The adaptive heartbeat tick counter (vm->heartbeat.tick_count) is the project's sole canonical clock for timing measurements -- host wall-clock is not a valid substitute. Exposes it read-only so DoE/overhead campaigns can measure elapsed ticks instead of wall-clock deltas. Verified: three-arch QEMU acceptance (amd64/aarch64/riscv64), POST 1012/0/0 on each, HEARTBEAT-TICKS@ live-tested returning a real non-zero count on all three. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
lfs/
Per-architecture copies of the hosted starforth binary. The hosted
Makefile copies the freshly built binary here as its last build step
(cp $(BINARY) lfs/$(ARCH_DIR)/starforth), separate from
build/<arch>/<profile>/, which is the working build-output tree.
amd64/starforth,arm64/starforth,riscv64/starforth— one binary per architecture, rebuilt whenever that architecture's hosted build runs.