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docs(design): what implementation overturned, and what the ecosystem enforced
Five design statements did not survive contact with the code. The cfg semantics
were wrong in a way that made the design more complex than it needed to be:
letting any(...) change the meaning of its operand would have made a
conjunction of two backends unsatisfiable rather than "both are enabled", and
membership everywhere is both correct and one rule fewer for a user to learn.
The compatibility risk was real but on a different path than the one checked.
Form B needs no new toolchain family. nvc++ belongs to form A. And the host
compiler bound should be read from the vendor's header rather than tabulated.
The ecosystem refused three shortcuts on its own: mcpp's runtime closure check
rejected linking the host CUDA runtime, allow_host_libs was not enough to get
past it, and the index already documented that [xlings] deps materialises for
the root project only. Every one of those constraints was already there and
every one was right.
Two mistakes were mine and both are shapes this document warns about. A first
draft of the index package reimplemented a host probe that the sentinel's own
recipe forbids reimplementing, and which xim's hostlib module records as having
been got wrong three times out of four. The same draft carried an extra library
pattern justified by a reason written from memory; measurement showed PTX JIT
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