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The runtime half of the Intl.Segmenter view mode. PR #9859 (the compiler
lowering, 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 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:

js_segments_view_open(segmenter, input)      -> cursor | 0.0
js_segments_view_next(cursor)                -> 1.0 | 0.0          (allocation-free)
js_segments_view_code_point_at(cursor, k)    -> number | undefined (allocation-free)
js_segments_view_segment(cursor)             -> string             (materialise-on-miss)
js_segments_view_regexp_test(cursor, regex)  -> true | false | undefined

Why it matters: that loop — ink's wrapText -> JS wrap-ansi -> string-width
-> Intl.Segmenter — is 60-85 % of claude-code's active main-thread CPU
across 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
&str from that slot on entry and drops it before returning, so no address
derived from the input outlives a single entry point
.

Three contracts that are easy to get subtly wrong

  • open declines with no observable effect, in a fixed order: not a
    pristine Intl.Segmenter, segment replaced, granularity not grapheme,
    input not already a string primitive (checked before any coercion —
    build_segments runs user toString and throws on a Symbol, and the compiler
    evaluates X.segment(q) itself on a decline), input not valid UTF-8, or
    empty. It never throws and allocates nothing before the final step.
  • code_point_at's k is bounded by the SEGMENT, not the input. k past
    the segment's 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. It decodes from the cursor's byte offset, so k = 0 is O(1) —
    calling js_string_code_point_at on the input instead walks from index 0 on
    any non-ASCII string and makes the loop quadratic.
  • regexp_test matches a bounded haystack whose bounds ARE the string's
    ends
    , so ^, $ and lookbehind are segment-local — the same answer the
    materialised call gives, not "a match starting at an offset". It is
    three-valued: undefined means "I decline, materialise and call the normal
    path", returned for a global or sticky regex (whose test is stateful in
    lastIndex) and for a patched RegExp.prototype.test, proven unpatched by
    the 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:

  • the falsifier — 200 next + code_point_at steps move
    arena_in_use_bytes by zero, with the minor-cycle count pinned across the
    window so a collection cannot manufacture the zero;
  • a walk compared against graphemes(true) on combining marks, a ZWJ sequence
    and a regional-indicator pair;
  • code_point_at against js_string_code_point_at on the materialised segment,
    including the low-surrogate half;
  • every decline in the list above, including that a Symbol/object input declines
    rather than coercing or throwing.

Sabotage — and one arm refused to fire, which is reported, not hidden

  • Replacing the bounded haystack with a start offset fails
    regexp_test_matches_the_materialised_call_and_declines_when_stateful. 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_SEED=7 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1 (the stress mode whose purpose is to move an
    unrooted value on first exposure). The reason is structural:
    arena_alloc_gc does not poll the collectorgc_check_trigger() runs
    at 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_segments stays eager — a lazy Segments was built, measured and refuted
separately (flat at 400 chars, 0 to −10 % at 3300), and the view mode never
needed it because open takes the segmenter and the input and never constructs
a Segments.

https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Reduced allocations during built-in iterator operations when their next methods are unchanged.
    • Improved grapheme-segment iteration and related regex checks by avoiding unnecessary intermediate objects and strings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Iterator overrides, accessors, deleted methods, and non-callable next values are handled correctly.
    • Grapheme segmentation correctly declines unsupported or customized configurations while preserving expected behavior.

Ralph Küpper and others added 6 commits September 6, 2026 06:35
`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
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Walkthrough

The change adds allocation-free iterator prototype probing and an Intl.Segmenter grapheme view mode. The runtime adds traced cursor entry points, bounded regular-expression matching, canonicality checks, diagnostics, and regression tests.

Changes

Iterator override probing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical iterator probe
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/iterator_prototypes.rs, changelog.d/9846-iterator-next-override-probe-allocation.md
Canonical built-in next methods now use prototype slot and accessor checks without allocating. Modified methods use the existing lookup path.
Iterator override validation
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/iterator_prototypes.rs, crates/perry/tests/issue_9846_iterator_prototype_next_patch.rs, test-files/test_gap_iterator_prototype_next_patch.ts
Tests cover patched, restored, accessor-backed, deleted, bound, and non-callable methods across iterator families.

Intl.Segmenter view mode

Layer / File(s) Summary
Segmenter cursor and entry points
crates/perry-runtime/src/intl.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs
The runtime adds a traced cursor and five entry points for opening, advancing, reading code points, materialising segments, and reporting diagnostics.
Segment-local regular-expression matching
crates/perry-runtime/src/object/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/regex_proto_thunks.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/regex.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs
Canonical RegExp.prototype.test detection and bounded matching support segment-local anchors and decline for stateful patterns.
Segmenter validation and measurements
crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs, changelog.d/9860-intl-segmenter-view-mode.md
Tests and documentation cover segmentation agreement, rooting, zero allocation during iteration, decline behavior, bounded code-point access, and segment-local anchors.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fe057

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.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IteratorStep
  participant CanonicalProbe
  participant PrototypeLookup
  IteratorStep->>CanonicalProbe: check canonical next
  CanonicalProbe-->>IteratorStep: use builtin path
  IteratorStep->>PrototypeLookup: resolve patched next when needed
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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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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding an Intl.Segmenter segments view mode that avoids materializing records and substrings.
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580-581: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the unsupported sabotage-switch reference. PERRY_SABOTAGE_SEGVIEW appears only in this comment. No implementation reads it, so the documented validation method cannot run as described.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/intl/segments_view.rs` around lines 580 - 581,
Remove the unsupported PERRY_SABOTAGE_SEGVIEW sabotage-switch reference from the
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Inline comments:
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
disabled.

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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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`for (let {segment: O} of X.segment(q))` loop never lets the record or `O`
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a language to the fenced code block.

markdownlint reports MD040 for this block. Use text, because the content is a signature list.

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Comment on lines +168 to +179
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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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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
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granularity_is_grapheme, use a refreshed pointer so moving GC cannot invalidate
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Comment on lines +316 to +319
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
js_string_from_bytes; pass the owned bytes to js_string_from_bytes instead of
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Comment on lines +329 to +330
#[cfg(feature = "regex-engine")]
pub(crate) fn regexp_prototype_test_is_canonical(value: f64) -> bool {

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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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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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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/regex_proto_thunks.rs` around lines 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 disabled.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
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proggeramlug pushed a commit to proggeramlug/perry that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…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
proggeramlug pushed a commit to proggeramlug/perry that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…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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Back to draft (campaign coordinator, 2026-09-06 15:58 CEST): the regex.rs hunk inserts regexp_test_str_bounded between #[cfg(feature = "regex-engine")] #[no_mangle] and pub extern "C" fn js_regexp_test, so the two attributes now decorate the new pub(crate) fn and js_regexp_test has neither. Verified on perrymaster: nm -g libperry_runtime.a built from this branch lacks T js_regexp_test (present on main), so any bundle that lowers a static RegExpTest (perry-codegen expr/instance_misc1.rs:1226) fails at link; and cargo build --release -p perry (default features, no regex-engine) fails with 7 errors because the un-gated js_regexp_test references gated items and intl/segments_view.rs:359/366 reference items configured out. cargo test -p perry-runtime did not see it because the -static crates unify the feature on.

Fix: restore the attributes on js_regexp_test; give regexp_test_str_bounded its own #[cfg(feature = "regex-engine")]; give js_segments_view_regexp_test a feature-off arm that declines. Gate to add to the PR: cargo build --release -p perry with default features, and an nm check that the archive still exports js_regexp_test. Re-ready when green.

proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…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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Landed on main via merge train #9888. Validated as a tree: 64/64 lint gates, and perry-runtime/codegen/hir/stdlib all green (5,920 tests, 0 failures). Thanks!

proggeramlug pushed a commit to proggeramlug/perry that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…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
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…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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