEF("unlock", 3, js_crypto_unlock),
+};
+
+JSValue js_core_crypto_use(JSContext *js)
+{
+  JS_FRAME(js);
+  JS_ROOT(mod, JS_NewObject(js));
+  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, mod.val, js_crypto_funcs, sizeof(js_crypto_funcs)/sizeof(js_crypto_funcs[0]));
+  JS_RETURN(mod.val);
+}

debug/debug.c

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+#include "cell.h"
+
+// TODO: Reimplement stack depth for register VM
+JSC_CCALL(debug_stack_depth, return number2js(js, 0))
+
+// TODO: Reimplement debug introspection for register VM
+JSC_CCALL(debug_build_backtrace, return JS_NewArray(js))
+JSC_CCALL(debug_closure_vars, return JS_NewObject(js))
+JSC_CCALL(debug_set_closure_var, return JS_NULL;)
+JSC_CCALL(debug_local_vars, return JS_NewObject(js))
+JSC_CCALL(debug_fn_info, return JS_NewObject(js))
+JSC_CCALL(debug_backtrace_fns, return JS_NewArray(js))
+
+static const JSCFunctionListEntry js_debug_funcs[] = {
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(debug, stack_depth, 0),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(debug, build_backtrace, 0),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(debug, closure_vars, 1),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(debug, set_closure_var, 3),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(debug, local_vars, 1),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(debug, fn_info, 1),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(debug, backtrace_fns,0),
+};
+
+JSValue js_core_debug_use(JSContext *js) {
+  JS_FRAME(js);
+  JS_ROOT(mod, JS_NewObject(js));
+  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, mod.val, js_debug_funcs, countof(js_debug_funcs));
+  JS_RETURN(mod.val);
+}

debug/js.c

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+#include "cell.h"
+
+JSC_CCALL(os_mem_limit, JS_SetMemoryLimit(JS_GetRuntime(js), js2number(js,argv[0])))
+JSC_CCALL(os_max_stacksize, JS_SetMaxStackSize(js, js2number(js,argv[0])))
+
+// TODO: Reimplement memory usage reporting for new allocator
+JSC_CCALL(os_calc_mem,
+  ret = JS_NewObject(js);
+)
+
+// TODO: Reimplement for register VM
+JSC_CCALL(js_disassemble, return JS_NewArray(js);)
+JSC_CCALL(js_fn_info, return JS_NewObject(js);)
+
+static const JSCFunctionListEntry js_js_funcs[] = {
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(os, calc_mem, 0),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(os, mem_limit, 1),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(os, max_stacksize, 1),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(js, disassemble, 1),
+  MIST_FUNC_DEF(js, fn_info, 1),
+};
+
+JSValue js_core_js_use(JSContext *js) {
+  JS_FRAME(js);
+  JS_ROOT(mod, JS_NewObject(js));
+  JS_SetPropertyFunctionList(js, mod.val, js_js_funcs, countof(js_js_funcs));
+  JS_RETURN(mod.val);
+}

diff.ce

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+// diff.ce — differential testing: run tests optimized vs unoptimized, compare results
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cell diff                - diff all test files in current package
+//   cell diff suite          - diff a specific test file (tests/suite.cm)
+//   cell diff tests/foo      - diff a specific test file by path
+var shop = use('internal/shop')
+var pkg = use('package')
+var fd = use('fd')
+var time = use('time')
+
+var _args = args == null ? [] : args
+
+var analyze = use('os').analyze
+var run_ast_fn = use('os').run_ast_fn
+var run_ast_noopt_fn = use('os').run_ast_noopt_fn
+
+if (!run_ast_noopt_fn) {
+  log.console("error: run_ast_noopt_fn not available (rebuild bootstrap)")
+  $stop()
+  return
+}
+
+// Parse arguments: diff [test_path]
+var target_test = null
+if (length(_args) > 0) {
+  target_test = _args[0]
+}
+
+function is_valid_package(dir) {
+  var _dir = dir == null ? '.' : dir
+  return fd.is_file(_dir + '/cell.toml')
+}
+
+if (!is_valid_package('.')) {
+  log.console('No cell.toml found in current directory')
+  $stop()
+  return
+}
+
+// Collect test files
+function collect_tests(specific_test) {
+  var files = pkg.list_files(null)
+  var test_files = []
+  var i = 0
+  var f = null
+  var test_name = null
+  var match_name = null
+  var match_base = null
+  for (i = 0; i < length(files); i++) {
+    f = files[i]
+    if (starts_with(f, "tests/") && ends_with(f, ".cm")) {
+      if (specific_test) {
+        test_name = text(f, 0, -3)
+        match_name = specific_test
+        if (!starts_with(match_name, 'tests/')) match_name = 'tests/' + match_name
+        match_base = ends_with(match_name, '.cm') ? text(match_name, 0, -3) : match_name
+        if (test_name != match_base) continue
+      }
+      push(test_files, f)
+    }
+  }
+  return test_files
+}
+
+// Deep comparison of two values
+function values_equal(a, b) {
+  var i = 0
+  var ka = null
+  var kb = null
+  if (a == b) return true
+  if (is_null(a) && is_null(b)) return true
+  if (is_null(a) || is_null(b)) return false
+  if (is_array(a) && is_array(b)) {
+    if (length(a) != length(b)) return false
+    i = 0
+    while (i < length(a)) {
+      if (!values_equal(a[i], b[i])) return false
+      i = i + 1
+    }
+    return true
+  }
+  if (is_object(a) && is_object(b)) {
+    ka = array(a)
+    kb = array(b)
+    if (length(ka) != length(kb)) return false
+    i = 0
+    while (i < length(ka)) {
+      if (!values_equal(a[ka[i]], b[ka[i]])) return false
+      i = i + 1
+    }
+    return true
+  }
+  return false
+}
+
+function describe(val) {
+  if (is_null(val)) return "null"
+  if (is_text(val)) return `"${val}"`
+  if (is_number(val)) return text(val)
+  if (is_logical(val)) return text(val)
+  if (is_function(val)) return "<function>"
+  if (is_array(val)) return `[array length=${text(length(val))}]`
+  if (is_object(val)) return `{record keys=${text(length(array(val)))}}`
+  return "<unknown>"
+}
+
+// Run a single test file through both paths
+function diff_test_file(file_path) {
+  var mod_path = text(file_path, 0, -3)
+  var src_path = fd.realpath('.') + '/' + file_path
+  var src = null
+  var ast = null
+  var mod_opt = null
+  var mod_noopt = null
+  var results = {file: file_path, tests: [], passed: 0, failed: 0, errors: []}
+  var use_pkg = fd.realpath('.')
+  var opt_error = null
+  var noopt_error = null
+  var keys = null
+  var i = 0
+  var k = null
+  var opt_result = null
+  var noopt_result = null
+  var opt_err = null
+  var noopt_err = null
+  var _run_one_opt = null
+  var _run_one_noopt = null
+
+  // Build env for module loading
+  var make_env = function() {
+    return stone({
+      use: function(path) {
+        return shop.use(path, use_pkg)
+      }
+    })
+  }
+
+  // Read and parse
+  var _read = function() {
+    src = text(fd.slurp(src_path))
+    ast = analyze(src, src_path)
+  } disruption {
+    push(results.errors, `failed to parse ${file_path}`)
+    return results
+  }
+  _read()
+  if (length(results.errors) > 0) return results
+
+  // Run optimized
+  var _run_opt = function() {
+    mod_opt = run_ast_fn(mod_path, ast, make_env())
+  } disruption {
+    opt_error = "disrupted"
+  }
+  _run_opt()
+
+  // Run unoptimized
+  var _run_noopt = function() {
+    mod_noopt = run_ast_noopt_fn(mod_path, ast, make_env())
+  } disruption {
+    noopt_error = "disrupted"
+  }
+  _run_noopt()
+
+  // Compare module-level behavior
+  if (opt_error != noopt_error) {
+    push(results.errors, `module load mismatch: opt=${opt_error != null ? opt_error : "ok"} noopt=${noopt_error != null ? noopt_error : "ok"}`)
+    results.failed = results.failed + 1
+    return results
+  }
+  if (opt_error != null) {
+    // Both disrupted during load — that's consistent
+    results.passed = results.passed + 1
+    push(results.tests, {name: "<module>", status: "passed"})
+    return results
+  }
+
+  // If module returns a record of functions, test each one
+  if (is_object(mod_opt) && is_object(mod_noopt)) {
+    keys = array(mod_opt)
+    while (i < length(keys)) {
+      k = keys[i]
+      if (is_function(mod_opt[k]) && is_function(mod_noopt[k])) {
+        opt_result = null
+        noopt_result = null
+        opt_err = null
+        noopt_err = null
+
+        _run_one_opt = function() {
+          opt_result = mod_opt[k]()
+        } disruption {
+          opt_err = "disrupted"
+        }
+        _run_one_opt()
+
+        _run_one_noopt = function() {
+          noopt_result = mod_noopt[k]()
+        } disruption {
+          noopt_err = "disrupted"
+        }
+        _run_one_noopt()
+
+        if (opt_err != noopt_err) {
+          push(results.tests, {name: k, status: "failed"})
+          push(results.errors, `${k}: disruption mismatch opt=${opt_err != null ? opt_err : "ok"} noopt=${noopt_err != null ? noopt_err : "ok"}`)
+          results.failed = results.failed + 1
+        } else if (!values_equal(opt_result, noopt_result)) {
+          push(results.tests, {name: k, status: "failed"})
+          push(results.errors, `${k}: result mismatch opt=${describe(opt_result)} noopt=${describe(noopt_result)}`)
+          results.failed = results.failed + 1
+        } else {
+          push(results.tests, {name: k, status: "passed"})
+          results.passed = results.passed + 1
+        }
+      }
+      i = i + 1
+    }
+  } else {
+    // Compare direct return values
+    if (!values_equal(mod_opt, mod_noopt)) {
+      push(results.tests, {name: "<return>", status: "failed"})
+      push(results.errors, `return value mismatch: opt=${describe(mod_opt)} noopt=${describe(mod_noopt)}`)
+      results.failed = results.failed + 1
+    } else {
+      push(results.tests, {name: "<return>", status: "passed"})
+      results.passed = results.passed + 1
+    }
+  }
+
+  return results
+}
+
+// Main
+var test_files = collect_tests(target_test)
+log.console(`Differential testing: ${text(length(test_files))} file(s)`)
+
+var total_passed = 0
+var total_failed = 0
+var i = 0
+var result = null
+var j = 0
+
+while (i < length(test_files)) {
+  result = diff_test_file(test_files[i])
+  log.console(`  ${result.file}: ${text(result.passed)} passed, ${text(result.failed)} failed`)
+  j = 0
+  while (j < length(result.errors)) {
+    log.console(`    MISMATCH: ${result.errors[j]}`)
+    j = j + 1
+  }
+  total_passed = total_passed + result.passed
+  total_failed = total_failed + result.failed
+  i = i + 1
+}
+
+log.console(`----------------------------------------`)
+log.console(`Diff: ${text(total_passed)} passed, ${text(total_failed)} failed, ${text(total_passed + total_failed)} total`)
+
+if (total_failed > 0) {
+  log.console(`DIFFERENTIAL FAILURES DETECTED`)
+}
+
+$stop()

docs/.pages

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-nav:
-  - index.md
-  - tutorial.md
-  - actors.md
-  - rendering.md
-  - resources.md
-  - input.md
-  - exporting.md
-  - ...
-  - Appendix A - dull: dull
-  - Appendix B - api: api
-  

docs/_index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+---
+title: "Documentation"
+description: "ƿit language documentation"
+type: "docs"
+---
+
+![image](/images/wizard.png)
+
+ƿit is an actor-based scripting language for building concurrent applications. It combines a familiar C-like syntax with the actor model of computation, optimized for low memory usage and simplicity.
+
+## Key Features
+
+- **Actor Model** — isolated memory, message passing, no shared state
+- **Immutability** — `stone()` makes values permanently frozen
+- **Prototype Inheritance** — objects without classes
+- **C Integration** — seamlessly extend with native code
+- **Cross-Platform** — deploy to desktop, web, and embedded
+
+## Quick Start
+
+```javascript
+// hello.ce - A simple actor
+print("Hello, ƿit!")
+$stop()
+```
+
+```bash
+pit hello
+```
+
+## Language
+
+- [**ƿit Language**](/docs/language/) — syntax, types, and operators
+- [**Actors and Modules**](/docs/actors/) — the execution model
+- [**Requestors**](/docs/requestors/) — asynchronous composition
+- [**Packages**](/docs/packages/) — code organization and sharing
+- [**Shop Architecture**](/docs/shop/) — module resolution, compilation, and caching
+
+## Reference
+
+- [**Built-in Functions**](/docs/functions/) — intrinsics reference
+- [text](/docs/library/text/) — text conversion and manipulation
+- [number](/docs/library/number/) — numeric conversion and operations
+- [array](/docs/library/array/) — array creation and manipulation
+- [object](/docs/library/object/) — object creation, prototypes, and serialization
+
+## Standard Library
+
+Modules loaded with `use()`:
+
+- [blob](/docs/library/blob/) — binary data
+- [time](/docs/library/time/) — time and dates
+- [math](/docs/library/math/) — trigonometry and math
+- [json](/docs/library/json/) — JSON encoding/decoding
+- [random](/docs/library/random/) — random numbers
+
+## Tools
+
+- [**Command Line**](/docs/cli/) — the `pit` tool
+- [**Testing**](/docs/testing/) — writing and running tests
+- [**Writing C Modules**](/docs/c-modules/) — native extensions
+
+## Architecture
+
+ƿit programs are organized into **packages**. Each package contains:
+
+- **Modules** (`.cm`) — return a value, cached and frozen
+- **Actors** (`.ce`) — run independently, communicate via messages
+- **C files** (`.c`) — compiled to native libraries
+
+Actors never share memory. They communicate by sending messages, which are automatically serialized. This makes concurrent programming safe and predictable.
+
+## Installation
+
+```bash
+# Clone and bootstrap
+git clone https://gitea.pockle.world/john/cell
+cd cell
+make bootstrap
+```
+
+The ƿit shop is stored at `~/.pit/`.
+
+## Development
+
+After making changes, recompile with:
+
+```bash
+make
+```
+
+Run `cell --help` to see all available CLI flags.

docs/actors.md

@@ -1,77 +1,263 @@
-# Programs: Programs and Modules
+---
+title: "Actors and Modules"
+description: "The ƿit execution model"
+weight: 20
+type: "docs"
+---
 
-Prosperon organizes your code into two broad categories: **modules** and **programs**. Modules are used to extend programs with new functionality, while programs are used to spawn actors.
+ƿit organizes code into two types of scripts: **modules** (`.cm`) and **actors** (`.ce`).
 
-## Modules
+## The Actor Model
 
-A **module** is any file that returns a single value. This return value is commonly an object, but it can be any data type (string, number, function, etc.). Once a module returns its value, Prosperon **freezes** that value, preventing accidental modification. The module is then cached so that subsequent imports of the same module don’t re-run the file—they reuse the cached result.
+ƿit is built on the actor model of computation. Each actor:
 
-### Importing a Module
+- Has its own **isolated memory** — actors never share state
+- Runs to completion each **turn** — no preemption
+- Performs its own **garbage collection**
+- Communicates only through **message passing**
 
-Use the built-in `use` function to import a module by file path (or by name if resolvable via Prosperon’s path settings). For example:
+This isolation makes concurrent programming safer and more predictable.
 
-```
-var myModule = use('scripts/modules/myModule')
+## Modules (.cm)
+
+A module is a script that **returns a value**. The returned value is cached and frozen (made stone).
+
+```javascript
+// math_utils.cm
+var math = use('math/radians')
+
+var distance = function(x1, y1, x2, y2) {
+  var dx = x2 - x1
+  var dy = y2 - y1
+  return math.sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy)
+}
+
+var midpoint = function(x1, y1, x2, y2) {
+  return {
+    x: (x1 + x2) / 2,
+    y: (y1 + y2) / 2
+  }
+}
+
+return {
+  distance: distance,
+  midpoint: midpoint
+}
 ```
 
-`use('module')` returns the **exact** same object if called multiple times, since modules are cached and not re-run.
+**Key properties:**
 
-Dull based modules are resolved by searching for them from the `prosperon.PATH` array. Engine modules are stored under `scripts/modules`, which is already added to the PATH for you.
+- **Must return a value** — it's an error not to
+- **Executed once per actor** — subsequent `use()` calls return the cached value
+- **Return value is stone** — immutable, safe to share
+- Modules can import other modules with `use()`
 
-Prosperon can also load C based modules. If two modules have the same path resolution, the C based library will be imported.
+### Using Modules
 
-## Programs
+```javascript
+var utils = use('math_utils')
+var d = utils.distance(0, 0, 3, 4)  // 5
+```
 
-An **program** is a file that **does not** return a value. Instead, the file’s contents run top to bottom as soon as the program is spawned. Programs are your game’s “live” scripts: each program can hold its own state and logic, spawn sub-programs, schedule timed tasks, and eventually **kill** itself (or be killed) when it’s done.
+## Actors (.ce)
 
-### Program Intrinsic Functions
+An actor is a script that **does not return a value**. It runs as an independent unit of execution.
 
-Certain functions are intrinsic to the program and cannot be overridden. They’re assigned to each new program instance at spawn time:
+```javascript
+// worker.ce
+print("Worker started")
 
-1. **`spawn(script, config, callback)`**  
-   Creates (spawns) a new program from another script file.  
-   - **`script`**: Path to the program script (a file containing statements, not returning anything).  
-   - **`config`**: Optional object of extra properties to assign to the new program.  
-   - **`callback(underling, info)`**: Optional function invoked right after the program is instantiated but before it fully initializes.
+$receiver(function(msg, reply) {
+  print("Received:", msg)
+  // Process message...
+})
+```
 
-   The newly spawned program:
-   - Receives a reference to its parent (the `overling`) and can store child programs (the `underlings`).
-   - Automatically calls `awake()` if that function is defined, after basic setup completes.
-   - Registers any recognized event handlers (like `update`, `draw`, etc.) if they exist.
+**Key properties:**
 
-2. **`kill()`**  
-   Destroys the program, all of its timers, and recursively kills any underling (child) programs. If the program has a parent, it is removed from the parent’s `underlings` set.  
+- **Must not return a value** — it's an error to return
+- Has access to **actor intrinsics** (functions starting with `$`)
+- Runs until explicitly stopped or crashes
 
-3. **`delay(fn, seconds)`**  
-   Runs the given function `fn` after `seconds`. This is implemented under the hood with a timer that automatically clears itself once it fires.  
-   - **Example**:  
-     ```js
-     this.delay(_ => {
-       log.console("3 seconds later!")
-     }, 3)
-     ```
+## Actor Intrinsics
 
-4. **`clear()`**  
-   Recursively kills all child programs, clearing your immediate `underlings` set. This is not called automatically. You can use it to manually clean up all children without necessarily killing the program itself.
+Actors have access to special functions prefixed with `$`:
 
-### The program Lifecycle
+### $me
 
-Specific hooks can be set on a program when it is initialized.
+Reference to the current actor.
 
-- **Awake**: If the new program defines `awake()`, Prosperon calls it after the script finishes its top-level execution. This is a common place to do initialization.
-- **Garbage**: When the program is killed, if it has a `garbage()` function, Prosperon calls it before final removal.  
-- **Then**: If the program has a `then()` function, Prosperon calls it at the very end of the kill process, allowing any final statements after your `garbage()` logic completes.
-- **Registration**: In addition, if the object has **any** function named the same thing as a hook created with **prosperon.on**, that function will be registered with it after initialization.
+```javascript
+print($me)  // actor reference
+```
 
-### Overlings and Underlings
+### $stop()
 
-Programs have access to its creator and other programs created underneath it, termed its overling and underlings.
+Stop the current actor.
 
-- **`this.overling`** is the parent program that spawned the current one.
-- **`this.underlings`** is a set of child programs that the current program has spawned.  
+```javascript
+$stop()
+```
 
-Killing a parent automatically kills all of its underlings, which in turn can kill their own underlings, and so on.
+### $send(actor, message, callback)
 
-## Program Documentation
+Send a message to another actor.
 
-Prosperon includes a module called `doc.js` which helps generate documentation for your modules and programs. Any function and value can be assigned a docstring, and prosperon will then be able to generate documentation for it via doc.js. Look under the module API for more info.
+```javascript
+$send(other_actor, {type: "ping", data: 42}, function(reply) {
+  print("Got reply:", reply)
+})
+```
+
+Messages are automatically **splatted** — flattened to plain data without prototypes.
+
+### $start(callback, program)
+
+Start a new actor from a script.
+
+```javascript
+$start(function(new_actor) {
+  print("Started:", new_actor)
+}, "worker")
+```
+
+### $delay(callback, seconds)
+
+Schedule a callback after a delay.
+
+```javascript
+$delay(function() {
+  print("5 seconds later")
+}, 5)
+```
+
+### $clock(callback)
+
+Get called every frame/tick.
+
+```javascript
+$clock(function(dt) {
+  // Called each tick with delta time
+})
+```
+
+### $receiver(callback)
+
+Set up a message receiver.
+
+```javascript
+$receiver(function(message, reply) {
+  // Handle incoming message
+  reply({status: "ok"})
+})
+```
+
+### $portal(callback, port)
+
+Open a network port.
+
+```javascript
+$portal(function(connection) {
+  // Handle new connection
+}, 8080)
+```
+
+### $contact(callback, record)
+
+Connect to a remote address.
+
+```javascript
+$contact(function(connection) {
+  // Connected
+}, {host: "example.com", port: 80})
+```
+
+### $time_limit(requestor, seconds)
+
+Wrap a requestor with a timeout. See [Requestors](/docs/requestors/) for details.
+
+```javascript
+$time_limit(my_requestor, 10)  // 10 second timeout
+```
+
+### $couple(actor)
+
+Couple the current actor to another actor. When the coupled actor dies, the current actor also dies. Coupling is automatic between an actor and its overling (parent).
+
+```javascript
+$couple(other_actor)
+```
+
+### $unneeded(callback, seconds)
+
+Schedule the actor for removal after a specified time.
+
+```javascript
+$unneeded(function() {
+  // cleanup before removal
+}, 30)
+```
+
+### $connection(callback, actor, config)
+
+Get information about the connection to another actor, such as latency, bandwidth, and activity.
+
+```javascript
+$connection(function(info) {
+  print(info.latency)
+}, other_actor, {})
+```
+
+## Module Resolution
+
+When you call `use('name')`, ƿit searches:
+
+1. **Current package** — files relative to package root
+2. **Dependencies** — packages declared in `pit.toml`
+3. **Core** — built-in ƿit modules
+
+```javascript
+// From within package 'myapp':
+use('utils')           // myapp/utils.cm
+use('helper/math')     // myapp/helper/math.cm
+use('json')            // core json module
+use('otherlib/foo')    // dependency 'otherlib', file foo.cm
+```
+
+Files in the `internal/` directory are private to the package.
+
+## Example: Simple Actor System
+
+```javascript
+// main.ce - Entry point
+var config = use('config')
+
+print("Starting application...")
+
+$start(function(worker) {
+  $send(worker, {task: "process", data: [1, 2, 3]})
+}, "worker")
+
+$delay(function() {
+  print("Shutting down")
+  $stop()
+}, 10)
+```
+
+```javascript
+// worker.ce - Worker actor
+$receiver(function(msg, reply) {
+  if (msg.task == "process") {
+    var result = array(msg.data, x => x * 2)
+    reply({result: result})
+  }
+})
+```
+
+```javascript
+// config.cm - Shared configuration
+return {
+  debug: true,
+  timeout: 30
+}
+```

docs/api/actor.md

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# actor
-
-### toString() <sub>function</sub>
-
-### spawn(script, config, callback) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### clear() <sub>function</sub>
-
-### kill() <sub>function</sub>
-
-### delay(fn, seconds) <sub>function</sub>

docs/api/console.md

@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# console
-
-The console object provides various logging, debugging, and output methods.
-
-### print() <sub>function</sub>
-
-### spam(msg) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Output a spam-level message for very verbose logging.
-
-### debug(msg) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Output a debug-level message.
-
-### info(msg) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Output info level message.
-
-### warn(msg) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Output warn level message.
-
-### log(msg) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Output directly to in game console.
-
-### error(e) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Output error level message, and print stacktrace.
-
-### panic(e) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Output a panic-level message and exit the program.
-
-### assert(op, str = `assertion failed [value '${op}']`) <sub>function</sub>
-
-If the condition is false, print an error and panic.

docs/api/index.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# Appendix B - api
-
-This is a complete list of accessible functions and parameters that are built into Prosperon. For the most part, developers will concern themselves with the modules, all of which can be imported with `use`.
-
-Types document particular javascript objects with a specific object in their prototype chain, which can allow access to an underlying C data structure. A lot of these are used only internally by Prosperon, but brave developers can pick around in the module internals to see how they're used and do their own thing if they want!

docs/api/modules/actor.md

@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-# actor
-
-
-A set of utilities for iterating over a hierarchy of actor-like objects, as well
-as managing tag-based lookups. Objects are assumed to have a "objects" property,
-pointing to children or sub-objects, forming a tree.
-
-
-### all_objects(fn, startobj) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Iterate over each object (and its sub-objects) in the hierarchy, calling fn for each one.
-
-
-**fn**: A callback function that receives each object. If it returns a truthy value, iteration stops and that value is returned.
-
-**startobj**: The root object at which iteration begins, default is the global "world".
-
-
-**Returns**: The first truthy value returned by fn, or undefined if none.
-
-
-### find_object(fn, startobj) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Intended to find a matching object within the hierarchy.
-
-
-**fn**: A callback or criteria to locate a particular object.
-
-**startobj**: The root object at which search begins, default "world".
-
-
-**Returns**: Not yet implemented.
-
-
-### tag_add(tag, obj) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Associate the given object with the specified tag. Creates a new tag set if it does not exist.
-
-
-**tag**: A string tag to associate with the object.
-
-**obj**: The object to add under this tag.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### tag_rm(tag, obj) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Remove the given object from the specified tag’s set, if it exists.
-
-
-**tag**: The tag to remove the object from.
-
-**obj**: The object to remove from the tag set.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### tag_clear_guid(obj) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Remove the object from all tag sets.
-
-
-**obj**: The object whose tags should be cleared.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### objects_with_tag(tag) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Retrieve all objects currently tagged with the specified tag.
-
-
-**tag**: A string tag to look up.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of objects associated with the given tag.
-

docs/api/modules/camera.md

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-# camera
-
-### list() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an array of available camera device IDs.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of camera IDs, or undefined if no cameras are available.
-
-
-### open(id) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Open a camera device with the given ID.
-
-
-
-**id**: The camera ID to open.
-
-
-**Returns**: A camera object on success, or throws an error if the camera cannot be opened.
-
-
-### name(id) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the name of the camera with the given ID.
-
-
-
-**id**: The camera ID to query.
-
-
-**Returns**: A string with the camera's name, or throws an error if the name cannot be retrieved.
-
-
-### position(id) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the physical position of the camera with the given ID.
-
-
-
-**id**: The camera ID to query.
-
-
-**Returns**: A string indicating the camera position ("unknown", "front", or "back").
-

docs/api/modules/cmd.md

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-# cmd
-
-### length <sub>number</sub>
-
-### name <sub>string</sub>
-
-### prototype <sub>object</sub>

docs/api/modules/color.md

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-# color
-
-### Color <sub>object</sub>
-
-### esc <sub>object</sub>
-
-### ColorMap <sub>object</sub>

docs/api/modules/debug.md

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-# debug
-
-### stack_depth() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the current stack depth.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: A number representing the stack depth.
-
-
-### build_backtrace() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Build and return a backtrace of the current call stack.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: An object representing the call stack backtrace.
-
-
-### closure_vars(fn) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the closure variables for a given function.
-
-
-
-**fn**: The function object to inspect.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object containing the closure variables.
-
-
-### local_vars(depth) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the local variables for a specific stack frame.
-
-
-
-**depth**: The stack frame depth to inspect.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object containing the local variables at the specified depth.
-
-
-### fn_info(fn) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return metadata about a given function.
-
-
-
-**fn**: The function object to inspect.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object with metadata about the function.
-
-
-### backtrace_fns() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an array of functions in the current backtrace.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of function objects from the call stack.
-
-
-### dump_obj(obj) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a string representation of a given object.
-
-
-
-**obj**: The object to dump.
-
-
-**Returns**: A string describing the object's contents.
-

docs/api/modules/dmon.md

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-# dmon
-
-### watch() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Start watching the root directory, recursively.
-
-This function begins monitoring the specified directory and its subdirectories recursively for events such as file creation, deletion, modification, or movement. Events are queued and can be retrieved by calling poll.
-
-:throws: An error if dmon is already watching.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### unwatch() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Stop watching the currently monitored directory.
-
-This function halts filesystem monitoring for the directory previously set by watch. It clears the watch state, allowing a new watch to be started.
-
-:throws: An error if no directory is currently being watched.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### poll(callback) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Retrieve and process queued filesystem events.
-
-This function dequeues all pending filesystem events and invokes the provided callback for each one. The callback receives an event object with properties: 'action' (string: "create", "delete", "modify", or "move"), 'root' (string: watched directory), 'file' (string: affected file path), and 'old' (string: previous file path for move events, empty if not applicable).
-
-
-
-**callback**: A function to call for each event, receiving an event object as its argument.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-

docs/api/modules/doc.md

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-# doc
-
-
-Provides a consistent way to create documentation for prosperon elements. Objects are documented by adding docstrings directly to object-like things (functions, objects, ...), or to an object's own "doc object".
-
-Docstrings are set to the symbol `cell.DOC`
-
-```js
-// Suppose we have a module that returns a function
-function greet(name) { log.console("Hello, " + name) }
-
-// We can attach a docstring
-greet.doc = `
-Greets the user by name.
-`
-
-// A single function is a valid return!
-return greet
-```
-
-```js
-// Another way is to add a docstring object to an object
-var greet = {
-hello() { log.console('hello!') }
-}
-
-greet[cell.DOC] = {}
-greet[cell.DOC][cell.DOC] = 'An object full of different greeter functions'
-greet[cell.DOC].hello = 'A greeter that says, "hello!"'
-```
-
-
-**name**: The name of the person to greet.
-
-
-### writeDocFile(obj, title) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a markdown string for a given obj, with an optional title.

docs/api/modules/draw2d.md

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-# draw2d
-
-
-A collection of 2D drawing functions that operate in screen space. Provides primitives
-for lines, rectangles, text, sprite drawing, etc.
-
-
-### point(pos, size, color) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**pos**: A 2D position ([x, y]) where the point should be drawn.
-
-**size**: The size of the point (not currently affecting rendering).
-
-**color**: The color of the point, defaults to Color.blue.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### line(points, color, thickness, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**points**: An array of 2D positions representing the line vertices.
-
-**color**: The color of the line, default Color.white.
-
-**thickness**: The line thickness, default 1.
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### cross(pos, size, color, thickness, pipe) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**pos**: The center of the cross as a 2D position ([x, y]).
-
-**size**: Half the size of each cross arm.
-
-**color**: The color of the cross, default Color.red.
-
-**thickness**: The thickness of each line, default 1.
-
-**pipe**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### arrow(start, end, color, wingspan, wingangle, pipe) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**start**: The start position of the arrow ([x, y]).
-
-**end**: The end (tip) position of the arrow ([x, y]).
-
-**color**: The color, default Color.red.
-
-**wingspan**: The length of each arrowhead 'wing', default 4.
-
-**wingangle**: Wing rotation in degrees, default 10.
-
-**pipe**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### rectangle(rect, color, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**rect**: A rectangle object with {x, y, width, height}.
-
-**color**: The fill color, default Color.white.
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### tile(image, rect, color, tile, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-:raises Error: If no image is provided.
-
-
-**image**: An image object or string path to a texture.
-
-**rect**: A rectangle specifying draw location/size ({x, y, width, height}).
-
-**color**: The color tint, default Color.white.
-
-**tile**: A tiling definition ({repeat_x, repeat_y}), default tile_def.
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### slice9(image, rect, slice, color, info, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-:raises Error: If no image is provided.
-
-
-**image**: An image object or string path to a texture.
-
-**rect**: A rectangle specifying draw location/size, default [0, 0].
-
-**slice**: The pixel inset or spacing for the 9-slice (number or object).
-
-**color**: The color tint, default Color.white.
-
-**info**: A slice9 info object controlling tiling of edges/corners.
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### image(image, rect, rotation, color, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-:raises Error: If no image is provided.
-
-
-**image**: An image object or string path to a texture.
-
-**rect**: A rectangle specifying draw location/size, default [0,0]; width/height default to image size.
-
-**rotation**: Rotation in degrees (not currently used).
-
-**color**: The color tint, default none.
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: A sprite object that was created for this draw call.
-
-
-### images(image, rects, config) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-:raises Error: If no image is provided.
-
-
-**image**: An image object or string path to a texture.
-
-**rects**: An array of rectangle objects ({x, y, width, height}) to draw.
-
-**config**: (Unused) Additional config data if needed.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of sprite objects created and queued for rendering.
-
-
-### sprites(sprites, sort, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**sprites**: An array of sprite objects to draw.
-
-**sort**: Sorting mode or order, default 0.
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### circle(pos, radius, color, inner_radius, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**pos**: Center of the circle ([x, y]).
-
-**radius**: The circle radius.
-
-**color**: The fill color of the circle, default none.
-
-**inner_radius**: (Unused) Possibly ring thickness, default 1.
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### text(text, rect, font, size, color, wrap, pipeline) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**text**: The string to draw.
-
-**rect**: A rectangle specifying draw position (and possibly wrapping area).
-
-**font**: A font object or string path, default sysfont.
-
-**size**: (Unused) Possibly intended for scaling the font size.
-
-**color**: The text color, default Color.white.
-
-**wrap**: Pixel width for text wrapping, default 0 (no wrap).
-
-**pipeline**: (Optional) A pipeline or rendering state object.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-

docs/api/modules/enet.md

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-# enet
-
-### initialize() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Initialize the ENet library. Must be called before using any ENet functionality.
-Throws an error if initialization fails.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### deinitialize() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Deinitialize the ENet library, cleaning up all resources. Call this when you no longer
-need any ENet functionality.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### create_host(address) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Create an ENet host for either a client-like unbound host or a server bound to a specific
-address and port:
-
-- If no argument is provided, creates an unbound "client-like" host with default settings
-(maximum 32 peers, 2 channels, unlimited bandwidth).
-- If you pass an "ip:port" string (e.g. "127.0.0.1:7777"), it creates a server bound to
-that address. The server supports up to 32 peers, 2 channels, and unlimited bandwidth.
-
-Throws an error if host creation fails for any reason.
-
-omit to create an unbound client-like host.
-
-
-**address**: (optional) A string in 'ip:port' format to bind the host (server), or
-
-
-**Returns**: An ENetHost object.
-

docs/api/modules/event.md

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-# event
-
-### push_event(event) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Push a custom user event into SDL's queue, passing a callback function.
-
-
-
-**event**: A function to call when this event is consumed.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### engine_input(callback) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Poll all system events (keyboard, mouse, etc.) and call the given function with each event object.
-
-
-
-**callback**: A function that executes on each event consumed from the poll.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-

docs/api/modules/geometry.md

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-# geometry
-
-
-A collection of geometry-related functions for circles, spheres, boxes, polygons,
-and rectangle utilities. Some functionality is implemented in C and exposed here.
-
-
-### rect_intersection(a, b) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Return the intersection of two rectangles. The result may be empty if no intersection.
-
-
-**a**: The first rectangle as {x, y, w, h}.
-
-**b**: The second rectangle as {x, y, w, h}.
-
-
-**Returns**: A rectangle that is the intersection of the two. May have zero width/height if no overlap.
-
-
-### rect_intersects(a, b) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**a**: Rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-**b**: Rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-
-**Returns**: A boolean indicating whether the two rectangles overlap.
-
-
-### rect_expand(a, b) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Merge or combine two rectangles, returning their bounding rectangle.
-
-
-**a**: Rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-**b**: Rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-
-**Returns**: A new rectangle that covers the bounds of both input rectangles.
-
-
-### rect_inside(inner, outer) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**inner**: A rectangle to test.
-
-**outer**: A rectangle that may contain 'inner'.
-
-
-**Returns**: True if 'inner' is completely inside 'outer', otherwise false.
-
-
-### rect_random(rect) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**rect**: A rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-
-**Returns**: A random point within the rectangle (uniform distribution).
-
-
-### cwh2rect(center, wh) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Helper: convert a center point and width/height vector to a rect object.
-
-
-**center**: A 2D point [cx, cy].
-
-**wh**: A 2D size [width, height].
-
-
-**Returns**: A rectangle {x, y, w, h} with x,y set to center and w,h set to the given size.
-
-
-### rect_point_inside(rect, point) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**rect**: A rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-**point**: A 2D point [px, py].
-
-
-**Returns**: True if the point lies inside the rectangle, otherwise false.
-
-
-### rect_pos(rect) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**rect**: A rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-
-**Returns**: A 2D vector [x,y] giving the rectangle's position.
-
-
-### rect_move(rect, offset) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**rect**: A rectangle {x,y,w,h}.
-
-**offset**: A 2D vector to add to the rectangle's position.
-
-
-**Returns**: A new rectangle with updated x,y offset.
-
-
-### box(w, h) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Construct a box centered at the origin with the given width and height. This overrides the box object above.
-
-
-**w**: The width of the box.
-
-**h**: The height of the box.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of four 2D points representing the corners of a rectangle centered at [0,0].
-
-
-### sphere <sub>object</sub>
-
-
-Sphere-related geometry functions:
-- volume(r): Return the volume of a sphere with radius r.
-- random(r, theta, phi): Return a random point on or inside a sphere.
-
-
-### circle <sub>object</sub>
-
-
-Circle-related geometry functions:
-- area(r): Return the area of a circle with radius r.
-- random(r, theta): Return a random 2D point on a circle; uses sphere.random internally and extracts x,z.
-
-
-### ngon(radius, n) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Generates a regular n-gon by calling geometry.arc with full 360 degrees.
-
-
-**radius**: The radius of the n-gon from center to each vertex.
-
-**n**: Number of sides/vertices.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of 2D points forming a regular n-gon.
-
-
-### arc(radius, angle, n, start) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Generate an arc (or partial circle) of n points, each angle spread equally over 'angle' degrees from 'start'.
-
-
-**radius**: The distance from center to the arc points.
-
-**angle**: The total angle (in degrees) over which points are generated, capped at 360.
-
-**n**: Number of segments (if <=1, empty array is returned).
-
-**start**: Starting angle (in degrees), default 0.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of 2D points along the arc.
-
-
-### corners2points(ll, ur) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Similar to box.points, but calculates differently.
-
-
-**ll**: Lower-left 2D coordinate.
-
-**ur**: Upper-right 2D coordinate (relative offset in x,y).
-
-
-**Returns**: A four-point array of corners [ll, lower-right, upper-right, upper-left].
-
-
-### sortpointsccw(points) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Sort an array of points in CCW order based on their angles from the centroid.
-
-
-**points**: An array of 2D points.
-
-
-**Returns**: A new array of the same points, sorted counterclockwise around their centroid.
-
-
-### points2cm(points) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**points**: An array of 2D points.
-
-
-**Returns**: The centroid (average x,y) of the given points.
-

docs/api/modules/graphics.md

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-# graphics
-
-
-Provides functionality for loading and managing images, fonts, textures, and sprite meshes.
-Includes both JavaScript and C-implemented routines for creating geometry buffers, performing
-rectangle packing, etc.
-
-
-### make_sprite_mesh(sprites) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-:param oldMesh (optional): An existing mesh object to reuse/resize if possible.
-Given an array of sprites, build a single geometry mesh for rendering them.
-
-
-**sprites**: An array of sprite objects, each containing .rect (or transform), .src (UV region), .color, etc.
-
-
-**Returns**: A GPU mesh object with pos, uv, color, and indices buffers for all sprites.
-
-
-### make_sprite_queue(sprites, camera, pipeline, sort) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Given an array of sprites, optionally sort them, then build a queue of pipeline commands.
-Each group with a shared image becomes one command.
-
-
-**sprites**: An array of sprite objects.
-
-**camera**: (unused in the C code example) Typically a camera or transform for sorting?
-
-**pipeline**: A pipeline object for rendering.
-
-**sort**: An integer or boolean for whether to sort sprites; if truthy, sorts by layer & texture.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of pipeline commands: geometry with mesh references, grouped by image.
-
-
-### make_text_buffer(text, rect, angle, color, wrap, font) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Generate a GPU buffer mesh of text quads for rendering with a font, etc.
-
-
-**text**: The string to render.
-
-**rect**: A rectangle specifying position and possibly wrapping.
-
-**angle**: Rotation angle (unused or optional).
-
-**color**: A color for the text (could be a vec4).
-
-**wrap**: The width in pixels to wrap text, or 0 for no wrap.
-
-**font**: A font object created by graphics.make_font or graphics.get_font.
-
-
-**Returns**: A geometry buffer mesh (pos, uv, color, indices) for rendering text.
-
-
-### rectpack(width, height, sizes) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Perform a rectangle packing using the stbrp library. Return positions for each rect.
-
-
-**width**: The width of the area to pack into.
-
-**height**: The height of the area to pack into.
-
-**sizes**: An array of [w,h] pairs for the rectangles to pack.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of [x,y] coordinates placing each rect, or null if they don't fit.
-
-
-### make_rtree() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Create a new R-Tree for geometry queries.
-
-
-**Returns**: An R-Tree object for quickly querying many rectangles or sprite bounds.
-
-
-### make_texture(data) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Convert raw image bytes into an SDL_Surface object.
-
-
-**data**: Raw image bytes (PNG, JPG, etc.) as an ArrayBuffer.
-
-
-**Returns**: An SDL_Surface object representing the decoded image in RAM, for use with GPU or software rendering.
-
-
-### make_gif(data) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Load a GIF, returning its frames. If it's a single-frame GIF, the result may have .surface only.
-
-
-**data**: An ArrayBuffer containing GIF data.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object with frames[], each frame having its own .surface. Some also have a .texture for GPU use.
-
-
-### make_aseprite(data) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Load an Aseprite/ASE file from an array of bytes, returning frames or animations.
-
-
-**data**: An ArrayBuffer containing Aseprite (ASE) file data.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object containing frames or animations, each with .surface. May also have top-level .surface for a single-layer case.
-
-
-### cull_sprites(sprites, camera) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Filter an array of sprites to only those visible in the provided camera’s view.
-
-
-**sprites**: An array of sprite objects (each has rect or transform).
-
-**camera**: A camera or bounding rectangle defining the view area.
-
-
-**Returns**: A new array of sprites that are visible in the camera's view.
-
-
-### rects_to_sprites(rects, image) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Convert an array of rect coords into sprite objects referencing a single image.
-
-
-**rects**: An array of rect coords or objects.
-
-**image**: An image object (with .texture).
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of sprite objects referencing the 'image' and each rect for UV or position.
-
-
-### make_surface(dimensions) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Create a blank surface in RAM.
-
-
-**dimensions**: The size object {width, height}, or an array [w,h].
-
-
-**Returns**: A blank RGBA surface with the given dimensions, typically for software rendering or icons.
-
-
-### make_cursor(opts) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**opts**: An object with {surface, hotx, hoty} or similar.
-
-
-**Returns**: An SDL_Cursor object referencing the given surface for a custom mouse cursor.
-
-
-### make_font(data, size) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Load a font from TTF/OTF data at the given size.
-
-
-**data**: TTF/OTF file data as an ArrayBuffer.
-
-**size**: Pixel size for rendering glyphs.
-
-
-**Returns**: A font object with surface, texture, and glyph data, for text rendering with make_text_buffer.
-
-
-### make_sprite() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Create a new sprite object, storing default properties.
-
-
-**Returns**: A new sprite object, which typically has .rect, .color, .layer, .image, etc.
-
-
-### make_line_prim(points, thickness, startCap, endCap, color) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Build a GPU mesh representing a thick polyline from an array of points, using parsl or a similar library under the hood.
-
-
-**points**: An array of [x,y] points forming the line.
-
-**thickness**: The thickness (width) of the polyline.
-
-**startCap**: (Unused) Possibly the type of cap for the start.
-
-**endCap**: (Unused) Possibly the type of cap for the end.
-
-**color**: A color to apply to the line.
-
-
-**Returns**: A geometry mesh object suitable for rendering the line via a pipeline command.
-
-
-### is_image(obj) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-
-**obj**: An object to check.
-
-
-**Returns**: True if 'obj' has a .texture and a .rect property, indicating it's an image object.
-
-
-### texture(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Load or retrieve a cached image, converting it into a GPU texture. If 'path' is already an object, it’s returned directly.
-
-
-**path**: A string path to an image file or an already-loaded image object.
-
-
-**Returns**: An image object with {surface, texture, frames?, etc.} depending on the format.
-
-
-### tex_hotreload(file) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Reload the image for the given file, updating the cached copy in memory and GPU.
-
-
-**file**: The file path that was changed on disk.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### get_font(path, size) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Load a font from file if not cached, or retrieve from cache if already loaded.
-
-
-**path**: A string path to a font file, optionally with ".size" appended.
-
-**size**: Pixel size of the font, if not included in 'path'.
-
-
-**Returns**: A font object with .surface and .texture for rendering text.
-
-
-### queue_sprite_mesh(queue) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Builds a single geometry mesh for all sprite-type commands in the queue, storing first_index/num_indices
-so they can be rendered in one draw call.
-
-
-**queue**: An array of draw commands, some of which are {type:'sprite'} objects.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of references to GPU buffers [pos,uv,color,indices].
-

docs/api/modules/input.md

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-# input
-
-### mouse_show(show) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Show or hide the mouse cursor. Pass true to show, false to hide.
-
-
-
-**show**: Boolean. True to show, false to hide.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### mouse_lock(lock) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Capture or release the mouse, confining it within the window if locked.
-
-
-
-**lock**: Boolean. True to lock, false to unlock.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### cursor_set(cursor) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Set the given cursor (created by os.make_cursor) as the active mouse cursor.
-
-
-
-**cursor**: The cursor to set.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### keyname(keycode) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Given a numeric keycode, return the corresponding key name (e.g., from SDL).
-
-
-
-**keycode**: A numeric SDL keycode.
-
-
-**Returns**: A string with the key name.
-
-
-### keymod() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an object describing the current modifier keys, e.g. {shift:true, ctrl:true}.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: An object with boolean fields for each modifier key.
-
-
-### mousestate() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an object describing the current mouse state, including x,y coordinates
-and booleans for pressed buttons (left, middle, right, x1, x2).
-
-
-
-**Returns**: Object { x, y, left, middle, right, x1, x2 }
-

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@@ -1,243 +0,0 @@
-# io
-
-### rm(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Remove the file or empty directory at the given path.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file or empty directory to remove. Must be empty if a directory.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### mkdir(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Create a directory at the given path.
-
-
-
-**path**: The directory path to create.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### stat(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an object describing file metadata for the given path. The object includes
-filesize, modtime, createtime, and accesstime. Throw an error if the path does not exist.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file or directory to retrieve metadata for.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object with metadata (filesize, modtime, createtime, accesstime).
-
-
-### globfs(patterns) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an array of files that do not match any of the provided glob patterns. It
-recursively enumerates the filesystem within PHYSFS. Each pattern is treated as an
-"ignore" rule, similar to .gitignore usage.
-
-
-
-**patterns**: An array of glob patterns to ignore. Any file matching one of these is skipped.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of matching file paths.
-
-
-### match(pattern, string) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return boolean indicating whether the given wildcard pattern matches the provided
-string. Dots must match dots. Case is not ignored.
-
-Patterns can incorporate:
-'?'  - Matches exactly one character (except leading dots or slashes).
-'*'  - Matches zero or more characters (excluding path separators).
-'**' - Matches zero or more characters, including path separators.
-'[abc]' - A bracket expression; matches any single character from the set. Ranges like [a-z], [0-9] also work.
-'[[:alpha:]]' - POSIX character classes can be used inside brackets.
-'\' - Backslash escapes the next character.
-'!'  - If placed immediately inside brackets (like [!abc]), it negates the set.
-
-
-
-**pattern**: The wildcard pattern to compare.
-
-**string**: The string to test against the wildcard pattern.
-
-
-**Returns**: True if matched, otherwise false.
-
-
-### exists(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a boolean indicating whether the file or directory at the given path exists.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file or directory path to check.
-
-
-**Returns**: True if the path exists, otherwise false.
-
-
-### mount(archiveOrDir, mountPoint) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Mount a directory or archive at the specified mount point. An undefined mount
-point mounts to '/'. Throw on error.
-
-
-
-**archiveOrDir**: The directory or archive to mount.
-
-**mountPoint**: The path at which to mount. If omitted or undefined, '/' is used.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### unmount(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Unmount a previously mounted directory or archive. Throw on error.
-
-
-
-**path**: The directory or archive mount point to unmount.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### slurp(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Read the entire file at the given path as a string. Throw on error.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file path to read from.
-
-
-**Returns**: A string with the file’s contents.
-
-
-### slurpbytes(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Read the entire file at the given path as a raw ArrayBuffer. Throw on error.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file path to read from.
-
-
-**Returns**: An ArrayBuffer containing the file’s raw bytes.
-
-
-### slurpwrite(data, path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Write data (string or ArrayBuffer) to the given file path. Overwrite if it exists.
-Throw on error.
-
-
-
-**data**: The data to write (string or ArrayBuffer).
-
-**path**: The file path to write to.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### writepath(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Set the write directory. Subsequent writes will go here by default. Throw on error.
-
-
-
-**path**: The directory path to set as writable.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### basedir() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the application's base directory (where the executable is located).
-
-
-
-**Returns**: A string with the base directory path.
-
-
-### prefdir(org, app) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Get the user-and-app-specific path where files can be written.
-
-
-
-**org**: The name of your organization.
-
-**app**: The name of your application.
-
-
-**Returns**: A string with the user's directory path.
-
-
-### realdir(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the actual, real directory (on the host filesystem) that contains the given
-file path. Return undefined if not found.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file path whose real directory is requested.
-
-
-**Returns**: A string with the real directory path, or undefined.
-
-
-### open(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Open a file for writing, returning a file object that can be used for further
-operations. Throw on error.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file path to open for writing.
-
-
-**Returns**: A file object for subsequent write operations.
-
-
-### searchpath() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an array of all directories in the current paths.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of directory paths in the search path.
-
-
-### enumerate(path, recurse) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an array of files within the given directory, optionally recursing into
-subdirectories.
-
-
-
-**path**: The directory to list.
-
-**recurse**: Whether to recursively include subdirectories (true or false).
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of file (and directory) paths found.
-
-
-### mount_core() <sub>function</sub>
-
-### is_directory() <sub>function</sub>

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-# js
-
-
-Provides functions for introspecting and configuring the QuickJS runtime engine.
-Includes debug info, memory usage, GC controls, code evaluation, etc.
-
-
-### cycle_hook(callback) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-or undefined to remove the callback.
-
-Register or remove a hook function that QuickJS calls once per execution cycle. If the callback
-is set, it receives a single argument (an optional object/value describing the cycle). If callback
-is undefined, the hook is removed.
-
-
-**callback**: A function to call each time QuickJS completes a "cycle" (internal VM loop),
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### dump_shapes() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Use this for internal debugging of object shapes.
-
-
-**Returns**: A debug string describing the internal shape hierarchy used by QuickJS.
-
-
-### dump_atoms() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-known by QuickJS. Helpful for diagnosing memory usage or potential key collisions.
-
-
-**Returns**: A debug string listing all currently registered atoms (internal property keys/symbols)
-
-
-### dump_class() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Shows how many objects of each class exist, useful for advanced memory or performance profiling.
-
-
-**Returns**: A debug string describing the distribution of JS object classes in the QuickJS runtime.
-
-
-### dump_objects() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-useful for debugging memory leaks or object lifetimes.
-
-
-**Returns**: A debug string listing certain internal QuickJS objects and their references,
-
-
-### dump_type_overheads() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Displays memory usage breakdown for different internal object types.
-
-
-**Returns**: A debug string describing the overheads for various JS object types in QuickJS.
-
-
-### stack_info() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Internal debugging utility to examine call stack details.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object or string describing the runtime's current stack usage and capacity.
-
-
-### calc_mem(value) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-Compute the approximate size of a single JS value in memory. This is a best-effort estimate.
-
-
-**value**: A JavaScript value to analyze.
-
-
-**Returns**: Approximate memory usage (in bytes) of that single value.
-
-
-### mem() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-including total allocated bytes, object counts, and more.
-
-Retrieve an overview of the runtime’s memory usage.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object containing a comprehensive snapshot of memory usage for the current QuickJS runtime,
-
-
-### mem_limit(bytes) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-Set the upper memory limit for the QuickJS runtime. Exceeding this limit may cause operations to
-fail or throw errors.
-
-
-**bytes**: The maximum memory (in bytes) QuickJS is allowed to use.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### gc_threshold(bytes) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-Set the threshold (in bytes) for QuickJS to perform an automatic GC pass when memory usage surpasses it.
-
-
-**bytes**: The threshold (in bytes) at which the engine triggers automatic garbage collection.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### max_stacksize(bytes) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-Set the maximum stack size for QuickJS. If exceeded, the runtime may throw a stack overflow error.
-
-
-**bytes**: The maximum allowed stack size (in bytes) for QuickJS.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### memstate() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-Gives a quick overview of the memory usage, including malloc size and other allocations.
-
-
-**Returns**: A simpler memory usage object (malloc sizes, etc.) for the QuickJS runtime.
-
-
-### gc() <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-Force an immediate, full garbage collection pass, reclaiming unreachable memory.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### eval(src, filename) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-
-Execute a string of JavaScript code in the current QuickJS context.
-
-
-**src**: A string of JavaScript source code to evaluate.
-
-**filename**: (Optional) A string for the filename or label, used in debugging or stack traces.
-
-
-**Returns**: The result of evaluating the given source code.
-

docs/api/modules/json.md

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# json
-
-### encode(val,space,replacer,whitelist) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Produce a JSON text from a Javascript object. If a record value, at any level, contains a json() method, it will be called, and the value it returns (usually a simpler record) will be JSONified.
-
-If the record does not have a json() method, and if whitelist is a record, then only the keys that are associated with true in the whitelist are included.
-
-If the space input is true, then line breaks and extra whitespace will be included in the text.
-
-### decode(text,reviver) <sub>function</sub>
-
-The text text is parsed, and the resulting value (usually a record or an array) is returned.
-
-The optional reviver input is a method that will be called for every key and value at every level of the result. Each value will be replaced by the result of the reviver function. This can be used to reform data-only records into method-bearing records, or to transform date strings into seconds.

docs/api/modules/loop.md

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-# loop
-
-### step() <sub>function</sub>

docs/api/modules/math.md

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-# math
-
-### dot() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the dot product between two numeric arrays, returning a scalar. Extra elements are ignored.
-
-### project() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Project one vector onto another, returning a new array of the same dimension.
-
-### rotate() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Rotate a 2D point (or array of length 2) by the given angle (in turns) around an optional pivot.
-
-### midpoint() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the midpoint of two arrays of numbers. Only the first two entries are used if 2D is intended.
-
-### reflect() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Reflect a vector across a plane normal. Both arguments must be numeric arrays.
-
-### distance() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the Euclidean distance between two numeric arrays of matching length.
-
-### direction() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the normalized direction vector from the first array to the second.
-
-### angle() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Given a 2D vector, return its angle from the X-axis in radians or some chosen units.
-
-### norm() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a normalized copy of the given numeric array. For 2D/3D/4D or arbitrary length.
-
-### angle_between() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the angle between two vectors (2D/3D/4D).
-
-### lerp() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Linear interpolation between two numbers: lerp(a, b, t).
-
-### gcd() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the greatest common divisor of two integers.
-
-### lcm() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the least common multiple of two integers.
-
-### clamp() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Clamp a number between low and high. clamp(value, low, high).
-
-### angledist() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the signed distance between two angles in 'turn' units, e.g. 0..1 range.
-
-### jitter() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Apply a random +/- percentage noise to a number. Example: jitter(100, 0.05) -> ~95..105.
-
-### mean() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the arithmetic mean of an array of numbers.
-
-### sum() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Sum all elements of an array of numbers.
-
-### sigma() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute standard deviation of an array of numbers.
-
-### median() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Compute the median of an array of numbers.
-
-### length() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the length of a vector (i.e. sqrt of sum of squares).
-
-### from_to() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return an array of points from a start to an end, spaced out by a certain distance.
-
-### rand() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a random float in [0,1).
-
-### randi() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a random 32-bit integer.
-
-### srand() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Seed the random number generator with the given integer, or with current time if none.
-
-### TAU <sub>number</sub>
-
-### deg2rad(deg) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### rad2deg(rad) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### turn2rad(x) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### rad2turn(x) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### turn2deg(x) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### deg2turn(x) <sub>function</sub>

docs/api/modules/miniz.md

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-# miniz
-
-### read(data) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Create a zip reader from the given ArrayBuffer containing an entire ZIP archive.
-Return undefined if the data is invalid.
-
-
-
-**data**: An ArrayBuffer with the entire ZIP file.
-
-
-**Returns**: A 'zip reader' object with methods for reading from the archive (mod, exists, slurp).
-
-
-### write(path) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Create a zip writer that writes to the specified file path. Overwrites the file if
-it already exists. Return undefined on error.
-
-
-
-**path**: The file path where the ZIP archive will be written.
-
-
-**Returns**: A 'zip writer' object with methods for adding files to the archive (add_file).
-

docs/api/modules/nota.md

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-# nota
-
-### encode(value) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Convert a JavaScript value into a NOTA-encoded ArrayBuffer.
-
-This function serializes JavaScript values (such as numbers, strings, booleans, arrays, objects, or ArrayBuffers) into the NOTA binary format. The resulting ArrayBuffer can be stored or transmitted and later decoded back into a JavaScript value.
-
-:throws: An error if no argument is provided.
-
-
-**value**: The JavaScript value to encode (e.g., number, string, boolean, array, object, or ArrayBuffer).
-
-
-**Returns**: An ArrayBuffer containing the NOTA-encoded data.
-
-
-### decode(buffer) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Decode a NOTA-encoded ArrayBuffer into a JavaScript value.
-
-This function deserializes a NOTA-formatted ArrayBuffer into its corresponding JavaScript representation, such as a number, string, boolean, array, object, or ArrayBuffer. If the input is invalid or empty, it returns undefined.
-
-
-
-**buffer**: An ArrayBuffer containing NOTA-encoded data to decode.
-
-
-**Returns**: The decoded JavaScript value (e.g., number, string, boolean, array, object, or ArrayBuffer), or undefined if no argument is provided.
-

docs/api/modules/os.md

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-# os
-
-### make_transform() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Create a new transform object that can be used for 2D/3D positioning, scaling, and rotation.
-
-### clean_transforms() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Force an update on all transforms to remove dangling references or perform house-keeping.
-
-### platform() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a string with the underlying platform name, like 'Windows', 'Linux', or 'macOS'.
-
-### arch() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the CPU architecture string for this system (e.g. 'x64', 'arm64').
-
-### totalmem() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the total system RAM in bytes.
-
-### freemem() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the amount of free system RAM in bytes, if known.
-
-### hostname() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the system's hostname, or an empty string if not available.
-
-### version() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the OS or kernel version string, if the platform provides it.
-
-### kill() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Send a signal (e.g., 'SIGINT', 'SIGTERM', etc.) to the current process.
-
-### exit() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Exit the application with the specified exit code.
-
-### now() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return current time (in seconds as a float) with high resolution.
-
-### openurl() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Open the provided URL in the default web browser, if possible.
-
-### make_timer() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Create a new timer object that will call a specified function after a certain delay.
-
-### update_timers() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Advance all timers by the provided time delta (in seconds).
-
-### sleep() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Block execution for the specified number of seconds.
-
-### battery_pct() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the battery level (percentage) or negative if unknown.
-
-### battery_voltage() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the current battery voltage in volts, if available.
-
-### battery_seconds() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return the estimated remaining battery time in seconds, or negative if unknown.
-
-### power_state() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return a string describing power status: 'on battery', 'charging', 'charged', etc.
-
-### on() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Register a global callback for certain engine-wide or system-level events.
-
-### rt_info() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return internal QuickJS runtime info, such as object counts.
-
-### rusage() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return resource usage stats for this process, if the platform supports it.
-
-### mallinfo() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Return detailed memory allocation info (arena size, free blocks, etc.) on some platforms.
-
-### env() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Fetch the value of a given environment variable, or undefined if it doesn't exist.
-
-### system() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Execute a shell command using the system() call. Returns the command's exit code.

docs/api/modules/packer.md

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-# packer
-
-### getAllFiles(dir) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Return a list of all files in the given directory that are not matched by .prosperonignore,
-skipping directories.
-
-
-
-**dir**: The directory to search.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of file paths found.
-
-
-### gatherStats(filePaths) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Analyze a list of files and categorize them as modules, programs, images, or other.
-
-
-
-**filePaths**: An array of file paths to analyze.
-
-
-**Returns**: An object { modules, programs, images, other, total } with counts.
-
-
-### pack(dir, outPath) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Create a ZIP archive of all files (skipping those matched by .prosperonignore) in the
-specified directory and write it to outPath. This uses the miniz module.
-
-
-
-**dir**: The directory to zip.
-
-**outPath**: The path (including filename) for the resulting ZIP file.
-
-
-**Returns**: None (synchronous). Throws an Error if the directory does not exist.
-

docs/api/modules/render.md

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-# render
-
-### _main <sub>object</sub>
-
-A handle for low-level GPU operations via SDL GPU. Freed on GC.
-
-
-### device <sub>object</sub>
-
-### stencil_writer(...args) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### fillmask(ref) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Draw a fullscreen shape using a 'screenfill' shader to populate the stencil buffer with a given reference.
-
-
-
-**ref**: The stencil reference value to write.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### mask(image, pos, scale, rotation, ref) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Draw an image to the stencil buffer, marking its area with a specified reference value.
-
-
-
-**image**: A texture or string path (which is converted to a texture).
-
-**pos**: The translation (x, y) for the image placement.
-
-**scale**: Optional scaling applied to the texture.
-
-**rotation**: Optional rotation in radians (unused by default).
-
-**ref**: The stencil reference value to write.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### viewport(rect) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Set the GPU viewport to the specified rectangle.
-
-
-
-**rect**: A rectangle [x, y, width, height].
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### scissor(rect) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Set the GPU scissor region to the specified rectangle (alias of render.viewport).
-
-
-
-**rect**: A rectangle [x, y, width, height].
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### queue(cmd) <sub>function</sub>
-
-Enqueue one or more draw commands. These commands are batched until render_camera is called.
-
-
-
-**cmd**: Either a single command object or an array of command objects.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### setup_draw() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Switch the current queue to the primary scene render queue, then invoke 'prosperon.draw' if defined.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-
-
-### setup_hud() <sub>function</sub>
-
-Switch the current queue to the HUD render queue, then invoke 'prosperon.hud' if defined.
-
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-

docs/api/modules/resources.md

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-# resources
-
-### scripts <sub>object</sub>
-
-### images <sub>object</sub>
-
-### sounds <sub>object</sub>
-
-### fonts <sub>object</sub>
-
-### lib <sub>object</sub>
-
-### canonical(file) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### find_image(...args) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### find_sound(...args) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### find_script(...args) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### find_font(...args) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### getAllFiles(dir) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Return a list of recognized files in the given directory that are not matched by
-.prosperonignore, skipping directories. Recognized extensions include scripts,
-images, sounds, fonts, and libs.
-
-
-
-**dir**: The directory to search.
-
-
-**Returns**: An array of recognized file paths.
-
-
-### gatherStats(filePaths) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Analyze a list of recognized files and categorize them by scripts, images, sounds,
-fonts, libs, or other. Return a stats object with these counts and the total.
-
-
-
-**filePaths**: An array of file paths to analyze.
-
-
-**Returns**: { scripts, images, sounds, fonts, lib, other, total }
-
-
-### pack(dir, outPath) <sub>function</sub>
-
-
-Create a ZIP archive of all recognized files (skipping those matched by .prosperonignore)
-in the specified directory and write it to outPath. Recognized extensions are scripts,
-images, sounds, fonts, or libs.
-
-:raises Error: If the directory does not exist.
-
-
-**dir**: The directory to zip.
-
-**outPath**: The path (including filename) for the resulting ZIP file.
-
-
-**Returns**: None
-

docs/api/modules/sound.md

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-# sound
-
-### undefined <sub>string</sub>
-
-### pcm(file) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### play(file) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### cry(file) <sub>function</sub>
-
-### music(file, fade = 0.5) <sub>function</sub>