Direct C translations of our Python-tier primitives at lumbda.py
_walk_circuit_ops / _op_specs_to_bytes / _count_lumbda_ops (commit
99701c8). Same algorithms; native dispatch via interned-Value identity
on cached symbol globals.
NO_SLOT representation differs from Python tier. Python stores the
literal 18446744073709551615 fixnum (arbitrary-precision int). C-tier
fixnums cap at 48 bits via NaN-boxing PAYLOAD_MASK, so we substitute
VAL_FALSE as our slot sentinel inside op-spec vectors; pack_u64_slot
writes 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF whenever it sees VAL_FALSE. Both tiers
produce byte-identical QECCOPS1 output.
API:
- (walk-circuit-ops registers ops) -> list of 7-element op-spec vectors
- (op-specs->bytes specs) -> latin-1 string of 56*N bytes
- (count-lumbda-ops ops) -> 3-element vector (toffoli clifford total)
Symbol cache (g_sym_ccx / g_sym_x / ...) initializes lazily on first
call; intern() is idempotent so repeat init costs nothing. Layout uses
make_hashtable + ht_set/ht_ref/ht_delete for O(1) qubit-base lookup
matching our Python dict-based implementation.
Measured wall on foxhop ecdsa's canonical p=11 textbook+refined emit
pair inside our QEMU guest:
Python tier: 6.9 sec (baseline after primitive lift)
C tier: 0.71 sec (9.7x over Python)
Output verified byte-identical against Python-tier reference files via
cmp on both textbook & refined paths.
Asm tier port deferred. Asm tier's documented role serves bulk 9024-
shot validation (simulator runs against an emitted ops.bin, 160x Python
on portal round-trip per whitepaper s6.6.4) — emit pipeline targets
Python / C tier. ~700-900 lines of hand-written x86_64 asm + QEMU
debug cycles, 2-4 day effort, no current asm-tier emit consumer.
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