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Brummel cd3d1ca9ed refactor(aura-core): split Scalar into a tag-free Cell + ScalarKind
Motivation
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`Scalar` was a tagged enum (I64/F64/Bool/Ts), so every scalar value
physically carried its own kind tag. But the kind is already known from
the schema/port/column the value flows through (C7: the type is a
property of the column, not of the value — the hot path is already
columnar `Column<T>`, and `AnyColumn::get` *reconstructs* the tag from
the column on the way out). The per-value tag was therefore redundant
with the kind the surrounding context already holds.

That redundancy had three costs:

  * It baked an implicit `match` (a branch) into every function that read
    a Scalar payload — even where the caller statically knew the type.
    The tag could never be exploited away.
  * Size: a tagged enum is tag + payload = 16 bytes (f64/i64 alignment),
    twice the 8 bytes the value needs. A `Column<Scalar>` would be double
    the memory and half the cache utilisation.
  * It is the shared root of several downstream papercuts we keep hitting
    — the lossy f64 manifest field, the `unreachable!` panic on a
    non-numeric param, the serde-tag question — all symptoms of "the type
    is baked into the value".

Change
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Introduce `Cell`: a type-erased 64-bit word (`struct Cell(u64)`) that is
not readable without external type context. It is constructed per base
type (`from_i64/from_f64/from_bool/from_ts`) and read only by naming the
type at the call site (`i64()/f64()/bool()/ts()`) — each a branch-free
bit-cast. The hot path resolves the kind once at the boundary (from the
schema) and then reads natively, with no per-value branch. `Cell` knows
nothing of `Scalar` or `ScalarKind`; the dependency is strictly one-way,
and it lives in its own `cell.rs` (more is planned on top of it).

`Scalar` becomes `struct { kind: ScalarKind, cell: Cell }` — the
self-describing form for the dynamic boundaries (builder binding,
serialization, rendering), built on top of `Cell`. Its `as_*` accessors
now `debug_assert` the kind and return the native value (free in
release); calling the wrong accessor is a caller bug, not a checked
`Option`. The variant constructors `Scalar::I64(..)` become associated
fns `Scalar::i64(..)`.

`PartialEq` is hand-written (not derived) to preserve the former enum's
value semantics: kinds must match, then native payloads compare, so f64
keeps IEEE-754 behaviour (`NaN != NaN`, `+0.0 == -0.0`) and a kind
mismatch is never equal even when the raw words coincide. A fixture
(`scalar_eq_is_value_not_bitwise`) pins exactly the cases where bit- and
value-equality diverge, so it can't silently regress. `Cell`'s own
`Eq`/`Hash` stay bitwise — correct for a raw word.

The change is behaviour-preserving: Scalar's observable behaviour is
identical to the pre-Cell enum (the value-equality fixture proves it);
only the internal representation changed. The ~440 call sites across the
workspace are a mechanical constructor rename plus ~12 destructuring
sites (match-arms / `let`-patterns) rewritten to `kind()` + `as_*`.

Verified: cargo build --workspace --all-targets, cargo clippy --workspace
--all-targets -- -D warnings, cargo test --workspace — all green.
2026-06-16 12:12:52 +02:00

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//! `Add` — two-input f64 sum (input 0 plus input 1), the companion to `Sub`.
//! Combines two signal streams into one — the most basic combinator for the
//! north-star "combine one signal with another" research move (C10).
use aura_core::{Ctx, FieldSpec, Firing, Node, NodeSchema, PortSpec, PrimitiveBuilder, Scalar, ScalarKind};
/// Two-input f64 sum: input 0 plus input 1. Emits `None` until both inputs
/// have a value.
///
/// # Firing and warm-up
///
/// Both inputs are [`Firing::Any`](aura_core::Firing::Any) — a *mode-A as-of
/// join*: the node fires on every cycle in which either leg is fresh (once both
/// have produced a value), pairing the fresh leg with the held value of the
/// other. Until both legs have a value it emits `None` (no cold-leg-as-`0.0`).
/// With heterogeneous sources sharing a timestamp (same `ts` from two sources =
/// two distinct cycles, C4), a fired node emits one row per *cycle*, so a
/// recorded combined stream may carry more than one row per timestamp.
pub struct Add {
out: [Scalar; 1],
}
impl Add {
/// Build an `Add` node.
pub fn new() -> Self {
Self { out: [Scalar::f64(0.0)] }
}
/// The param-generic recipe for a blueprint primitive: paramless, builds through
/// `Add::new`.
pub fn builder() -> PrimitiveBuilder {
PrimitiveBuilder::new(
"Add",
NodeSchema {
inputs: vec![
PortSpec { kind: ScalarKind::F64, firing: Firing::Any, name: "lhs".into() },
PortSpec { kind: ScalarKind::F64, firing: Firing::Any, name: "rhs".into() },
],
output: vec![FieldSpec { name: "value".into(), kind: ScalarKind::F64 }],
params: vec![],
},
|_| Box::new(Add::new()),
)
}
}
impl Default for Add {
fn default() -> Self {
Self::new()
}
}
impl Node for Add {
fn lookbacks(&self) -> Vec<usize> {
vec![1, 1]
}
fn eval(&mut self, ctx: Ctx<'_>) -> Option<&[Scalar]> {
let a = ctx.f64_in(0);
let b = ctx.f64_in(1);
if a.is_empty() || b.is_empty() {
return None;
}
self.out[0] = Scalar::f64(a[0] + b[0]);
Some(&self.out)
}
fn label(&self) -> String {
"Add".to_string()
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
use aura_core::{AnyColumn, Timestamp};
#[test]
fn add_is_sum_once_both_inputs_present() {
let mut add = Add::new();
let mut inputs = vec![
AnyColumn::with_capacity(ScalarKind::F64, 1),
AnyColumn::with_capacity(ScalarKind::F64, 1),
];
// only input 0 present -> None
inputs[0].push(Scalar::f64(10.0)).unwrap();
assert_eq!(add.eval(Ctx::new(&inputs, Timestamp(0))), None);
// both present -> a + b
inputs[1].push(Scalar::f64(4.0)).unwrap();
assert_eq!(add.eval(Ctx::new(&inputs, Timestamp(0))), Some([Scalar::f64(14.0)].as_slice()));
}
#[test]
fn input_slots_are_named_lhs_rhs() {
let a = Add::builder();
let names: Vec<&str> = a.schema().inputs.iter().map(|p| p.name.as_str()).collect();
assert_eq!(names, ["lhs", "rhs"]);
}
}