perf(runtime): stop re-deriving the receiver on every dynamic-key read (−19%) - #10570
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`o[k]` costs 674 instructions per access — in a loop, with a constant key, on a two-property object — against node's ~4.5. It does not amortize: every iteration pays the full lookup. `prop_read` is the second most common construct in real TypeScript at 258 per 1k lines across a 1.6M-line corpus, and dynamic-key access is how every map-like object and dispatch table reads. Profiled with symbols, three of the costs are the same shape as the array-push work: a helper re-deriving per access something already established. 1. `keys_find_slot_by_bytes` ran `clean_arr_ptr` — allocator-ownership plus forwarding classification — on `descriptor.keys`, 16.2% of the loop. That field is maintained BY THE COLLECTOR: when the keys array moves, `shapes::scan_shape_table_rekey_mut` writes the forwarded address back into every descriptor record in the family (`(*record).keys = addr as u64`), and a descriptor whose keys array died is pruned in the same pass. So the pointer read out of a live descriptor already IS the resolved live head. The resolved entry deliberately delegates back to the original for key_count >= KEYS_INDEX_THRESHOLD, where the indexed path owns its own receiver handling. 2. `try_data_get_bytes` asked `is_process_env_ptr` on every access, which reads a thread-local to answer "is this process.env?" — `_tlv_get_addr` was 14.1% of the loop with half of it from here. A sticky process-global latch means the thread-local is touched only once such an object exists. 3. `is_anon_shape_class_id` took an RwLock READ GUARD on every access — 16.1%, the largest single frame left after (1). A guard is an atomic read-modify-write on a lock word shared by every thread in the image, paid to consult a set written only from module init. It is now answered from a lock-free open-addressed mirror. 674.1 -> 546.0 instructions per access, -19.0%, both arms built from this commit's parent. Measured by differencing two probes that differ only in access count, inside each binary, so driver dispatch and code layout cancel before the arms are compared; the bare-loop control reads 0.06 and -0.11, and callback / `new` / object-literal controls are flat to two decimals. The mirror is sound because the set is INSERT-ONLY — the registrar only ever calls `insert`, nothing removes — so an entry once published stays valid for the life of the image and an open-addressed table needs no reclamation scheme. Slot 0 is the empty sentinel and the registrar rejects class id 0. An insert that exhausts its probe run sets an overflow flag, after which a miss no longer proves absence and falls back to the locked set. It lives in the class IMAGE, beside `parent_dense`, NOT in a process-global: `ANON_SHAPE_CLASS_IDS` is an `ImageTable` and every access resolves through `current()`, so a process-global mirror would answer one image's question out of another image's registrations. The process-global version measured -24.3% and was wrong; this one is -19.0% and is not. Two things that did NOT work, recorded so they are not retried: * A sticky "is the anon-shape set empty?" latch measured ZERO. Object literals ARE anon shapes, so the flag is true in essentially every real program and the lock was taken anyway. That is why this is a mirror and not a latch. * Caching the resolved slot against the key was considered and dropped: a cached key pointer is a heap pointer whose address can be recycled, which would produce a WRONG slot rather than a miss, and it would need its own GC root scanner. Removing the re-derivations gets most of it with none of that.
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- Around line 1-60: Add a materialized environment-object case using a local env
reference initialized from process.env, then dynamically read and log the PATH
property through that reference. Place it alongside the existing dynamic-key
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| // Dynamic-key property reads, `o[k]`, across the receiver shapes the fast path | ||
| // in `native_get::try_data_get_bytes` classifies — and the mutations that must | ||
| // invalidate what it reads. | ||
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| // Three per-access re-derivations were removed behind this: the keys array was | ||
| // re-resolved through `clean_arr_ptr` although the collector maintains | ||
| // `ShapeDescriptor::keys`; a thread-local was read to answer "is this | ||
| // process.env?"; and an RwLock read guard was taken to ask whether the | ||
| // receiver's class id is an anon shape. The last is answered from a per-IMAGE | ||
| // lock-free mirror, so anything that depends on the anon-shape verdict | ||
| // (`.constructor`, `Object.getPrototypeOf`) is exercised here too. | ||
| const plain: any = { a: 1, b: "two", c: true }; | ||
| for (const k of ["a", "b", "c", "missing"]) console.log("plain", k, String(plain[k])); | ||
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| // Anon shape: an object literal's `.constructor` must still be Object, which | ||
| // is the verdict the mirror now answers. | ||
| console.log("ctor is Object:", plain.constructor === Object); | ||
| console.log("proto is Object.prototype:", Object.getPrototypeOf(plain) === Object.prototype); | ||
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| // Key added after first read: the shape changes, so the cached keys array must | ||
| // not be reused. | ||
| const grown: any = { x: 1 }; | ||
| console.log("before add", String(grown.y)); | ||
| grown.y = 42; | ||
| console.log("after add", String(grown.y)); | ||
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| // Key deleted after first read. | ||
| const shrunk: any = { p: 1, q: 2 }; | ||
| console.log("before delete", String(shrunk.q)); | ||
| delete shrunk.q; | ||
| console.log("after delete", String(shrunk.q)); | ||
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| // Many keys, to cross the indexed-lookup threshold the resolved entry | ||
| // deliberately delegates back to the original path for. | ||
| const wide: any = {}; | ||
| for (let i = 0; i < 64; i++) wide["k" + i] = i; | ||
| let sum = 0; | ||
| for (let i = 0; i < 64; i++) sum += wide["k" + i]; | ||
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| // A declared class instance is NOT an anon shape. | ||
| class Holder { v: number; constructor(v: number) { this.v = v; } } | ||
| const inst: any = new Holder(7); | ||
| console.log("class read", inst["v"], "ctor", inst.constructor === Holder); | ||
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| // A prototype-chain read through a dynamic key. | ||
| const parent: any = { inherited: "yes" }; | ||
| const child: any = Object.create(parent); | ||
| child.own = "mine"; | ||
| console.log("own", child["own"], "inherited", child["inherited"]); | ||
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| // Accessors must not be answered from the data fast path. | ||
| const acc: any = { get computed() { return "from-getter"; } }; | ||
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| // Hot loop over one key, which is the shape the removals were measured on. | ||
| const hot: any = { k: 1.5, other: 2 }; | ||
| let t = 0; | ||
| for (let i = 0; i < 500; i++) t += hot["k"]; | ||
| console.log("hot total", t); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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rg -n 'process\.env|is_process_env_ptr|CACHED_ENV|ANY_PROCESS_ENV_OBJECT' test-files crates/perry-runtime/src/process/env_misc.rsRepository: PerryTS/perry
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printf '%s\n' '--- env materialization and generic read sections ---'
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Exercise the materialized process.env path. This fixture contains no process.env expression, so it cannot materialize the environment object. Its dynamic reads therefore never reach the latch-gated is_process_env_ptr check. A regression in the latch ordering or predicate can leave this fixture passing. Add const env = process.env; console.log(env["PATH"]); to cover the path. The generic getter declines the fast path for this receiver, then routes the read through process_env_get_field.
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In `@test-files/test_gap_dynamic_key_read_paths.ts` around lines 1 - 60, Add a
materialized environment-object case using a local env reference initialized
from process.env, then dynamically read and log the PATH property through that
reference. Place it alongside the existing dynamic-key read coverage so the
process_env_get_field path and its is_process_env_ptr latch check are exercised.
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o[k]costs 674 instructions per access — in a loop, with a constant key, on a two-property object — against node's ~4.5. It does not amortize: every iteration pays the full lookup.That matters because
prop_readis the second most common construct in real TypeScript, at 258 per 1k lines across a 1.6M-line corpus, and dynamic-key access is how every map-like object,obj[field]loop and dispatch table reads.674.1 → 546.0, −19.0%. Three removals, each the same shape as the array-push work that landed in train 214: a helper re-deriving per access something already established.
What was removed
The keys array was re-resolved on every access.
keys_find_slot_by_bytesranclean_arr_ptr— allocator-ownership plus forwarding classification — ondescriptor.keys, 16.2% of the loop. That field is maintained by the collector: when the keys array moves,shapes::scan_shape_table_rekey_mutwrites the forwarded address straight back into every descriptor record in the family,(*record).keys = addr as u64, and prunes descriptors whose keys array died in the same pass. So the pointer read out of a live descriptor already is the resolved live head. I verified that rewrite exists before touching anything, rather than assuming the invariant. The resolved entry deliberately delegates back to the original forkey_count >= KEYS_INDEX_THRESHOLD, where the indexed path owns its own receiver handling.A thread-local was read to ask "is this
process.env?" on every access —_tlv_get_addrwas 14.1% of the loop, half of it from there. A sticky process-global latch means the thread-local is touched only once such an object exists.An
RwLockread guard was taken on every access.is_anon_shape_class_idwas 16.1% — the largest single frame left after the first removal. A guard is an atomic read-modify-write on a lock word shared by every thread in the image, paid to consult a set written only from module init. It is now answered from a lock-free open-addressed mirror.Why the mirror is sound
The set is insert-only — the registrar only ever calls
insert, and nothing removes — so an entry once published stays valid for the life of the image, and an open-addressed table needs no reclamation scheme at all. Slot0is the empty sentinel and the registrar rejects class id 0, so it is unambiguous. An insert that exhausts its probe run sets an overflow flag, after which a miss no longer proves absence and falls back to the locked set.It lives in the class image, beside
parent_dense— not in a process-global.ANON_SHAPE_CLASS_IDSis anImageTable, and every access resolves throughcurrent(), so a process-global mirror would answer one image's question out of another image's registrations. I built the process-global version first; it measured −24.3% and was wrong. This one measures −19.0% and is not. The ~5 points are the price of correctness.Two things that did not work
Recorded so nobody retries them.
How it was measured
Per-access cost comes from differencing two probes that differ only in access count, within each binary, so driver dispatch and code layout cancel before the arms are ever compared. Both arms were built from this commit's parent, on current
main.The bare-loop control reads
0.06and−0.11in the two arms, and the callback,new Pt3and object-literal controls are flat to two decimals — which is what makes the −128 trustworthy.Validation
test_gap_dynamic_key_read_paths.ts(new): plain reads and a miss;.constructor === ObjectandObject.getPrototypeOfon an object literal, which is exactly the anon-shape verdict the mirror now answers; a key added after a first read and a key deleted after a first read, so a stale keys array would show; 64 keys to cross the indexed-lookup threshold the resolved entry delegates for; a declared-class instance, which is not an anon shape; a prototype-chain read; an accessor, which must not be answered from the data fast path; and a 500-iteration hot loop, the shape the removals were measured on. Byte-identical to node 26.5.1.PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1: 2,117 and 2,450 copying minors, zero non-zerodangling=ormissing_rewrites=, output matching node both times, andretired_set=#Nlines confirming the quarantine was armed — so the green verdict is about a collector that actually ran.cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib,RUST_TEST_THREADS=1: 4,002 passed, 0 failed.RUSTFLAGS=-D warnings cargo check -p perry-runtime --all-targetsclean; fmt, file-size cap, test registration, addr-class, GC runtime root holders and thread-locals all pass.Still on the table
try_data_get_bytes's own body is 34.5% of what remains, andfrom_utf8re-validates the key's encoding on every access. Neither is touched here.Summary by CodeRabbit
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