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commitae12eade6c9f482307b9c47ab465283ead921517 authorMatilde Park <matilde@tlon.io> dateMon 3 Feb 2020, 16:59 (7 years ago) parentd49d1e2
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ This article is intended to provide a thorough summary of all of the most
1414important aspects of the Arvo kernel and how this functionality gives life to
1515the ambitions of the Urbit platform. We work on two levels: a conceptual level
1616that should be useful to anybody interested in how Arvo works, and a more
17−technical level intended for those that intend to write software for Urbit.
17+technical level intended for those that intend to write software for Urbit.
1818
1919The [Urbit white paper](https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf) is a good
2020companion to this document, and some segments are direct quotes or paraphrases, but it should be noted that some parts of it are now either out of date or not yet implemented.
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ companion to this document, and some segments are direct quotes or paraphrases,
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2424The conceptual section titled [What is Arvo?](#what-is-arvo-) can be understood
2525without knowing Hoon, the Urbit programming language. The technical section
26−titled [The kernel](#the-kernel) will require Chapter One of the [Hoon tutorial](@/docs/tutorials/hoon/_index.md) for full understanding, and some material from Chapter Two will be helpful as well. At the bare minimum, we presume that the reader has read through the [Technical Overview](@/docs/concepts/technical-overview.md).
26+titled [The kernel](#the-kernel) will require Chapter One of the [Hoon tutorial](@/docs/tutorials/hoon/_index.md) for full understanding, and some material from Chapter Two will be helpful as well. At the bare minimum, we presume that the reader has read through the [Technical Overview](@/docs/tutorials/concepts/technical-overview.md).
2727
2828We also suggest to the reader to peruse the [glossary](@/docs/glossary/_index.md) before diving into this article. It will provide the initial scaffolding that you will be able to gradually fill in as you read this article and go deeper into the alternate universe of computing that is Urbit.
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@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Arvo as being a stateful packet transceiver rather than an ordinary computer - e
102102are never guaranteed to complete, even if one can prove that the computation
103103would eventually terminate. We elaborate on this in the [solid state
104104interpreter](#solid-state-intrepeter) section.
105−
105+
106106Because Arvo is run on a VM, nondeterministic information such as the stack
107107trace of an infinite loop that was entered into may be obtained. This is
108108possible because while Arvo may be unable to obtain that information, the
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Database theory studies in precise terms the possible properties of anything tha
204204 Arvo
205205 transactions are sequential and performed by the daemon, persistence and effect application are performed
206206 in parallel by the worker; see [worker and
207− daemon](@/docs/tutorials/vere/_index.md) for more detail.
207+ daemon](@/docs/tutorials/vere/_index.md) for more detail.
208208
209209 - Durability: Completed transactions will survive permanently. In other words,
210210 since the event log is stored on disk, if power is lost you are guaranteed
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ It is easy to think that "completed transaction will survive permanently"
214214along with "the state of Arvo is pure function of its event log" implies that
215215nothing can ever be deleted. This is not quite true.
216216[Clay](@/docs/tutorials/arvo/clay.md) is our [referentially
217−transparency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency)
217+transparency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referential_transparency)
218218file system, which could naively be thought to mean that since data must be
219219immutable, files cannot be deleted. However, Clay can replace a file with a
220220"tombstone" that causes Clay to crash whenever it is accessed. Referential
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ This section requires an understanding of Hoon of at least the level of Chapter
255255 + Larval stage core
256256 + Formal interface
257257
258−See [Section 1.7](@/docs/tutorials/hoon/arms-and-cores/#core-nesting) of the Hoon tutorial for further explanation of what is meant here by "nesting". We now describe the functionality of each of these components.
258+See [Section 1.7](@/docs/tutorials/hoon/arms-and-cores.md#core-nesting) of the Hoon tutorial for further explanation of what is meant here by "nesting". We now describe the functionality of each of these components.
259259
260260### Formal interface
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@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ The Arvo causal stack is called a `duct`. This is represented simply as a list o
297297
298298Here's a `duct` that was recently observed in the wild upon entering `-time ~s1`
299299into the dojo and pressing Enter, which sets a timer for one second that will
300−then produce a `@d` with the current time after the timer has elapsed:
300+then produce a `@d` with the current time after the timer has elapsed:
301301
302302```
303303~[
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ This is where the real state of the Arvo kernel is kept. `lac` detemines whether
520520Arvo's output is verbose, which can be set using the `|verb` command in the
521521dojo. `eny` is the current entropy. `our` is the ship, which is permanently
522522frozen during the larval stage. `bud` is the standard library. Lastly, `vanes`
523−is of course the list of vanes, which have their own internal states.
523+is of course the list of vanes, which have their own internal states.
524524
525525As you can see, the state of Arvo itself is quite simple. Its primary role is that of
526526a traffic cop, and most of the interesting part of the state lies in `vanes`.