Orientation

Where to begin: what the set specifies and how it is laid out, the machine at a glance, the execution environment with its stations and architectural register file, and the wave log — the one ordered truth everything else is read from.

Read these four in order. By the end of volume 03 every later volume has its ground: the tuple envelope, the offsets that order it, and the rule that the log is only ever appended to.

  1. 01Introduction and Reading MapThe reading map of the set, its conventions and its naming.CURRENT
  2. 02Volume 01 — Overview: the Nest Runtime at a GlanceThe machine at a glance: philosophy, figure, machine classes.CURRENT
  3. 03Volume 02 — Machine Model and the Architectural Register FileExecution environment, stations, the architectural register file.CURRENT
  4. 04Volume 03 — The Wave Log: Envelope, Ordering, PersistenceThe wave log: envelope, offsets, ordering, persistence (JSONL), quiescence.CURRENT