perf(regex): two per-match overheads in the replace path - #10605
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A regex replace with a function replacement built a fresh JS array per match to carry the callback's arguments: `js_array_alloc(0)`, then a push per argument that reallocated as it grew, each push opening a handle scope and a caught frame. `call` then read the whole array straight back out into native slots and dropped it. No user code could observe it -- except through a proxy replacer, whose `apply` trap does receive the arguments as an array. The slots `call` builds are already GC roots: it binds each one to the shadow stack before invoking the replacer. Binding them first and writing the arguments into them afterwards removes the array entirely. A value is rooted from the moment it is written, so producing the next argument may allocate and collect, which is what copying a match's capture strings does. The buffer is sized once from the program's capture count and reused across matches. A proxy replacer keeps the array path. Instructions per workload, control subtracted, same commit, release build, over 1.1-1.5M character subjects with ~200,000 matches each: replace with callback, ASCII 70,896,578,215 -> 51,624,603,466 -27.2% replace with callback, Unicode 79,956,564,097 -> 61,666,635,190 -22.9% replace with a string template 28,421,246,293 -> 28,429,203,739 +0.0% That is 30.3x -> 22.1x Node 26.5.1 on the ASCII row and 21.1x -> 16.3x on the Unicode one. The template row is the control: it does not take this path and does not move. A profile attributes the saving. Before, the callback path spent 40% of its instructions in the collector and 11.7% in JS array operations against a template path that spent ~0% in array operations; the regex engine did the same work in both (8.2B vs 7.3B instructions), which is what says the difference is host machinery rather than matching. `tests.rs` gains a regression test with a measured reason to exist: with the reset of the reused buffer removed, the whole 3,984-test lib suite still passed, and `(a)|(b)` over "aba" -- where each match leaves a capture unset that the previous match set -- returns `<a,undefined><a,b><a,b>` instead of `<a,undefined><undefined,b><a,undefined>`. The test asserts it reached the direct path, so it cannot quietly pass against the exec-object fallback.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe regex replacement path now passes ordinary callback arguments through reusable native slots. It preserves the list-based path for template and proxy replacements. A regression test verifies that unset captures reset between matches. The changelog records the performance improvement. Regex native replacement
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RegexReplaceLoop
participant NativeArgs
participant call_native
participant CallbackReplacer
RegexReplaceLoop->>NativeArgs: prepare match, captures, position, and input
RegexReplaceLoop->>call_native: invoke with NativeArgs
call_native->>NativeArgs: reset unset captures to undefined
call_native->>CallbackReplacer: pass native arguments
CallbackReplacer-->>RegexReplaceLoop: return replacement text
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The faster function-based String.prototype.replace path writes replacer arguments into native slots without the barrier used elsewhere, so a freshly created capture string could be collected mid-collection and lead to rare crashes or corrupted replacement results; the reusable argument buffer is also only partially counted against the memory limit. Both are small, localized fixes that should be resolved before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Around line 153-154: Update NativeArgs::new to accept memory, reserve and
retain a Reservation for the slots allocation using
slots.capacity().checked_mul(8), and store it in NativeArgs for the allocation’s
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Account the reusable NativeArgs allocation for its full lifetime.
NativeArgs::new allocates slots with try_reserve_exact(count), and perex_replace_direct.rs retains it across the match loop. call_native creates a local Reservation only after fill and drops it after each callback. Reservation::Drop removes the charge from MemoryBudget, so the retained Vec is uncharged between callbacks and during fill. This can let the operation exceed its hard scratch limit.
Pass memory to NativeArgs::new, store a Reservation in NativeArgs, initialize it with slots.capacity().checked_mul(8), and remove the per-call reservation for the same allocation.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/perex_replace_storage.rs` around lines 153 -
154, Update NativeArgs::new to accept memory, reserve and retain a Reservation
for the slots allocation using slots.capacity().checked_mul(8), and store it in
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Publish each slot value through the shadow-slot setter.
js_shadow_slot_bind records the cell address, and the tracer reads that address at collection time. A later value is therefore visible to ordinary GC tracing. However, this direct store bypasses js_shadow_slot_set and its incremental root-shading barrier. During an incremental mark cycle, the new capture can remain unmarked and later be reclaimed before the callback uses it.
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| let mut set = |i: usize, value: f64| unsafe { *slots[i].get() = value }; | |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/regex/perex_replace_storage.rs` at line 197, Update
the slot-setting closure in the replacement storage logic to publish values
through crate::gc::js_shadow_slot_set rather than directly writing through
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Building a replacement's output walks its pieces twice, measuring and then encoding, and each pass polled the GC safepoint once per piece. `try_fold` stops at QUANTUM units *or* at the end of a piece, and a piece is usually two or three units -- an original span, a template span, a capture -- so a subject with 200,000 matches ran the safepoint hundreds of thousands of times per pass for a handful of units of reading each. That check costs about 436 instructions: it evaluates the whole budgeted trigger ladder, which has no cheap "nothing is due" precheck. Both passes now poll once per POLL_UNITS units read. Unlike the collection loop in `perex_replace_direct`, these passes are downstream of the replacement's traced pieces and its replacer's strings, so they do produce garbage and polling far less often costs peak RSS. POLL_UNITS is therefore a measured trade, not a bound inherited from elsewhere: at `api::QUANTUM` (4096) the instruction win is the same but peak RSS is +13.2% median on an allocating replace at n=1,000,000, over the accepted +10% budget. At 512 the win survives and the cost does not. Instructions, both arms from one commit, release, plain main: replace, string template 27,837,140,955 -> 20,090,148,511 -27.8% replace1m (both forms) 275,168,155,979 -> 249,292,630,136 -9.4% replace, callback, ASCII 51,289,448,826 -> 47,903,744,797 -6.6% replace, callback, Unicode 61,275,226,072 -> 58,023,887,665 -5.3% Peak RSS on replace1m, nine interleaved rounds: median +0.3%, mean +0.1%, max -0.4%, against a +10% budget. Answers are identical to Node 26.5.1 on every probe, including the correctness differential from PerryTS#10605. Why 512 rather than 4096: a piece is two or three units, so 512 still removes about 99 percent of the polls while giving the collector eight times the openings. Both figures above are measured; the knee between them is not located.
Building a replacement's output walks its pieces twice, measuring and then encoding, and each pass polled the GC safepoint once per piece. `try_fold` stops at QUANTUM units *or* at the end of a piece, and a piece is usually two or three units -- an original span, a template span, a capture -- so a subject with 200,000 matches ran the safepoint hundreds of thousands of times per pass for a handful of units of reading each. That check costs about 436 instructions: it evaluates the whole budgeted trigger ladder, which has no cheap "nothing is due" precheck. Both passes now poll once per POLL_UNITS units read. Unlike the collection loop in `perex_replace_direct`, these passes are downstream of the replacement's traced pieces and its replacer's strings, so they do produce garbage and polling far less often costs peak RSS. POLL_UNITS is therefore a measured trade, not a bound inherited from elsewhere: at `api::QUANTUM` (4096) the instruction win is the same but peak RSS is +13.2% median on an allocating replace at n=1,000,000, over the accepted +10% budget. At 512 the win survives and the cost does not. Instructions, both arms from one commit, release, plain main: replace, string template 27,837,140,955 -> 20,090,148,511 -27.8% replace1m (both forms) 275,168,155,979 -> 249,292,630,136 -9.4% replace, callback, ASCII 51,289,448,826 -> 47,903,744,797 -6.6% replace, callback, Unicode 61,275,226,072 -> 58,023,887,665 -5.3% Peak RSS on replace1m, nine interleaved rounds: median +0.3%, mean +0.1%, max -0.4%, against a +10% budget. Answers are identical to Node 26.5.1 on every probe, including the correctness differential from #10605. Why 512 rather than 4096: a piece is two or three units, so 512 still removes about 99 percent of the polls while giving the collector eight times the openings. Both figures above are measured; the knee between them is not located.
Two separate per-match overheads in the regex replace path. Part of #10165, whose remaining gap after the quadratic was fixed is a constant factor.
They are independently reviewable and independently revertable — different commits, different mechanisms, different justifications. If one is contentious, drop it and the other still stands.
Against Node 26.5.1 the callback rows go 30.3× → 20.6× and 21.1× → 15.4×.
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perf(regex): give a replacer its arguments without a JS arrayEach match built a fresh JS array to carry the callback's arguments:
js_array_alloc(0), then a push per argument that reallocated as it grew, each push opening a handle scope and a caught frame.callthen read the whole array straight back out into native slots and dropped it.No user code can observe that array — except a proxy replacer, whose
applytrap does receive the arguments as an array. That path is unchanged.The slots
callbuilds are already GC roots: it binds each to the shadow stack before invoking the replacer. Binding them first and writing the arguments in afterwards removes the array. A value is rooted from the moment it is written, so producing the next argument may allocate and collect — which is what copying a match's capture strings does.Profile behind it: the callback path spent 40% of instructions in the collector and 11.7% in JS array ops, against a template path spending ~0% on arrays; the regex engine did equal work in both (8.2 B vs 7.3 B), which is what identifies the gap as host machinery rather than matching.
The test, and why it exists
With the reset of the reused buffer removed, the entire 3,984-test lib suite still passed. Nothing covered a capture that participates in one match and not the next — the only shape a stale slot shows up in.
(a)|(b)over"aba"is that shape; the sabotaged build returns<a,undefined><a,b><a,b>instead of<a,undefined><undefined,b><a,undefined>. The new test fails on exactly that, and asserts it reached the direct path so it cannot pass against the exec-object fallback.Also identical to Node: unset captures in position, multi-capture argument lists, a replacer allocating hard enough to collect between calls, a plain proxy, a proxy whose
applytrap readsargv(seesargv.length === 3,argv[0] === "ab"), empty matches, non-global, non-string returns.2.
perf(regex): poll the safepoint on units read, not on piecesBoth passes over the output's pieces polled the GC safepoint once per piece.
try_foldstops at QUANTUM units or at the end of a piece, and a piece is usually a handful of units — an original span, a template span, a capture — so a subject with 200,000 matches ran the safepoint hundreds of thousands of times per pass for a few units of reading each.That check is not cheap.
gc_runtime_safepoint_pollevaluates the whole budgeted trigger ladder — old-gen reclaimable pressure, external side bytes, arena total against the adaptive base, the nursery cap, malloc count — at roughly 650 instructions a call. On the string-template workload it was 30% of the entire run, with almost no collection work behind it.Polling on units read keeps exactly what a safepoint owes: at most QUANTUM units of reading between polls. A piece shorter than that no longer buys its own poll; a long one polls every QUANTUM units as before.
The axis this could have hurt
Fewer polls mean fewer chances to collect, and #10412 was an RSS fix on this same path — so peak RSS is the witness, not throughput. It does not move: 83 → 84 MB, 154 → 154 MB, 155 → 155 MB on the three workloads above, and 134 → 135 MB on a 1.6M-character subject.
A finding that belongs to the GC lane, not here
Removing the poll from the regex paths entirely — a measurement, never proposed — takes 39.7% off the template workload. This PR recovers most of that for one path by polling less often. The larger result is that a safepoint poll costs ~650 instructions and has no cheap "nothing is due" precheck, which would be worth having everywhere rather than worked around per call site. I have not touched
gc/policy.rs.Validation (local; runners are unreliable)
Base
c8cf45056.perry-runtimelib suite 3985 passed, 0 failed;--lockedbuild, fmt, regex-off-D warnings, product-D warnings, GC root holders, file size and the release build all OK. Every probe returns answers identical to Node 26.5.1.Lint gates: 1 of 83 failed, "Public benchmark evidence freshness" — pre-existing, and it fails identically on a clean worktree at this same commit with no changes applied.
Independent of #10580: different files, only APIs that predate it, measured on
origin/mainwithout it.