fix(string): make codePointAt and slice linear on non-ASCII strings — native tsc 658 s -> 7.8 s (#10656, #10685) - #10664
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`js_string_code_point_at` walked the WTF-8 payload from byte 0 on every call for any string that is not pure ASCII, so a sequential scan over such a string was O(n^2). #10055 reported exactly this pathology; #10067 moved `charCodeAt` and bracket indexing onto a lazy sparse index with a cursor and left `codePointAt` on the old walk. The accessors disagreed on the same string. 200,000 indexed reads of `typescript@5.9.3`'s `lib.dom.d.ts` (1,874,815 chars, 45 of them non-ASCII): charCodeAt 2 ms codePointAt 13,049 ms Scaling over a string with a single `é`, time quadrupling per doubling: n=5,000 8 ms n=20,000 128 ms n=10,000 32 ms n=40,000 518 ms `codePointAt` is defined on code units, so no bespoke decoding is needed: route it through `utf16_unit_at` and apply the spec algorithm — read the unit, and only when it is a leading surrogate with a trailing surrogate after it combine the pair. That keeps the bounded WTF-8 stepping #6085 requires, so a payload ending in a truncated multi-byte lead still decodes from what is present instead of over-reading; the existing guard-page test `code_point_at_does_not_read_past_payload` covers that and still passes. After, same hardware, against Node v26.5.1: 200k reads, non-ASCII 13,049 ms -> 2 ms (node 1 ms) n=40,000 scan 518 ms -> 1 ms (node 0 ms) tsc --noEmit demo.ts 658.31 s -> 85.04 s user (node 0.80 s) The tsc figure is the motivating case: `sample` attributed ~85% of that run to `js_string_code_point_at` and ~12% to `copy_utf16_range` underneath it, because TypeScript's scanner calls `codePointAt` per character and `lib.dom.d.ts` — the largest file it loads — carries those 45 non-ASCII characters. 7.7x on the real workload, and the remaining gap is no longer string indexing. Values are unchanged: `"a\u{1F600}b"` still yields 97, 128512, 56832, 98 at indices 0-3 (astral code point at the pair start, bare trailing surrogate on the low half), `"ab".codePointAt(5)` is still undefined, all byte-identical to Node. Tests: two added next to the index they exercise — one walks every index of a long non-ASCII string containing a surrogate pair and compares against an independent UTF-16 expansion, one asserts forward and backward traversal agree so the cursor cannot serve a stale answer on a backward seek.
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| `String.prototype.codePointAt` is no longer O(n) per call on strings containing | |||
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Correct the release-note sentence.
This fragment becomes user-facing release-note text, so the sentence must be complete. Add a relative clause after “index”: “the same lazy UTF-16 index that charCodeAt and bracket indexing use.”
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In `@changelog.d/10656-codepointat-linear.md` at line 2, Update the release-note
sentence around the lazy UTF-16 index so it is grammatically complete, adding a
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…0685) `copy_utf16_range` resolved its start boundary with `advance(bytes, Boundary::default(), start)` — a walk from byte 0 on every call. Slicing a non-ASCII string at increasing offsets, which is what every tokenizer does, was therefore O(n^2): n=20,000 33 ms n=80,000 404 ms n=40,000 102 ms n=160,000 1,662 ms ASCII controls are flat at every size, so this is the fast-path loss rather than the copy itself. This is the same pathology as #10055: #10067 moved `charCodeAt` and bracket indexing onto the lazy index, #10656 moved `codePointAt`, and this was the accessor still left on the walk. `Index::seek` is factored out of `unit_at` so `unit_at` and the new `boundary_at` share one implementation and one cursor rather than drifting apart — which is how the other two were missed. `boundary_at` returns `None` for short payloads and `start == 0`, where the caller's own walk is already cheap and a four-entry cache should not be disturbed, so those keep their existing behaviour exactly. After, against Node v26.5.1: substring scan, n=160,000 1,662 ms -> 1 ms (node 0 ms) tsc --noEmit demo.ts 85.04 s -> 7.76 s user (node 0.80 s) 11x on real tsc, and 85x cumulative against the 658.31 s this started at. `sample` had attributed ~97% of the remaining run to `copy_utf16_range` (50,627 of ~51,700 leaf samples; next symbol 162), because TypeScript's scanner extracts every token with `substring` and `lib.dom.d.ts` carries 45 non-ASCII characters in 1.87 MB. Correctness is unchanged, including the cases a wrong boundary would corrupt rather than merely slow: hashing every substring of a string containing astral characters (all i,j pairs, including ones that split a surrogate pair) gives 1234090636 on both Perry and Node, split-pair slices still yield the lone halves "\ud83d" / "\ude00", and a random-access-order slice hash matches. Tests: `boundary_at_matches_a_walk_from_zero` compares the indexed lookup against `advance` from zero at every index of a string containing both a two-byte scalar and a surrogate pair; `boundary_at_is_order_independent` asserts forward and backward traversal agree so the cursor cannot serve a stale boundary after a backward seek. 158 `string::` tests pass.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/char_ops/utf16_index/tests.rs`:
- Around line 272-289: Strengthen the tests around boundary_at so valid nonzero
UTF-16 indices must resolve to Some rather than allowing missing cached results.
In the existing boundary comparison, unwrap boundary_at for every idx greater
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| if let Some((byte, low)) = super::boundary_at(s, idx) { | ||
| assert_eq!(byte, walked.byte, "byte offset at {idx}"); | ||
| assert_eq!(low, walked.low, "low-surrogate flag at {idx}"); | ||
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| /// The cursor optimises forward seeks; a backward seek must not reuse it. | ||
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| fn boundary_at_is_order_independent() { | ||
| let mut text = String::new(); | ||
| for _ in 0..80 { | ||
| text.push_str("x\u{e9}yz"); | ||
| } | ||
| let s = crate::string::js_string_from_bytes(text.as_ptr(), text.len() as u32); | ||
| let n = text.encode_utf16().count(); | ||
| let forward: Vec<_> = (0..n).map(|i| super::boundary_at(s, i)).collect(); | ||
| let backward: Vec<_> = (0..n).rev().map(|i| super::boundary_at(s, i)).collect(); |
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Require cached boundary results for valid nonzero indices.
These strings exceed CHECKPOINT_BYTES, and every index in 1..n is valid. boundary_at must return Some for these indices. Both tests preserve None, so an implementation that returns None for every cached lookup can pass.
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boundary_atfor everyidx > 0before comparing it withwalked. - At lines 288-289, iterate over nonzero indices and collect resolved boundaries before comparing traversal order.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/string/char_ops/utf16_index/tests.rs` around lines
272 - 289, Strengthen the tests around boundary_at so valid nonzero UTF-16
indices must resolve to Some rather than allowing missing cached results. In the
existing boundary comparison, unwrap boundary_at for every idx greater than zero
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backward traversals before comparing them.
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…th (#10694) `js_array_get_f64`, `js_array_set_f64`, `js_array_set_f64_extend` and the iteration-exotic helpers probed the buffer and typed-array registries on every element access. A `GC_TYPE_ARRAY` header can never be a registered buffer or typed array — every registration carries its own GC object type — and `array/header.rs`'s `receiver_may_be_registered_exotic` exists to say so in one already-warm header byte read plus an integer compare. Thirteen call sites in `array/iter_methods.rs` already used that gate. None in `array/indexing.rs` did. Measured with the runtime's own `PERRY_BUFFER_DIAG` on `tsc --noEmit demo.ts` (a two-line input): before: probes=79,691,777 admits=26,198,956 true_positives=90 after: probes=39,845,889 admits=21,646,032 true_positives=90 79.7M probes to answer a question about a set that never holds more than 9 buffers, and is answered yes 90 times. Honest perf note: this is not measurable on tsc wall-clock. `is_registered_buffer_slow` was 2.8% of leaf samples, so halving its calls predicts ~1.4%; five interleaved rounds give a median of -1.2% with overlapping ranges (A 6.85-8.02s, B 6.76-7.86s), i.e. below the noise floor at that sample size. The change earns its place on correctness and consistency — it removes provably-wasted work and makes the indexing path match the gate every iteration helper already uses — not on a demonstrated speedup. Buffer-heavy workloads should benefit more; tsc is not one. Gating the four remaining `||`-shaped probe sites in the same file changed the probe count by zero, so the other ~39.8M originate outside `array/indexing.rs` and are still unattributed. #10694 also records that the diagnostic sizes a 1024-bit/3-hash Bloom at 0.0% false-positive on this workload, which would make each surviving probe ~free regardless of caller. Verified: 443 existing tests pass (360 `array::`, 52 `buffer::`, 31 `typedarray::`), and a differential test against Node covering every typed array kind, Uint8Array wrapping (300 -> 44, -1 -> 255), Uint8ClampedArray clamping, f32 precision, Buffer, subarray aliasing and an Array subclass is byte-for-byte identical.
…10688) `UTF16_INDEX_CACHE` held `CACHE_ENTRIES = 4` indexes and evicted round-robin. A program interleaving indexed access across five or more non-ASCII strings evicted the entry it was about to need on every access and rebuilt it from scratch, forever. It was a step function, not a gradual decay: K interleaved before after 1 67 ns 67 ns 4 50 ns 67 ns 5 81,525 ns 67 ns 8 80,972 ns 67 ns 12 81,228 ns 67 ns 1,217x at K>=5, and flat everywhere. An ASCII control stays at 25-39 ns in both, which isolates the cause to the index rather than to string count. Capacity was the defect, so there is no capacity: the cache becomes an owner-keyed map and entries live until their string dies. The lifetime machinery already existed — `prune_dead_utf16_indexes` is driven by the collector — so this reuses it rather than inventing ownership. Raising `CACHE_ENTRIES` would only move the wall to K+1. I first tried changing the table's *shape* instead (sparse run-boundary syncs with affine spans, prototyped at 108x less index memory); it made this cliff 23% WORSE, 81,525 -> 100,287 ns, because K>=5 is a pure *rebuilding* workload and a run table builds more slowly than it queries. That experiment is written up on #10688 and is what established that the fix had to be "stop rebuilding". `scan_utf16_index_roots_mut` now drains, lets the visitor rewrite the owner identities the map is keyed by, and reinserts — the keys are exactly what the collector relocates, so they must be rehashed rather than mutated in place. Memory: peak RSS on `tsc --noEmit demo.ts` is 606.7 MB against 613.4 MB for the same binary without this change, i.e. slightly lower rather than higher. Entries are unbounded between collections by construction, which is a real change in character even though it does not cost anything measurable here. Tests: 158 `string::` tests pass single-threaded. The former `cache_eviction_is_bounded_and_short_strings_do_not_evict_sources` asserted `len() <= CACHE_ENTRIES`, which is now false by design, so it is replaced by `indexes_survive_any_number_of_interleaved_strings` — 16 strings, four times the old capacity, asserting every index survives, still answers correctly on a second pass, and is reclaimed by the prune hook. It keeps that test's other, capacity-independent invariant: a one-character string from `char_at` must not disturb its source's index. `gc::tests::copy_slot_decode::sabotaged_remembering_arm_is_refused_by_the_coverage_cross_check` fails identically with and without this change (same panic site, `copy_slot_decode.rs:135`), verified by running it alone against both trees; it is pre-existing and unrelated.
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Fixes #10656. Fixes #10685.
Two accessors were still resolving UTF-16 indices by walking the WTF-8 payload from byte 0 on every call, so scanning or slicing a string containing one non-ASCII character was O(n²). #10055 reported this pathology and #10067 fixed
charCodeAtand bracket indexing; these are the two that were left behind.Together they take a natively compiled
tsc --noEmiton a two-line file from 658 s to 7.8 s — 85×.codePointAt(#10656)slice/substring(#10685)The two fixes
codePointAtwalked the payload from byte 0. It is defined on code units, so no bespoke decoding is needed — route it throughutf16_unit_atand apply the spec algorithm, combining a pair only when a leading surrogate is followed by a trailing one.copy_utf16_rangeresolved its start boundary withadvance(bytes, Boundary::default(), start).Index::seekis now factored out ofunit_atsounit_atand the newboundary_atshare one implementation and one cursor — rather than drifting apart, which is how these two were missed in the first place.boundary_atreturnsNonefor short payloads andstart == 0, where the caller's walk is already cheap and a four-entry cache should not be disturbed, so those keep their exact existing behaviour.Both keep the bounded WTF-8 stepping #6085 requires; the guard-page test
code_point_at_does_not_read_past_payloadstill passes.Isolated measurements
éin the string)codePointAt,lib.dom.d.tscodePointAtscan, n=40,000substringscan, n=160,000ASCII controls are flat before and after, so both were fast-path losses rather than the work itself.
Correctness
Values are byte-identical to Node, including the cases a wrong boundary corrupts rather than merely slows:
i,jpairs, including ones splitting a surrogate pair) hashes to1234090636on both;["\ud83d", "\ude00", "😀"];"a\u{1F600}b"still gives97, 128512, 56832, 98at indices 0–3;codePointAthashes match sequential order, so a stale cursor cannot pass.158
string::tests pass, including four added here: two walking every index of a non-ASCII string with a surrogate pair against an independent expansion, and two asserting forward and backward traversal agree.Follow-ups this surfaced (not in this PR)
CACHE_ENTRIES = 4. The index cache is a four-slot thread-local keyed by string identity.tscis fine because one large string dominates, but a program interleaving slices of five or more non-ASCII strings would thrash it and fall back to quadratic. Moving the index into the string itself — lazily allocated, freed with the string — would remove the cliff, the TLS access and theRefCellborrow, at ~6% overhead versus 100% for a UTF-16 side buffer.Summary by CodeRabbit
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String.prototype.codePointAtperformance for non-ASCII strings.String.prototype.slice,substring, andsubstrduring sequential and increasing-offset operations.Bug Fixes
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