perf: stop re-entering the runtime to append to and pop from an Array subclass's own elements store (−9.5% / −11.4%) - #8985
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The store is ours — reached through the meta slot, never a proxy, never a forwarding stub, its header one read away — but every push went through `js_array_push_f64`'s full entry for an arbitrary caller pointer, wrapped in a `RuntimeHandleScope` that rooted the owner and the value even when the append could not allocate. A fresh profile of the wolf-ecs twins put `elements_push` at 3.8% + `RuntimeHandleScope::push` at 1.5%, with `js_array_pop_f64` at 5.1% re-entering the runtime a second time for the store. An in-capacity append now stores directly (header read, flag test, `store_array_slot_resolved`, length bump) and a non-hole tail pop is a load and a length decrement. Growth still takes the complete entry with the owner rooted across it and publishes the re-allocated head; holes, an empty store, and frozen/sealed/no-extend/descriptor-bearing stores keep the runtime path unchanged. Test: 64 appends across several capacity classes (asserting the head is republished on growth), ordered tail pops, a hole popping through the runtime, an empty-store pop, and a pointer element round-tripping. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019WVcWKmYsUBnnFB7nBgbBJ
…load `sub.pop()` reached the inline tier's header gate, failed the `GC_TYPE_ARRAY` test (the receiver is the object) and called `js_array_pop_f64`, which then re-derived the store and popped from it — 5.1% of the wolf-ecs entity cycle in a call that only exists to follow one pointer. The gate now has a second arm: a `GC_TYPE_OBJECT` receiver loads its meta record and `ObjectMeta.elements` (word 12), validates that store exactly as a plain Array receiver is validated (type, not forwarded, none of FROZEN|SEALED|NO_EXTEND|ARRAY_DESCRIPTORS), and the existing length/read/take blocks run on it through a payload phi. Everything else — a null meta, no store, a hole, an empty array, an exotic flag — keeps the runtime entry. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019WVcWKmYsUBnnFB7nBgbBJ
Five inline tiers each recomputed `object_header_size_bytes(target) - pointer_size` to reach `ObjectHeader::meta` (the elements store, the spill buffer, the prototype override). `object_meta_slot_offset_bytes` derives it once, and the audited object-header-size callsite census drops from 46 to 42. Also switches the new elements store header read to the sanctioned `addr_class::try_read_gc_header` accessor instead of a hand-rolled `GcHeader` cast, which the address-classification ratchet forbids. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019WVcWKmYsUBnnFB7nBgbBJ
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds lean push and pop paths for eligible Array-subclass elements stores. It preserves full runtime fallbacks for growth, holes, empty stores, and restricted stores. Inline ChangesArray subclass elements paths
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The optimized Array-subclass pop path can read invalid metadata, use attacker-influenced data as a storage pointer, and bypass prototype-sensitive fallback behavior; this creates a concrete memory-safety and correctness risk that should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant ArrayPopLowering
participant ObjectMeta
participant ElementsStore
Caller->>ArrayPopLowering: lower sub.pop()
ArrayPopLowering->>ObjectMeta: load ObjectMeta.elements
ObjectMeta->>ElementsStore: resolve elements payload
ArrayPopLowering->>ElementsStore: read tail and decrement length
ElementsStore-->>Caller: return popped value
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…8984) * fix: preserve private field update semantics * chore: add private field fix changelog --------- Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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Merged. On the census baseline change — worth saying explicitly, since a baseline edit usually deserves suspicion: this one tightens. Four open-coded On the lean push/pop — the claim that the store reached through the meta slot is never a proxy and never a forwarding stub is what the whole optimisation rests on, so I did not take the unit tests as sufficient. #8976 was a real wrong-value bug in this exact chain that both a full unit suite and a 1386-file corpus differential missed, because it needed a specific access shape. So I re-ran the behavioural probe I built for that: All five match, including the nested-closure shape #8976 broke and the Validation — runtime 2781/0 and codegen 1341/0 ( One fix pushed: the fragment used the The ECS numbers are not re-measured here. |
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/array_pop.rs`:
- Around line 104-110: Update the branching around array_pop’s array admission
checks so only non-forwarded receivers with GC_TYPE_OBJECT are sent to the
elements probe; route all other failed checks directly to apop.slow. Ensure
ObjectHeader metadata is loaded only after this object-type gate, using the
existing is_object condition and labels.
- Around line 122-124: Update the metadata load in the array-pop code around
meta_addr, meta_slot, and meta to use the target pointer width: load I32 and
zero-extend to I64 on ILP32, while retaining the I64 load on 64-bit targets.
Follow the existing ObjectMeta consumer pattern for selecting and widening the
loaded pointer value.
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| let mut ok = blk.and(I1, ¬_fwd, &plain); | ||
| ok = blk.and(I1, &ok, &prototype_clean); | ||
| let array_ok = blk.and(I1, &ok, &is_array); | ||
| // A `GC_TYPE_OBJECT` receiver may be an elements-backed Array | ||
| // subclass; anything else keeps the runtime entry. | ||
| let is_object = blk.icmp_eq(I8, &gc_type, GC_TYPE_OBJECT_I8); | ||
| blk.cond_br(&array_ok, &len_label, &elem_label); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Gate the elements probe before loading ObjectHeader metadata.
Line 110 sends every non-plain-array heap value to apop.elements. This includes non-Object GC allocations. Lines 122-124 then read an ObjectHeader::meta slot before is_object can reject the value.
Branch only non-forwarded GC_TYPE_OBJECT receivers to the elements probe. Send every other failed array admission directly to apop.slow. This preserves the runtime fallback for dynamically mismatched receivers and prevents an invalid header-layout dereference.
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/array_pop.rs` around lines 104 - 110, Update
the branching around array_pop’s array admission checks so only non-forwarded
receivers with GC_TYPE_OBJECT are sent to the elements probe; route all other
failed checks directly to apop.slow. Ensure ObjectHeader metadata is loaded only
after this object-type gate, using the existing is_object condition and labels.
| let meta_addr = blk.add(I64, &handle, &meta_offset); | ||
| let meta_slot = blk.inttoptr(I64, &meta_addr); | ||
| let meta = blk.load(I64, &meta_slot); |
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Load the metadata pointer at the target pointer width.
object_meta_slot_offset_bytes returns offset 12 for ILP32, where ObjectHeader::meta is a four-byte pointer slot. This unconditional load(I64, ...) reads the following payload word too. The resulting inttoptr can target an invalid address on supported 32-bit targets.
Load I32 and zero-extend it to I64 for ILP32, as the other ObjectMeta consumers do.
Proposed fix
+ let meta_ptr_size = if crate::target_layout::target_is_ilp32(ctx.target_triple) {
+ 4
+ } else {
+ 8
+ };
let store = {
let blk = ctx.block();
// ...
- let meta = blk.load(I64, &meta_slot);
+ let meta_native = blk.load(
+ if meta_ptr_size == 4 { I32 } else { I64 },
+ &meta_slot,
+ );
+ let meta = if meta_ptr_size == 4 {
+ blk.zext(I32, &meta_native, I64)
+ } else {
+ meta_native
+ };📝 Committable suggestion
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| let meta_addr = blk.add(I64, &handle, &meta_offset); | |
| let meta_slot = blk.inttoptr(I64, &meta_addr); | |
| let meta = blk.load(I64, &meta_slot); | |
| let meta_ptr_size = if crate::target_layout::target_is_ilp32(ctx.target_triple) { | |
| 4 | |
| } else { | |
| 8 | |
| }; | |
| let meta_addr = blk.add(I64, &handle, &meta_offset); | |
| let meta_slot = blk.inttoptr(I64, &meta_addr); | |
| let meta_native = blk.load( | |
| if meta_ptr_size == 4 { I32 } else { I64 }, | |
| &meta_slot, | |
| ); | |
| let meta = if meta_ptr_size == 4 { | |
| blk.zext(I32, &meta_native, I64) | |
| } else { | |
| meta_native | |
| }; |
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/array_pop.rs` around lines 122 - 124, Update
the metadata load in the array-pop code around meta_addr, meta_slot, and meta to
use the target pointer width: load I32 and zero-extend to I64 on ILP32, while
retaining the I64 load on 64-bit targets. Follow the existing ObjectMeta
consumer pattern for selecting and widening the loaded pointer value.
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Follow-up to #8966/#8974/#8976. With the elements store as the representation, a fresh profile of the wolf-ecs twins showed the append/pop path re-validating a store that belongs to the instance:
elements_push3.8% +RuntimeHandleScope::push1.5% +js_array_pop_f645.1% (a runtime entry whose only job was to follow one pointer to the store and pop from it).What
Runtime — lean append and tail pop. The store is reached through the meta slot: never a proxy, never a forwarding stub, its header one read away, and an in-capacity append cannot allocate.
store_array_slot_resolved, length bump) — no handle scope, no owner/value rooting, no head write-back, none ofjs_array_push_f64's classification for an arbitrary caller pointer;Codegen — the inline pop tier resolves the payload.
sub.pop()failed the tier'sGC_TYPE_ARRAYgate (the receiver is the object) and called the runtime. AGC_TYPE_OBJECTreceiver now loads its meta record andObjectMeta.elements(word 12), validates that store exactly as a plain-Array receiver is validated, and the existing length/read/take blocks run on it through a payload phi.Cleanup the census asked for. Five inline tiers each recomputed
object_header_size_bytes(target) - pointer_sizeto reachObjectHeader::meta;object_meta_slot_offset_bytesderives it once, so the audited object-header-size callsite count drops 46 → 42. The new store header read usesaddr_class::try_read_gc_headerrather than a hand-rolled cast (the address-classification ratchet forbids those).Numbers (Mac mini, 11 alternating pairs, vs a freshly built
origin/main)Deltas are tight (add −9.4…−9.7 except one −11.8; entity −11.2…−11.4). Perry vs Node 26.5 on that host: 2.45× / 1.78× — the entity cycle drops under 2× for the first time in this campaign.
Verification
fill(value, start, end)and the nested-loop reproducer are token-identical; the subclass probes show only the three known pre-existing divergences (fillas an own key Array subclass instances: getOwnPropertyNames / for..in segfault; Object.keys leaks "length" and "fill" #8953,A.fromnot populating,constructoraftermap).cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib2780/0;RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings cargo check --workspace --all-targetsclean; census, addr-class, GC store-site inventory, file size, raw-handle debt (unchanged) all pass. Integration:issue_86552/2,issue_87734/4,issue_86903/3,issue_5898_array_pop_prototype1/1,array_subclass_fill_args1/1. (temp_root_operand_temporaries::string_literal_concat_operand_is_re_derived_below_the_allocating_siblingfails on plainorigin/maintoo — unrelated.)https://claude.ai/code/session_019WVcWKmYsUBnnFB7nBgbBJ
Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance
Arraysubclass append and pop operations with faster paths for common in-capacity cases.pop()support to elements-backedArraysubclasses.Bug Fixes
Tests