feat(intl): Segments view mode — answer a grapheme loop without materialising a record or a substring - #9870
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`call_overridden_iterator_next` minted a fresh 4-byte "next" key string on
every built-in iterator step, purely to run a by-name prototype lookup that
concluded nothing was patched. The `ITERATOR_PROTOTYPE_PTR == 0` early-out
that was supposed to prevent this is dead after the first iterator any
program allocates: every iterator allocator calls `attach_iterator_prototype`
-> `ensure_iterator_prototypes`, which materializes the tower.
Adds `prototype_next_is_canonical`: the prototype's own `next` slot holds a
closure whose native entry is the canonical thunk, and no accessor descriptor
is recorded for "next". Both reads are non-allocating. Any other state falls
through to the by-name path, unchanged.
This is the third-ranked site by count in the 2026-09-06 claude-code
allocation census (~122,880 x 32 B per 400-character reply), which had
attributed it to `Intl.Segmenter` substring copying. Caller walk in the
shipped binary `cc_relink/cc_int_0905`:
js_for_of_next+0xd0
-> dispatch_array_iterator_method_inner+0x218 (bl call_overridden_iterator_next)
-> call_overridden_iterator_next+0x67c (bl js_string_from_bytes_with_capacity)
-> string_storage_alloc
Measured on a relinked claude-code binary carrying this fix plus a
measurement-only hit/miss counter. Before the fix every probe allocated, so
`hits + byname` is the pre-fix count and `byname` is what survives:
400-char reply, run A 144,189 probes byname 0
400-char reply, run B 144,303 probes byname 0
3300-char reply 887,076 probes byname 0
`byname = 0` on every one of the 173 per-minor reports across the three runs:
the proof answers 100 % of probes on a real program, which is what rules out
the one silent failure mode (the accessor half is a per-key Bloom bit, so a
colliding accessor on the prototype would disable the fast path with no test
failing).
`cargo test -p perry-runtime --release --lib -- --test-threads=1`: 3,171
passed, 0 failed. Four sabotage arms, each failing only its named assertion:
removing the fast path entirely reads exactly 32,000 bytes over 1,000 probes;
dropping only the accessor half fails only the accessor test; dropping only
the native-entry comparison fails only the replaced-`next` test.
An integration arm for the allocation-free proof: compiles
`test-files/test_gap_iterator_prototype_next_patch.ts` and byte-compares
stdout against node v26.5.1, captured 2026-09-06 on this box.
Three of the lines are the ones that can only pass if the proof is exactly
right:
F-bound-copy 100,200 a `bind` of the original has the SAME native entry as
the builtin thunk but a different `this`; a proof that
compared native entries without first reading the
prototype's own slot would print `1,2`.
G-accessor 1,2 true `defineProperty(proto,"next",{get})` leaves the old
closure in the data slot, so the own read alone still
sees the canonical closure — only the per-key accessor
Bloom bit makes the proof decline.
H true a deleted `next` must throw a TypeError, never fall
through to the builtin advance.
The allocation-free proof reads the prototype's own `next` slot as a RAW value before deciding anything, so a number, a string, `undefined`, `null` and a plain object each have to defeat it and throw a TypeError rather than be mistaken for the builtin closure. Node v26.5.1 throws for all five; pinned in the integration arm.
The fragment was written before the issue existed and carried 9840, which is an unrelated open GC issue. PerryTS#9846 is the filed report for this defect.
…ialising it
Five `#[no_mangle]` entry points that let a compiled
`for (let {segment: O} of X.segment(q))` loop read what it needs from a cursor
over the input instead of building a record and a substring per grapheme:
`open`, `next`, `code_point_at`, `segment` (materialise-on-miss) and
`regexp_test`. The interface is `INTERFACE_segments_view.md` §9, agreed with
the compiler lane whose lowering is PR PerryTS#9859.
Nothing here constructs a `Segments`: `open` takes the segmenter and the input.
That is why the view mode did not depend on the lazy-`Segments` change measured
and refuted separately — `build_segments` stays eager and simply stops being
reached for the loop that matters.
The cursor is an ordinary GC object whose slot 0 holds the input as a traced
value, so the collector rewrites it like any other field: no registered root, no
side table, no new scanner, and no new rooting rule for codegen. Every entry
point re-derives its `&str` at entry and drops it before returning; `next` and
`code_point_at` allocate nothing at all.
Three contracts that are easy to get subtly wrong, so each has a test:
* `open` declines with NO observable effect and in a fixed order — in
particular an input that is not already a string primitive is refused BEFORE
any coercion, because `build_segments` runs user `toString` and throws on a
Symbol, and the compiler evaluates `X.segment(q)` itself on a decline.
* `code_point_at`'s `k` is bounded by the SEGMENT, not the input: `k` past the
segment end is `undefined` even though the input has more code units there. A
view that clamped to the input would silently answer the next grapheme.
* `regexp_test` matches a bounded haystack whose bounds ARE the string's ends,
so `^`/`$`/lookbehind stay segment-local. It declines (three-valued
`undefined`) for a global or sticky regex, whose `test` is stateful in
`lastIndex`, and for a patched `RegExp.prototype.test`.
Tests: 8 unit tests including the falsifier — 200 `next` + `code_point_at`
steps move `arena_in_use_bytes` by ZERO with the minor-cycle count pinned — and
a walk compared against `graphemes(true)` on combining marks, a ZWJ sequence and
a regional-indicator pair. `cargo test -p perry-runtime --release --lib`: 3,179
passed, 0 failed.
Two sabotage arms, and one of them refused to fire, which is reported rather
than hidden: replacing the bounded haystack with a start offset FAILS
`regexp_test_matches_the_materialised_call_...`, so that contract is proven
load-bearing; storing the pre-allocation input value instead of re-reading the
rooted handle passes everything, including under `PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1`,
because `arena_alloc_gc` does not poll the collector — `gc_check_trigger()` runs
at a handful of explicit sites and arena allocation is not one of them. The
rooting stays as defensive practice; it is NOT demonstrated to be load-bearing,
and the interface says so.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
The compiler emits calls to `js_segments_view_*` only when the tier fires, so without a reference the bundle link's stub localization can drop them before the lowering that needs them is ever compiled. Same reason and same shape as `KEEP_JS_FOR_OF_NEXT` in `collection_iter_object.rs`. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds allocation-free iterator prototype probing and an ChangesIterator override probing
Intl.Segmenter view mode
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new runtime entry points contain memory-safety hazards when used, and one supported build configuration fails to compile. These issues should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant IteratorStep
participant CanonicalProbe
participant PrototypeLookup
IteratorStep->>CanonicalProbe: check canonical next
CanonicalProbe-->>IteratorStep: use builtin path
IteratorStep->>PrototypeLookup: resolve patched next when needed
sequenceDiagram
participant GraphemeLoop
participant SegmenterView
participant RegexRuntime
GraphemeLoop->>SegmenterView: open cursor
SegmenterView-->>GraphemeLoop: return cursor or decline
GraphemeLoop->>SegmenterView: advance and inspect segment
SegmenterView->>RegexRuntime: test bounded segment
RegexRuntime-->>GraphemeLoop: return match result or decline
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580-581: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRemove the unsupported sabotage-switch reference.
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In `@changelog.d/9860-intl-segmenter-view-mode.md`:
- Line 9: Add the text language identifier to the fenced code block containing
the signature list, changing the opening fence to specify text while leaving the
block contents unchanged.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs`:
- Around line 168-179: Update js_segments_view_open to root the segmenter with
RuntimeHandleScope before any predicate calls, and re-derive the raw
ObjectHeader pointer immediately before each predicate that may access it.
Ensure all segmenter checks, including intl_kind_is_segmenter,
segment_method_is_canonical, and granularity_is_grapheme, use a refreshed
pointer so moving GC cannot invalidate obj.
- Around line 316-319: In the segment materialization flow, update the closure
around with_input so text[start..end] is copied into owned Rust storage before
calling js_string_from_bytes; pass the owned bytes to js_string_from_bytes
instead of the borrowed seg pointer, while preserving the existing segment range
and return behavior.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/regex_proto_thunks.rs`:
- Around line 329-330: Align js_segments_view_regexp_test with
regexp_prototype_test_is_canonical so no-default-features builds compile: either
provide an ungated fallback for the helper that returns undefined, or make the
helper available without regex-engine and return false when the feature is
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs`:
- Around line 580-581: Remove the unsupported PERRY_SABOTAGE_SEGVIEW
sabotage-switch reference from the comment near the SegmentsView cursor
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| let obj = obj as *mut ObjectHeader; | ||
| if !intl_kind_is_segmenter(obj) { | ||
| bump(&DECLINE_NOT_SEGMENTER); | ||
| return 0.0; | ||
| } | ||
| if !segment_method_is_canonical(obj) { | ||
| bump(&DECLINE_SEGMENT_PATCHED); | ||
| return 0.0; | ||
| } | ||
| // 2. grapheme only (§4): a resumable word cursor is not equivalent to | ||
| // segmenting the whole string, and nothing measured needs one. | ||
| if !granularity_is_grapheme(obj) { |
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Root segmenter across all js_segments_view_open predicates
Each predicate calls interned, whose first use can allocate. A moving GC can invalidate raw obj before js_object_get_field_by_name reads it, including in the first predicate. Root segmenter with RuntimeHandleScope and re-derive obj before each predicate. Apply this once to js_segments_view_open.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs` around lines 168 - 179,
Update js_segments_view_open to root the segmenter with RuntimeHandleScope
before any predicate calls, and re-derive the raw ObjectHeader pointer
immediately before each predicate that may access it. Ensure all segmenter
checks, including intl_kind_is_segmenter, segment_method_is_canonical, and
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| let made = with_input(c, |text| { | ||
| let seg = &text[start..end]; | ||
| crate::string::js_string_from_bytes(seg.as_ptr(), seg.len() as u32) | ||
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Copy the segment before js_string_from_bytes. For non-SSO inputs, with_input returns a borrowed view into the cursor's input. js_string_from_bytes allocates before copying its source bytes, so a moving collection can leave seg.as_ptr() stale and make materialization read invalid bytes or crash. Copy text[start..end] into owned Rust storage before the call.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs` around lines 316 - 319, In
the segment materialization flow, update the closure around with_input so
text[start..end] is copied into owned Rust storage before calling
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| #[cfg(feature = "regex-engine")] | ||
| pub(crate) fn regexp_prototype_test_is_canonical(value: f64) -> bool { |
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Align the feature gates for the RegExp segment helper.
regex-engine is optional, but js_segments_view_regexp_test is unconditional and calls regexp_prototype_test_is_canonical, which exists only with that feature. A --no-default-features build can therefore fail to compile. Add an ungated fallback that returns undefined, or make the canonicality helper return false without regex-engine.
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330, Align js_segments_view_regexp_test with regexp_prototype_test_is_canonical
so no-default-features builds compile: either provide an ungated fallback for
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…ising nothing v1 bound the segment with `_segment` once per step and left the body alone, so it removed the record and kept the substring. v2 rewrites the USES: on a site where the classifier found nothing that needs the string, the accepted path materialises nothing at all and the loop reaches zero allocations per grapheme. That is where the remaining time is. perry-b4's I2 table puts ink's wrapText subtree at 80.2 % of active main-thread CPU (`E46`/`tI1` 4,238 of 5,152 samples, `u_N_24_6` 4,131 — about 4.1 s of a 5.2 s turn), with no dominant collector leaf left; the collector's share is minors landing inside this loop. v1 does not reach that. v2 does. Two substitutions, with very different risk. `O.codePointAt(k)` becomes `js_segments_view_code_point_at(cursor, k)` — a pure expression swap. `k` is unchanged: it is segment-relative and segment-bounded by the runtime's contract (§9d), the same bound the materialised substring had. `recv.test(O)` is the hard one. Read from PerryTS#9870 rather than assumed: `js_segments_view_regexp_test(cursor, regex)` — CURSOR FIRST — returns true, false, or `undefined` meaning "I declined" (global/sticky regex, patched `RegExp.prototype.test` or an own `test`), and the runtime does NOT fall back internally, so the compiler must. `recv` is arbitrary — in cc it is `g54.default()`, an opaque call that must run exactly once per evaluation — so it cannot be repeated in the fallback arm. The emitted form is a pure expression, so no control flow is restructured: Sequence([ LocalSet(t_recv, <recv>), // opaque call, ONCE LocalSet(t_res, _regexp_test(cursor, t_recv)), t_res === undefined ? t_recv.test(_segment(cursor)) : t_res ]) The materialisation is inside the decline arm, so the accepted path allocates nothing. Every rewritten use is GUARDED, not replaced: `cur != 0 ? <view form> : <original>`. The loop body is shared between the accepted and declined paths, so the original expression must survive for the decline arm, where `O` holds a real string. On acceptance `O` is bound to `undefined` and never read, because every use takes the view arm — which is what makes the accepted path allocation-free without duplicating the body. A site with even one unanswerable use stays on v1: paying per-use guards on top of a materialisation that happens anyway is strictly worse. WHAT SUBSTITUTES FOR THE TESTS THIS COULD NOT BE RUN AGAINST. This box cannot build (its target was deleted to recover disk), so `rustfmt` and reading are the only gates. The pass therefore rewrites a CLONE of the body and keeps it only if the emission matches the classification exactly — same `code_point_at` count, same `regexp_test` count. If they disagree, some use was not rewritten and would read an unbound segment on the accepted path, so the clone is discarded and v1 is used. The check is the mechanism, not a comment. `[segview-lower]` now reports which arm was taken, so classifier and emission can be compared on the real bundle: [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=0 code_point_at=1 regexp_test=2 declined=none (v2: …) [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=1 code_point_at=0 regexp_test=0 declined=none (v1: …) Decline paths are unchanged. Three HIR-level tests added beside the v1 ones. NOT COMPILED AND NOT RUN — see the commit message above and §v2 of HANDOFF_segview_e2e.md for exactly what is unverified. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
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…ising nothing v1 bound the segment with `_segment` once per step and left the body alone, so it removed the record and kept the substring. v2 rewrites the USES: on a site where the classifier found nothing that needs the string, the accepted path materialises nothing at all and the loop reaches zero allocations per grapheme. That is where the remaining time is. perry-b4's I2 table puts ink's wrapText subtree at 80.2 % of active main-thread CPU (`E46`/`tI1` 4,238 of 5,152 samples, `u_N_24_6` 4,131 — about 4.1 s of a 5.2 s turn), with no dominant collector leaf left; the collector's share is minors landing inside this loop. v1 does not reach that. v2 does. Two substitutions, with very different risk. `O.codePointAt(k)` becomes `js_segments_view_code_point_at(cursor, k)` — a pure expression swap. `k` is unchanged: it is segment-relative and segment-bounded by the runtime's contract (§9d), the same bound the materialised substring had. `recv.test(O)` is the hard one. Read from PerryTS#9870 rather than assumed: `js_segments_view_regexp_test(cursor, regex)` — CURSOR FIRST — returns true, false, or `undefined` meaning "I declined" (global/sticky regex, patched `RegExp.prototype.test` or an own `test`), and the runtime does NOT fall back internally, so the compiler must. `recv` is arbitrary — in cc it is `g54.default()`, an opaque call that must run exactly once per evaluation — so it cannot be repeated in the fallback arm. The emitted form is a pure expression, so no control flow is restructured: Sequence([ LocalSet(t_recv, <recv>), // opaque call, ONCE LocalSet(t_res, _regexp_test(cursor, t_recv)), t_res === undefined ? t_recv.test(_segment(cursor)) : t_res ]) The materialisation is inside the decline arm, so the accepted path allocates nothing. Every rewritten use is GUARDED, not replaced: `cur != 0 ? <view form> : <original>`. The loop body is shared between the accepted and declined paths, so the original expression must survive for the decline arm, where `O` holds a real string. On acceptance `O` is bound to `undefined` and never read, because every use takes the view arm — which is what makes the accepted path allocation-free without duplicating the body. A site with even one unanswerable use stays on v1: paying per-use guards on top of a materialisation that happens anyway is strictly worse. WHAT SUBSTITUTES FOR THE TESTS THIS COULD NOT BE RUN AGAINST. This box cannot build (its target was deleted to recover disk), so `rustfmt` and reading are the only gates. The pass therefore rewrites a CLONE of the body and keeps it only if the emission matches the classification exactly — same `code_point_at` count, same `regexp_test` count. If they disagree, some use was not rewritten and would read an unbound segment on the accepted path, so the clone is discarded and v1 is used. The check is the mechanism, not a comment. `[segview-lower]` now reports which arm was taken, so classifier and emission can be compared on the real bundle: [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=0 code_point_at=1 regexp_test=2 declined=none (v2: …) [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=1 code_point_at=0 regexp_test=0 declined=none (v1: …) Decline paths are unchanged. Three HIR-level tests added beside the v1 ones. NOT COMPILED AND NOT RUN — see the commit message above and §v2 of HANDOFF_segview_e2e.md for exactly what is unverified. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
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…ew-mode regex path #9870 inserted `regexp_test_str_bounded` between `js_regexp_test` and its own `#[cfg(feature = "regex-engine")]` + `#[no_mangle]`, so both attributes silently re-targeted onto the new function. Two consequences, neither visible to a workspace build (feature unification turns the engine on): `js_regexp_test` lost its gate and failed to compile without the engine, and a `pub(crate)` Rust fn picked up a `#[no_mangle]` it must not have. Attributes reattached to the function each belongs to. `js_segments_view_regexp_test` reaches two engine-gated helpers. It is `#[no_mangle]`, so it cannot itself be gated out — the symbol has to exist in every configuration or a binary emitting a call fails to link. Its regex-dependent path is gated instead, and the engine-off arm declines, which is the same contract its other declines already have. Also classifies #9870's eight new PERRY_SEGVIEW_DIAG counters as not_a_gc_pointer: plain AtomicU64 tallies written only via fetch_add.
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…ising nothing v1 bound the segment with `_segment` once per step and left the body alone, so it removed the record and kept the substring. v2 rewrites the USES: on a site where the classifier found nothing that needs the string, the accepted path materialises nothing at all and the loop reaches zero allocations per grapheme. That is where the remaining time is. perry-b4's I2 table puts ink's wrapText subtree at 80.2 % of active main-thread CPU (`E46`/`tI1` 4,238 of 5,152 samples, `u_N_24_6` 4,131 — about 4.1 s of a 5.2 s turn), with no dominant collector leaf left; the collector's share is minors landing inside this loop. v1 does not reach that. v2 does. Two substitutions, with very different risk. `O.codePointAt(k)` becomes `js_segments_view_code_point_at(cursor, k)` — a pure expression swap. `k` is unchanged: it is segment-relative and segment-bounded by the runtime's contract (§9d), the same bound the materialised substring had. `recv.test(O)` is the hard one. Read from PerryTS#9870 rather than assumed: `js_segments_view_regexp_test(cursor, regex)` — CURSOR FIRST — returns true, false, or `undefined` meaning "I declined" (global/sticky regex, patched `RegExp.prototype.test` or an own `test`), and the runtime does NOT fall back internally, so the compiler must. `recv` is arbitrary — in cc it is `g54.default()`, an opaque call that must run exactly once per evaluation — so it cannot be repeated in the fallback arm. The emitted form is a pure expression, so no control flow is restructured: Sequence([ LocalSet(t_recv, <recv>), // opaque call, ONCE LocalSet(t_res, _regexp_test(cursor, t_recv)), t_res === undefined ? t_recv.test(_segment(cursor)) : t_res ]) The materialisation is inside the decline arm, so the accepted path allocates nothing. Every rewritten use is GUARDED, not replaced: `cur != 0 ? <view form> : <original>`. The loop body is shared between the accepted and declined paths, so the original expression must survive for the decline arm, where `O` holds a real string. On acceptance `O` is bound to `undefined` and never read, because every use takes the view arm — which is what makes the accepted path allocation-free without duplicating the body. A site with even one unanswerable use stays on v1: paying per-use guards on top of a materialisation that happens anyway is strictly worse. WHAT SUBSTITUTES FOR THE TESTS THIS COULD NOT BE RUN AGAINST. This box cannot build (its target was deleted to recover disk), so `rustfmt` and reading are the only gates. The pass therefore rewrites a CLONE of the body and keeps it only if the emission matches the classification exactly — same `code_point_at` count, same `regexp_test` count. If they disagree, some use was not rewritten and would read an unbound segment on the accepted path, so the clone is discarded and v1 is used. The check is the mechanism, not a comment. `[segview-lower]` now reports which arm was taken, so classifier and emission can be compared on the real bundle: [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=0 code_point_at=1 regexp_test=2 declined=none (v2: …) [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=1 code_point_at=0 regexp_test=0 declined=none (v1: …) Decline paths are unchanged. Three HIR-level tests added beside the v1 ones. NOT COMPILED AND NOT RUN — see the commit message above and §v2 of HANDOFF_segview_e2e.md for exactly what is unverified. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
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…ising nothing v1 bound the segment with `_segment` once per step and left the body alone, so it removed the record and kept the substring. v2 rewrites the USES: on a site where the classifier found nothing that needs the string, the accepted path materialises nothing at all and the loop reaches zero allocations per grapheme. That is where the remaining time is. perry-b4's I2 table puts ink's wrapText subtree at 80.2 % of active main-thread CPU (`E46`/`tI1` 4,238 of 5,152 samples, `u_N_24_6` 4,131 — about 4.1 s of a 5.2 s turn), with no dominant collector leaf left; the collector's share is minors landing inside this loop. v1 does not reach that. v2 does. Two substitutions, with very different risk. `O.codePointAt(k)` becomes `js_segments_view_code_point_at(cursor, k)` — a pure expression swap. `k` is unchanged: it is segment-relative and segment-bounded by the runtime's contract (§9d), the same bound the materialised substring had. `recv.test(O)` is the hard one. Read from #9870 rather than assumed: `js_segments_view_regexp_test(cursor, regex)` — CURSOR FIRST — returns true, false, or `undefined` meaning "I declined" (global/sticky regex, patched `RegExp.prototype.test` or an own `test`), and the runtime does NOT fall back internally, so the compiler must. `recv` is arbitrary — in cc it is `g54.default()`, an opaque call that must run exactly once per evaluation — so it cannot be repeated in the fallback arm. The emitted form is a pure expression, so no control flow is restructured: Sequence([ LocalSet(t_recv, <recv>), // opaque call, ONCE LocalSet(t_res, _regexp_test(cursor, t_recv)), t_res === undefined ? t_recv.test(_segment(cursor)) : t_res ]) The materialisation is inside the decline arm, so the accepted path allocates nothing. Every rewritten use is GUARDED, not replaced: `cur != 0 ? <view form> : <original>`. The loop body is shared between the accepted and declined paths, so the original expression must survive for the decline arm, where `O` holds a real string. On acceptance `O` is bound to `undefined` and never read, because every use takes the view arm — which is what makes the accepted path allocation-free without duplicating the body. A site with even one unanswerable use stays on v1: paying per-use guards on top of a materialisation that happens anyway is strictly worse. WHAT SUBSTITUTES FOR THE TESTS THIS COULD NOT BE RUN AGAINST. This box cannot build (its target was deleted to recover disk), so `rustfmt` and reading are the only gates. The pass therefore rewrites a CLONE of the body and keeps it only if the emission matches the classification exactly — same `code_point_at` count, same `regexp_test` count. If they disagree, some use was not rewritten and would read an unbound segment on the accepted path, so the clone is discarded and v1 is used. The check is the mechanism, not a comment. `[segview-lower]` now reports which arm was taken, so classifier and emission can be compared on the real bundle: [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=0 code_point_at=1 regexp_test=2 declined=none (v2: …) [segview-lower] <rec> open=1 next=1 segment=1 code_point_at=0 regexp_test=0 declined=none (v1: …) Decline paths are unchanged. Three HIR-level tests added beside the v1 ones. NOT COMPILED AND NOT RUN — see the commit message above and §v2 of HANDOFF_segview_e2e.md for exactly what is unverified. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp (cherry picked from commit 089cb3b)
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The runtime half of the
Intl.Segmenterview mode. PR #9859 (the compilerlowering, default OFF) depends on these symbols; this side is inert until that
one emits calls to it.
What it is
Five
#[no_mangle] extern "C"entry points that let a compiledfor (let {segment: O} of X.segment(q))loop read what it needs from a cursorover the input, instead of building a record and a substring per grapheme:
Why it matters: that loop — ink's
wrapText-> JSwrap-ansi->string-width->
Intl.Segmenter— is 60-85 % of claude-code's active main-thread CPUacross four sampled captures, and allocates ~420,000 times per 400-character
reply (a 48-byte record and two 32-byte substrings per grapheme) while reading
one code point per grapheme and retaining nothing.
The rooting model, which is the part to review
The cursor is an ordinary GC object whose slot 0 holds the input string as a
traced value, so the collector marks and rewrites it like any other object
field: no registered root, no side table, no new scanner, and no new rooting
rule for codegen — the compiler holds the cursor in an ordinary rooted local,
exactly as it holds a for-of iterator today. Every entry point re-derives its
&strfrom that slot on entry and drops it before returning, so no addressderived from the input outlives a single entry point.
Three contracts that are easy to get subtly wrong
opendeclines with no observable effect, in a fixed order: not apristine
Intl.Segmenter,segmentreplaced, granularity notgrapheme,input not already a string primitive (checked before any coercion —
build_segmentsruns usertoStringand throws on a Symbol, and the compilerevaluates
X.segment(q)itself on a decline), input not valid UTF-8, orempty. It never throws and allocates nothing before the final step.
code_point_at'skis bounded by the SEGMENT, not the input.kpastthe segment's end is
undefinedeven though the input has more code unitsthere; a view that clamped to the input would silently answer the next
grapheme. It decodes from the cursor's byte offset, so
k = 0is O(1) —calling
js_string_code_point_aton the input instead walks from index 0 onany non-ASCII string and makes the loop quadratic.
regexp_testmatches a bounded haystack whose bounds ARE the string'sends, so
^,$and lookbehind are segment-local — the same answer thematerialised call gives, not "a match starting at an offset". It is
three-valued:
undefinedmeans "I decline, materialise and call the normalpath", returned for a global or sticky regex (whose
testis stateful inlastIndex) and for a patchedRegExp.prototype.test, proven unpatched bythe same allocation-free own-slot + accessor-Bloom-bit technique as
iterator_prototypes::prototype_next_is_canonical.Tests
cargo test -p perry-runtime --release --lib: 3,179 passed, 0 failed.Eight new unit tests, including:
next+code_point_atsteps movearena_in_use_bytesby zero, with the minor-cycle count pinned across thewindow so a collection cannot manufacture the zero;
graphemes(true)on combining marks, a ZWJ sequenceand a regional-indicator pair;
code_point_atagainstjs_string_code_point_aton the materialised segment,including the low-surrogate half;
rather than coercing or throwing.
Sabotage — and one arm refused to fire, which is reported, not hidden
regexp_test_matches_the_materialised_call_and_declines_when_stateful. Thatcontract is proven load-bearing.
passes everything, including under
PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=7 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1(the stress mode whose purpose is to move anunrooted value on first exposure). The reason is structural:
arena_alloc_gcdoes not poll the collector —gc_check_trigger()runsat a handful of explicit sites and arena allocation is not one of them. The
rooting stays as defensive practice (this family of bug appears the moment a
helper starts calling user code), but it is not demonstrated to be
load-bearing here, and a reviewer should read it that way.
Not included, deliberately
No lowering, no tier, no behaviour change: with #9859 off, nothing calls these.
build_segmentsstays eager — a lazySegmentswas built, measured and refutedseparately (flat at 400 chars, 0 to −10 % at 3300), and the view mode never
needed it because
opentakes the segmenter and the input and never constructsa
Segments.https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance
nextmethods are unchanged.Bug Fixes
nextvalues are handled correctly.