Historical internal name "uncommonlisp" retired in favor of the
public name "lumbda" ahead of lumbda.com going live. Scope of
this commit:
Source files renamed:
uncommonlisp.py -> lumbda.py
asm/uncommonlisp.s -> asm/lumbda.s
c/uncommonlisp.h -> c/lumbda.h
whitepaper/uncommonlisp-whitepaper -> whitepaper/lumbda-whitepaper (.rst + .pdf)
Binaries renamed (tracked ones; c/ was always gitignored):
asm/uncommonlisp, asm/uncommonlisp-gc, asm/uncommonlisp.o,
asm/uncommonlisp-gc.o -> asm/lumbda(-gc)(.o)
c/.gitignore -> ignores lumbda
Internal string updates (sed pass ordered longest-first):
asm/uncommonlisp -> asm/lumbda
c/uncommonlisp -> c/lumbda
uncommonlisp.py -> lumbda.py
UNCOMMONLISP_BIN -> LUMBDA_BIN (asm/test.sh env var)
"uncommonlisp> " -> "lumbda> " (asm REPL prompt baked into binary)
UNCOMMONLISP -> LUMBDA (macros, comments)
uncommonlisp -> lumbda (prose)
Binary portal magic updated:
"ULPORTAL" -> "LUMBDAB1" # "Lumbda Binary v1"
Old portal files are not backward-compatible — this is a deliberate
break since it's the rename moment. S-expression portals already
carry their own ";; lumbda-portal v1" header and remain cleanly
versioned.
WHITEPAPER.pdf / WHITEPAPER.rst symlinks repointed to the renamed
files. Makefile's whitepaper target targets lumbda-whitepaper.pdf.
Not changed (intentional, separate phases):
- Filesystem directory /home/fox/git/uncommonlisp itself
(fox renames locally and the gitlab repo URL in a follow-up)
- tests.py hardcoded cwd=/home/fox/git/uncommonlisp
(matches the current on-disk location; will flip when the
directory rename ships)
- Git history (immutable; old commits still say uncommonlisp,
which is correct — that's what they were)
Verified:
137 asm no-GC + 137 asm GC + 571 Python + 83 C + 189 shared
functional tests all pass under the new names.
bench-gc-http (2000 req): all 4 cells behave as expected
(cells 1/2 flat, 3 leaks, 4 bounded at 1 chunk).
Python REPL, C REPL, asm REPL all start cleanly.
New infra:
- examples/http-server-noarena.lsp: same HTTP server minus the
heap-snapshot/heap-restore arena loop. Isolates whether the GC
build actually holds memory under real traffic, independent
of the portable snapshot pattern.
- tests/bench-gc-http.sh: drives 5,000 concurrent requests per
cell across the full 2x2 matrix {no-GC, GC} x {snapshot, no}.
- Makefile: new `bench-gc-http` target.
Extended benches to exercise both asm binaries:
- tests/bench-hashset.sh now runs against both asm/uncommonlisp
and asm/uncommonlisp-gc, with set +e so a GC-build crash on
one workload doesn't abort the other.
- tests/web-benchmark.sh adds a dedicated asm-gc row (and prints
its stripped binary size) so the HTTP throughput comparison
reports both.
Whitepaper updates:
- §6.6.4 "Validation: HTTP Server Under Sustained Load" — the
4-cell memory matrix. 3/4 cells green; cell 4 (GC + no
snapshot) crashes at first GC trigger — another instance of
the conservative-scan type-confusion class we already fixed
once at the env/string boundary. Logged as a known issue
rather than shipping a partial fix under time pressure.
heap-snapshot + heap-restore remains the recommended pattern
for production asm code; the naive GC is diagnostic + control
group, not a replacement for the arena discipline.
- §6.5 hash-set speedup table slightly softened to ~15-20x (was
15-21x) since run-to-run noise on a shared laptop shifts the
per-phase ratio by a few percent. Ratio is stable to first
order.
- §8.6 narrative references the ~1280x symbolic-vs-brute-force
figure instead of the stale 40x.
- §6 reproducibility list now lists `make bench-gc-http`.
All 137 asm no-GC + 137 asm GC + 189 shared functional tests
still pass.
Prevent recurrence of 2026-04-16 incident where a leaked asm HTTP
server grew to 19.3 GB RSS and crashed the machine.
examples/http-server.lsp:
- Adds *max-requests* = 50000 hard ceiling. Server self-terminates
before unbounded heap growth reaches dangerous levels.
- Loop tracks request count, exits cleanly + closes server socket.
tests/web-benchmark.sh:
- SPAWNED_PIDS array tracks every background process.
- EXIT/INT/TERM trap kills them all (SIGTERM then SIGKILL).
- stop_server does SIGTERM with 500ms grace period then SIGKILL.
- Final straggler check via pgrep narrows to actual HTTP server
processes (not shell/tmux with "uncommonlisp" in the name).
- pkill -9 fallback as belt-and-suspenders.
CLAUDE.md:
- New "Asm memory discipline" section documents the bump allocator
leak behavior and the required operational discipline.
- Test counts updated (571 py + 83 c + 132 asm + 189 shared = 975).
Added tcp-listen/accept/connect/recv/send/close to Python, C, and asm.
One examples/http-server.lsp runs identically in all three impls and
serves HTTP/1.0 with routing, content-type, and content-length headers.
asm additions:
- SYS_SOCKET/BIND/LISTEN/ACCEPT/CONNECT/SETSOCKOPT syscalls
- 6 tcp-* builtins using the existing port encoding (SPECIAL ≥ 1000)
- bi_tcp_connect: dotted-quad IPv4 parser, no DNS dependency
Defects fixed along the way (surfaced by the HTTP server):
- string-append: was 2-arg only; now variadic (walks arg list twice)
- number->string: was stubbed to VAL_VOID; now correctly writes digits
into a heap-allocated string (incl. negative handling)
- String-literal reader: \r and \0 escape sequences now handled (was
silently dropping backslash, treating them as literal 'r' / '0')
- tcp_accept: sockaddr buffer was 8 bytes, now 16 (was corrupting
caller's stack when accept wrote full struct sockaddr_in)
Pinocchio benchmark (tests/web-benchmark.sh):
At concurrency=20, 1000 requests, serving a 1KB body:
uncommonlisp Python 373 req/s
uncommonlisp C 370 req/s
uncommonlisp asm 370 req/s
python3 http.server 381 req/s (stdlib reference)
busybox httpd 382 req/s (production reference)
All five converge within 3% — the client (curl fork/exec) is the
bottleneck, not the server. Our single-threaded blocking servers
are indistinguishable from battle-tested ones at this load.
Binary sizes:
uncommonlisp asm 45 KB (HTTP + everything else)
busybox httpd 2.1 MB (multi-call binary)
python3 8 MB (interpreter)
The asm HTTP server is 46× smaller than busybox and 176× smaller
than Python, serves from 7 Linux syscalls, and the entire protocol
handler is 70 lines of portable Scheme.
Test counts: 132 asm (up 1), rest unchanged. All green.
