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vplatformfabric

A registry of the platform mechanisms behind Venutian, and what a program can ask of each.

Released v1.0.0 · 2026-09-28

Import

use "stdlib/platformfabric.ven"

A registry of the mechanisms Venutian uses to run consistently across operating systems and hardware, naming each part and what a running program can ask of it.

vplatformfabric.ven

Reference (9 functions)

mechanism
gpu_mechanism_status
npu_mechanism_status
accelerator_mechanism_status
simd_mechanism_status
virtualization_mechanism_status
platform_fabric_mechanisms
platform_fabric_summary
platform_fabric_report

API reference

`mechanism(name, owner_file, inspectable, status)`

Builds one registry entry describing a single platform-fabric mechanism.

print mechanism("Test Mechanism", "src/example.ven", yes, "available")
:: prints: {"name": "Test Mechanism", "owner_file": "src/example.ven", "inspectable": yes, "status": "available"}

`gpu_mechanism_status()`

Gives back the GPU backend layer's live, honest status text.

print gpu_mechanism_status()
:: prints (under the native VM, on a machine with a GPU): available (device: Apple M5; backends: metal, opencl, vulkan)

`npu_mechanism_status()`

Gives back the NPU abstraction's live, honest status text.

print npu_mechanism_status()
:: prints: not implemented on either virtual machine

`accelerator_mechanism_status()`

Gives back the general accelerator abstraction's live, honest status text.

print accelerator_mechanism_status()
:: prints: no general, device-class-agnostic accelerator abstraction exists (not implemented yet)

`simd_mechanism_status()`

Gives back the SIMD abstraction's live, honest status text.

print simd_mechanism_status()
:: prints: not implemented on either virtual machine

`virtualization_mechanism_status()`

Gives back the hardware virtualization abstraction's live, honest status text.

print virtualization_mechanism_status()
:: prints: no hardware-virtualization/hypervisor capability exists (not implemented yet)

`platform_fabric_mechanisms()`

print length(platform_fabric_mechanisms())
:: prints: 16

`platform_fabric_summary()`

Gives back the registry's total and inspectable mechanism counts as a map.

print platform_fabric_summary()
:: prints: {"total": 16, "inspectable": 1}

`platform_fabric_report()`

Builds the full human-readable registry report as a single Text value.

report = platform_fabric_report()
print contains(report, "Domain 029 (platform fabric) mechanism registry.")
print contains(report, "1 of 16 mechanism(s) are inspectable from Venutian source today.")
:: prints: yes
:: prints: yes

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