The sljit Tier-2 in-process JIT was replaced by the tcc tier in c2a3f6ad
(2026-06-25) and removed outright in 5b7e69b4 (2026-07-15). That removal
reworded the C-level comments but touched no markdown, so the prose still
described sljit as a live, default-on backend.
Backends today are static -> gcc -> tcc: gcc is the development default when
it is on PATH, tcc is the toolchain-free path for players. Both are external
compilers invoked as a subprocess that produce a DLL; neither is an in-process
JIT. docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/BUILDING.md, docs/EXECUTION_MODEL.md,
docs/COMPILING_OVERLAYS.md and README.md already said this correctly and are
unchanged here.
- THIRD_PARTY_ATTRIBUTION.md: the sljit entry claimed code vendored at
lib/sljit/ and compiled into the runtime. That directory does not exist.
Replaced with a TinyCC entry, which was missing entirely despite tcc being
the compiler intended to reach end users.
- docs/internal/SLJIT_PERSIST_CACHE.md: deleted. It documented the persisted
shard cache of a subsystem that no longer exists, as "implemented" and
"default-on". docs/internal/README.md updated to point at the current model
instead of a dead link.
- docs/ASYNC_OVERLAY_COMPILE.md: superseded-in-part header. Deliberately NOT
rewritten sljit->tcc: the passages about serializing .sljit blobs,
overlay_sljit_deserialize and an in-memory JIT registry describe a mechanism
tcc never used, so renaming it would trade one false claim for another. The
async worker/file-handoff design and the CPS work remain accurate.
- docs/OVERLAY_CACHE_V2.md: sljit dropped from the dispatch priority chain.
- ISSUES.md: Issue #7 closed as superseded — the backend it reported against
was deleted rather than fixed.
- docs/internal/COSIM_ORACLE.md: sljit_helpers left CPUState with the tier.
- Dated session logs (RECURSION_BUG.md 25.5, BACKDROP_PRELOAD.md,
ecosystem-watch.md) keep their narrative and get a pointer to the removal.
One thing this does not fix: docs assert the tcc toolchain is "downloaded at
release-packaging time and bundled beside the game exe". runtime/src/main.cpp
does look for <exe_dir>/overlay_toolchain/, but no script in this repository
creates it. The attribution entry now states only what the code does and notes
that if packaging supplies the bundle, it happens outside this repo and must
carry the TinyCC notice. Flagged rather than papered over.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove the in-tree launcher implementation and its submodules now that game projects use recomp-ui for launcher support.
Keep Vulkan hidden from the launcher unless a game explicitly sets [video] offer_vulkan = true, and clamp stale Vulkan settings back to OpenGL when it is not offered.
Co-authored-by: Martin Penkava <mpenkava1337@gmail.com>
Add a durable upstream-derived work policy and record the seven focused draft PRs with exact implementation/source commits, validation, exclusions, and review gates.
Matthew Stanley