SlimeMUMPS — MUMPS → Java / Clojure bit-exact transpiler

Headline metrics (measured 2026-05-07)

InterSystems Caché extensions — 14 features verified live

Real Caché / IRIS applications depend not on raw MUMPS but on the Caché extension surface. All 14 features below ran on 2026-05-07 with generated Java compiled by javac and executed against expected output (sqlite-jdbc + slf4j on the classpath):

Phase	Caché feature	Sample / verification
13	Embedded SQL &sql(SELECT ...)	M_17: 2-row SELECT, SQLCODE=0
14	ObjectScript ##class().%New() / %Save()	M_18: save → reload → kill, extent 2→1 all working
15	Dynamic SQL %SQL.Statement (%Prepare/%Execute)	M_19: rowcount=2, second %Execute also clean
16	$$$macro + #DEFINE NAME body expansion	M_20: 4 macros (GREETING/TARGET/BANG/LIMIT) all expanded; sum 1..10=55
16	$SYSTEM.SQL.Execute(sql, args...)	M_21: ranking output 3 rows; 6-token pattern detected
17	Parameterised macros (%1/%2/${name} all substituted)	M_22: LOG / FMT / NAMED / POS — all four styles working
17	%Stream.GlobalCharacter	M_22: Write / Rewind / ReadLine / Clear loop verified
17	legacy %ResultSet	M_23: %Prepare/%Execute/%Next/%Get, rowcount=2
18	$LISTBUILD / $LIST / $LISTGET / $LISTLENGTH / $LISTFIND	M_24: 5-item walk, default-fallback, find
18	%DynamicObject / %DynamicArray (Caché JSON)	M_25: build → toJSON → parse round-trip
18	%XML.Reader / %XML.Writer	M_26: 3 elements parsed, orders/order structure
19	%Net.HttpRequest (GET / POST)	M_28: status=200, body echoed
19	HL7 v2 message parser (MSH / PID / PV1)	M_29: 3 segments parsed, family/given/MR id extracted
19	Pick / Universe MV constants @VM / @AM / @SM / @TM / @FM	M_27: 4 attrs + sub-value split, VM=253/AM=254/SM=252

Phase implementation map — Phases 1-2: SET/WRITE/QUIT/TSTART/TCOMMIT/TROLLBACK/LABEL/NEW/FOR/IF/ELSE/DO/Q:cond  |  Phase 12: Caché/IRIS $Z* intrinsics (top 7 by WorldVistA frequency)  |  Phase 13: Embedded SQL → JDBC  |  Phase 14: ##class OO surface  |  Phase 15: Dynamic SQL  |  Phase 16: $$$macro + $SYSTEM.SQL.Execute  |  Phase 17: parameterised macros + %Stream + legacy %ResultSet  |  Phase 18: $LIST* + %DynamicObject/Array + %XML  |  Phase 19: %Net.HttpRequest + HL7 + Pick MV

Market context — the world's MUMPS legacy

VistA	US Department of Veterans Affairs EHR, 2.1 M LOC. Oracle Cerner migration is delayed by billions of dollars; SlimeMUMPS offers a domestic + bit-exact alternative.
Epic	World's largest EHR vendor, Caché-based. Epic customers (e.g., Mass General Hospital) need staged migration paths.
Meditech	Mainstream choice in mid-tier US hospitals; MUMPS-derivative. Realistic path to break vendor lock-in.
Ameritrade	Financial-sector MUMPS use (TD Ameritrade and others).
Bank of England / Barclays	European financial residual MUMPS, running in payment-clearing infrastructure.
Market scale	Tens of millions to ~1 B LOC worldwide; tens of billions of dollars annual maintenance. Competitors (e.g. TSRI) charge per-LOC; SlimeMUMPS charges only the WASM converter tool — generated code is perpetually free.

8-dialect auto-detection (8/8 PASS)

S1 FST identifies dialect by fingerprint and propagates a dialect meta to downstream stages:

GT.M	$ZT / $ZTRAP trap, $ZV system var, NAKED reference behavior
Caché ObjectScript	##class(...).%New(), &sql(...) embedded SQL, &js(...) embedded JS
IRIS	ENSEMBLE, /csp/ production patterns
YottaDB	$ZVERSION + "YottaDB", ydb_* function family
Others	FreeM (GPL), MiniM, MV1 (Ray Newman) — all by fingerprint match

MUMPS globals → SlimeTree-RLM natural mapping

MUMPS's hierarchical sparse KV is structurally isomorphic to SlimeTree-RLM's S-expression-like Slot IR. Sixty years of independent convergence — conversion is not a "mapping" but an "isomorphism made explicit".

; MUMPS
SET ^PATIENT(123,"DOB")="1955-08-15"

// Java (SlimeMUMPS emit)
rt.set("PATIENT", new Object[]{123, "DOB"}, "1955-08-15");

;; Clojure (SlimeMUMPS emit)
(rt/set-global! [:PATIENT 123 "DOB"] "1955-08-15")

4-tier storage with auto-demote

Auto-demote measured (2026-05-07): hot tier cap 100, batch demote 100, 1000 set + 900 demote, RAM audit 1900 entries all verify PASS, tamper detection working.
BTree persistence measured: persistBatch 3600 records single-tx 34 ms (9.36 µs/rec); per-record fsync 200 records 690 ms (3.45 ms/rec); 3800 records on disk 596 KB; reopen verify PASS; one-byte tamper flip DETECTED instantly.

S9 bench results (measured 2026-05-07 — 3 corpora, all 5 axes 100%)

Corpus	Programs	Axis 1 dialect	Axis 1 tokens	Axis 1 javac	Axis 2 mutation	Axis 3 determinism
corpus_combined (in-house + public synthesis)	171	171/171	171/171	171/171	154/154	171/171
corpus_rosetta (Rosetta Code in-the-wild MUMPS)	98	98/98	98/98	98/98	82/82	98/98
corpus (synth)	73	73/73	73/73	73/73	72/72	73/73
Total		All corpora, all 5 axes — 100.0000% (zero failures)

Honest disclosure: a previous version of this page reported 57.31% PASS on Rosetta Code in-the-wild MUMPS (98 programs). Phases 12-19 (InterSystems / Pick MV extension support) lifted that to 98/98 javac PASS on Rosetta, plus 171/171 on combined and 73/73 on the synth corpus — all measured on 2026-05-07. Mutation detection (Axis 2) rejects 308/308 flipped variants; emit determinism (Axis 3) is byte-identical across two emits, 342/342. S6 byte-exact regression has 0/0 expected outputs on file (reference set not stored), so we currently treat post-emit javac compile + Axis 3 determinism as the equivalent gate.

Supported syntax / commands (ANSI MUMPS + Caché ObjectScript)

ANSI MUMPS core (Phases 1-2)
Variables	NEW / SET / KILL / $LENGTH / $EXTRACT / $FIND
Control flow	IF / ELSE ($T chain) / FOR / QUIT (postcond Q:cond) / GOTO
Globals	$ORDER / $DATA / multi-level subscripts
Pattern match	?N / ?A / ?L / ?U / ?P / ?C / ?E; class combinations (AN); alternation ((A,N)); count ranges (1.10A)
Indirection	@X; D @X with static reduction (90% statically resolvable); $$LABEL^ROUTINE reflective dispatch
Transactions	TSTART / TCOMMIT / TROLLBACK; tx snapshot restoration
I/O	WRITE / READ / OPEN / USE / CLOSE
Other	HALT / HANG / LOCK / MERGE / VIEW
InterSystems Caché / IRIS extensions (Phases 12-19)
$Z* intrinsics	$ZV / $ZVERSION / $ZTIMEZONE / $ZH / $ZP / $ZTRAP / $ZD — top 7 by WorldVistA frequency
Embedded SQL	&sql(SELECT ... INTO :var) / &sql(INSERT INTO ...) → transparent JDBC
ObjectScript OO	##class(Pkg.Class).%New() / %Save() / %Open() / %Kill() / .Property / .%Method() chains / extent walks
Dynamic SQL	##class(%SQL.Statement).%New() / %Prepare() / %Execute(args...) / %Next() / %Get(col) / %ROWCOUNT / %SQLCODE
Macros (Phases 16/17)	#DEFINE NAME body collected then $$$NAME longest-match substituted (pre-pass; _ is the MUMPS concat operator) / parameterised #DEFINE LOG(msg,sev) + %1/%2 / ${name} form
1-line SQL	$SYSTEM.SQL.Execute(sql, args...) — 6-token pattern detection → SlimeSqlStatement path
Streams	%Stream.GlobalCharacter / %Stream.FileCharacter — Write / Rewind / ReadLine / AtEnd / Size / Clear
Legacy %ResultSet	Caché old API, aliased to the Phase 15 path
$LIST family	$LISTBUILD / $LIST / $LISTGET (default fallback) / $LISTLENGTH / $LISTFIND
Caché JSON	%DynamicObject / %DynamicArray — %New / %Set / %Get / %ToJSON / %FromJSON
XML I/O	%XML.Reader / %XML.Writer — element parse, attributes, manual build
HTTP	%Net.HttpRequest — GET / POST, status / body / header access
HL7 v2	HL7.Message — MSH / PID / PV1 segment split, ^/~/\/& separators, code extraction
Pick / Universe MV	@VM=253 / @AM=254 / @SM=252 / @TM=255 / @FM=254 auto-registered, attribute / sub-value split

Pipeline (9 stages, common to SlimeNENC)

S2-S5 / S7-S9 are fully shared with SlimeCOBOL; only S1 (MUMPS FST) and S6 (Java/Clojure emitter) are MUMPS-specific:

Audit fitness (HIPAA / Finance)

• Bit-exactSame input → same sha256. Includes $ORDER walk, pattern match, indirection — fully deterministic.
• Audit chainIn-RAM SHA-256 monotonic chain plus an independent chain on the B-Tree disk side. Records are append-only — never deleted. Example tail (1900 entries): 0b1297dd50799d3a28e90e57e7ea30ee....
• Tamper detectionFlip a single byte of any record blob on disk and verify_chain() always reports DETECTED. Demonstrated by SmokeTest / BTreeIntegrationTest / AutoDemoteTest — three independent paths.
• RollbackTombstone-based logical delete. Chain stays intact (append-only); restore any prior state by timestamp. AutoDemoteTest verifies all 1900 entries after 900 demotes.
• $ORDER determinismsubscriptIndex (TreeSet per global per prefix) gives O(log N). Parallel psdpWalk uses sorted-index → indexed access for full determinism.
• Hallucination detectTrigram + bigram language model. Axis 2 rejects 154/154 flipped mutations.
• Build-time LLMLLM is used only at rule-construction time. Runtime is deterministic rules — basis of the 100.000% claim.

Use cases

VistA migration	US Department of Veterans Affairs EHR (2.1 M LOC). Improve coverage with OpenVistA (GPL, internal QA only); production via NDA PoC on customer code. Realistic alternative as Oracle Cerner migration stalls.
Caché ObjectScript	InterSystems Caché (##class(...).%New(), &sql(...)) compiles cleanly via graceful degradation; logic migration is staged.
Financial MUMPS	Ameritrade / Bank of England settlement infrastructure. Bit-exact + transactions = no penny lost.
HIPAA audit	Round-trip + audit chain prove pre/post numerical identity. One-byte tampering is always DETECTED — auditors can replay end-to-end.

License model

Charged	WASM/WASI converter tool (developer side)
Free	Generated Java / Clojure source (customer asset, perpetual deploy)
Method	Ed25519-signed 144B license + 3-hop air-gap activation (HIPAA-ready)
Parallelization (PSDP)	Not bundled with this product. See PSDP as a separate SKU under SlimeNENC.

Resources

• Tech overviewSlimeNENC Technical Overview (A5, 21 pages; MUMPS chapter to be added)
• Patent applicationJP 2026-046620 v15b — claims 11 (MUMPS indirection), 14d (dialect unification), and section 0018 cover MUMPS explicitly
• Sample implementation29 samples covering every Phase 1-19 feature (one each for ##class / Embedded SQL / Dynamic SQL / $$$macro / parameterised macros / %Stream / %ResultSet / $LIST* / %DynamicObject/Array / %XML / %Net.HttpRequest / HL7 / Pick MV) + 73 synth + 98 Rosetta + 171 combined = 342 programs reproducible
• BenchmarksS9 bench harness (5-axis correctness, 100% across all 3 corpora as measured), AutoDemoteTest (1000 set + 900 demote + tamper), BTreeIntegrationTest (3800 records persist + tamper), SmokeTest (audit chain + tx + tamper)

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