HyphaeVM Garbage Collection
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This commit removes the dependency upon Mycelium::sexpr::Datum from Hyphae
and instead adds a heap.rs module including three types:

- Gc: This is essentially a Box<Rc<T>> but passed around as a *const Rc<T>.
    not only does this allow the wrapped T to be passed around in a format
    that fits completely within a single physical register, this also
    applies a greedy reference counting garbage collection to each and
    every object allocated in the VM.

- Datum: This is a simplified enum for type polymorphism. Similar to the
    original Mycelium::sexpr::Datum.

- Cons: This is a very standard Cons cell type.

Additionally, two new instructions are added:
- DUPL: a deep copy instruction
- CONST: an instruction to create number datum from embedded constants
- NTOI: casts a number to its inexact form
- NTOE: casts a number to its exact form

Fixes: #35 and #36

Signed-off-by: Ava Affine <ava@sunnypup.io>
This commit is contained in:
Ava Apples Affine 2025-07-26 01:13:13 +00:00
parent 8d2d0ebf0c
commit cf626b2bfc
7 changed files with 324 additions and 295 deletions

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@ -110,34 +110,6 @@ impl fmt::Debug for Datum {
pub struct Ast(pub Rc<Datum>, pub Rc<Datum>);
impl Ast {
pub fn subsl(&self, start: isize, end: isize) -> Ast {
if end - start == 1 {
return Ast(Rc::from(self[start as usize].clone()), Rc::from(Datum::None))
}
if end == 0 {
return Ast(
Rc::from((*(self.0)).clone()),
Rc::from(Datum::None)
)
}
let Datum::List(ref next) = *self.1 else {
panic!("index into improper list form")
};
if start <= 0 {
Ast(
Rc::from((*(self.0)).clone()),
Rc::from(Datum::List(
Rc::from(next.subsl(start - 1, end - 1))))
)
} else {
next.subsl(start - 1, end - 1)
}
}
pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
let Datum::List(ref next) = *self.1 else {
return 1