Task: Remove stable_arena and close the XML story
Table of Contents
This page documents a task in the Decide the XML strategy for ORE documents story. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance, and any notes or results.
1. Goal
Delete stable_arena and its test, then bring the story header up to date and close it.
2. Status
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| State | DONE |
| Parent story | Decide the XML strategy for ORE documents |
| Now | Nothing. |
| Waiting on | Nothing. |
| Next | Nothing. |
| Last touched | 2026-10-20 |
3. Acceptance
- stable_arena.hpp, its test and their cmake entries are gone
- The story states what it delivered and is DONE
- The ores.ore build and tests pass
4. Plan
Main added stable_arena in #3584 so a wide-record arena could be a pointer-stable
container on MSVC. The trade columns of #3583 removed every arena the portfolio
needed, and the generator no longer emits stable_arena. Delete the header, its
test and their cmake entries. Then update the story header and close it.
(Implementation strategy. Written when work starts; key decisions
are distilled into the parent story's * Decisions at close, but the
plan itself stays — it is the historical record of what we did.)
5. Measurements
Every number this task claims about a tree, with the command that produced it
and the commit it was measured at. A number without both is not a measurement,
because a clean-up record describes a tree and trunk moves under a branch: a
consumer count, a gate's component count and a suite's size all change with no
code changing, and the reader of a bare number cannot tell which tree it came
from. Where the raw output matters, put it in an evidence/ file beside the
task and name that file in the Command column.
| What | Value | Command | Commit |
|---|---|---|---|
6. Notes
The generator still emits a plain std::vector arena for a recursive schema.
The Python tests cover that path.
7. Test Scenarios
Manual QA scenarios (scaffolded via compass add test_scenario)
that verify this task. Link
new ones here as they're created; the scenario doc itself links back
via its "Verifies task" field.
| Scenario | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
8. PRs
| PR | Title |
|---|---|
| #3588 | [ore] Remove stable_arena and close the XML story |
9. Review
| Comment summary | File | Decision | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|