perf(codegen,hir): stop re-proving a loop-invariant array receiver on every element access — Array read 87 to 13.5 instructions (#10718) - #10731
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… every element access (PerryTS#10718) An indexed read on an ordinary `Array` cost 87 instructions per element, against 6 for the identical arithmetic on a `Float64Array` and 16 for node. None of it was a runtime call: callgrind attributes 88.3 instructions per element to straight-line code in `main`, of which **56 are loop-invariant receiver revalidation** re-executed every iteration — the NaN-box tag and handle-band test, the forwarding-flag follow, and a six-load live-head guard that re-reads gc_type, gc_flags, obj_flags, a volatile invalidation flag, length and capacity. perry already has tiers that hoist exactly this proof into the loop preheader and version the loop. They were declining at a single gate in `stmt/loops.rs` — `array_static_type_excluded` — a **declared static type** test sitting in front of a tier that is otherwise fully runtime-guarded. `const a: number[] = new Array(400)` reached it and measured 13.4; plain `new Array(400)` infers `Array<any>` and did not, so ordinary JavaScript never got the tier it already had. Separately, and larger: `a[i] += 1` cost 948 instructions per element, 3.7x the identical `a[i] = a[i] + 1`, and a type annotation did not help. `lower/expr_assign.rs` minted the compound-assignment spill temporaries as `Type::Any`, erasing the receiver's array-ness and the index's integer-ness before codegen could see the statement — which is why no annotation could recover it. The temporaries now carry the operand types. Array read 87.0 -> 13.5 (node 16.3 — perry now wins 1.21x) a[i] += 1 948 -> 273 a[i] += b[i] 1025 -> 347 bare loop 4.0 -> 4.0 unchanged to the instruction Float64Array r/w 6.0/8.0 -> 6.0/8.0 unchanged to the instruction A particle simulation over four numeric arrays spends 60.9% fewer instructions (41.21 G -> 16.12 G) and 59% less peak RSS. The widened tier initially regressed a numeric window inside an otherwise non-numeric array by 33%, because the array-wide layout walk runs per loop entry. A window-scoped layout proof is used as a second chance after that walk declines; both shapes are now 12-13% wins, and arrays that are non-numeric from slot 0 are unchanged to the instruction. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change preserves local types during compound assignments, admits erased ordinary arrays to packed-f64 read-loop specialization, and adds window-scoped runtime validation for numeric array contents. ChangesArray index specialization
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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GeneratedRangeLoop->>packed_f64_array_loop_range_guard: validate receiver and index bounds
packed_f64_array_loop_range_guard->>ArrayHeader: check array-wide numeric-or-hole invariant
ArrayHeader-->>packed_f64_array_loop_range_guard: return proof result
packed_f64_array_loop_range_guard->>ArrayHeader: check requested index window when needed
ArrayHeader-->>packed_f64_array_loop_range_guard: return window proof
packed_f64_array_loop_range_guard-->>GeneratedRangeLoop: select specialized or slow loop
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1-9: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRewrite this as one shipped-behavior release note.
Describe the optimization and its user-visible scope. Remove the implementation-slice narrative about gates and temporary types. This prevents conflicting narratives when changelog fragments are assembled.
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…ent stores (#10718) An indexed write cost 105 instructions per element with zero runtime calls; 51 of them were loop-invariant receiver revalidation and 42 was a write-barrier decision provable away from the value type. This widens the store admission the way #10731 widened reads. a[i] = k + i 105 -> 17.4, a[i] = a[i] + 1 256 -> 24.5, a[i] = a[i] + b[i] 333 -> 35.9. The bare loop, both Float64Array paths and the indexed read are unchanged to the instruction. The barrier-stem census probe for idxset.recv_global gains a second statement: the widened tier made its loop qualify, which would have left that stem with no live witness. A future multi-statement store tier must re-shape the probe, not delete it.
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…already had (#10743) Fixes #10743. Stacked on #10746 (`2b2b89063`), which contains #10731. `a[i] += 1` and `a[i] = a[i] + 1` are the same operation and node compiles both to the same cost. perry compiled them 11x apart -- 277 instructions per element against 24 -- and the slow one was the idiomatic spelling. HIR's `hoist_compound_member_assign` lowers a compound member assignment into two immutable alias `Let`s plus the store, so the base and the key are each evaluated exactly once and before the right-hand side. `packed_f64_range_loop_body_collect` admits exactly ONE statement, so the lowering guaranteed the statement could never reach the tier that makes the expanded form fast. Annotating the array changed nothing: the obstacle is the statement count, not type information. The temporaries stay. They are load-bearing -- an RHS call can reassign the bindings they were read from, and the store must still land at the index evaluated before it ran (`a[i] += (() => { i = 2; return 5; })()`). So the fold is in the MATCHER, and it applies only to the guarded fast clones: the slow clone lowers the statements as written, so a failed guard and every side exit still execute the specified evaluation order. Inside the matched subset the fold is exact, because `packed_f64_range_loop_pure_expr_collect` is a whitelist that admits no call, closure, `await`, update or assignment anywhere in the statement -- nothing can write the locals the aliases read. This needs none of #10741's mid-iteration side-exit discipline: the folded-away statements perform no stores, so there is nothing to un-do when a guard fails partway. Per element, fitted across N=10,000 -> 50,000, three interleaved rounds per arm: a[i] += 1 277.05 -> 25.46 (node 16.9) a[i] -= 1 208.05 -> 27.45 (node 16.9) a[i] += b[i] 347.05 -> 35.86 (node 25.8) -- now exactly a[i] = a[i] + b[i] a[i] *= 1 206.05 -> 25.45 (node 15.1) a[i] |= 0 236.05 -> 52.46 (node 12.7) The bare loop, both `Float64Array` rows, the indexed read and write and both expanded spellings are unchanged -- their emitted LLVM IR is byte-identical between arms, which is a stronger witness than a flat fitted number. It moves none of the five real programs in #10695, and the compiler's own trace says why: `sim` still reports 3 x `body_not_admissible`, because its inner loop is five statements containing two `if`s. This admits a body whose extra statements are compound-assign ALIASES, not a body whose extra statements do things. That remains #10741. New diagnostic: `PERRY_PACKED_LOOP_TRACE=1` prints `[range-loop] admitted: compound_assign_alias_fold`. The existing traces report only DECLINES, so there was no way to show that a fixture claiming to exercise a guarded path actually reached it -- the exact gap that let #10746 ship a GC stress whose fixtures were all declined before the guard under test ran. Correctness: 25 differential fixtures (evaluation order with a side-effecting RHS, getters and setters on the array / on `Array.prototype` / on the index, a prototype getter that truncates, deletes from or freezes the array mid-loop, frozen and sealed in sloppy and strict mode, a non-writable index, holes, out of bounds, past `length`, non-number elements, string `+=`, heap-reference stores, offset and affine indices, module-global receivers, typed arrays, and all fifteen compound operators) pass on both arms with byte-identical results. Guard sabotage: removing the per-store numeric-bits value check produces 27 SIGABRTs across seven heap-limit seeds under `PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1` (0 unsabotaged), with the from-space scan naming a survivor-space array holding an un-evacuated nursery pointer through a slot that was never marked dirty -- so this path does not bypass #10746's write barrier, it is the same check on the same store. Neutering the loop-entry guard turns four fixtures red, all of them through the fold. The `mutable: false` condition is witnessed by a unit test and an IR test; the `__cmpd_` name test and the initialiser grammar are scoping restrictions with unit-test witnesses only, and lowering the folded body in the slow clone as well turns nothing red -- all three are stated as unwitnessed in the report rather than claimed. Gates: node identity 92 identical / 1 diff / 0 compile-fail on both arms with byte-identical results files (the diff is the pre-existing #10733 `nest` defect); `perry-codegen` lib 1650 pass including the barrier stem census and its four sabotage twins, with NO census probe change needed; `perry-hir` green; clippy 470 = 470 with identical per-category counts; `cargo fmt`, `check_file_size.sh`, `gc_runtime_root_holders.py` and `local_binding_type_audit.py` clean and identical on both arms; peak RSS worst case +0.60%.
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Landed via merge train 232 (#10780) as v0.5.1611 — This PR's commits are on Your CI reds were stale, not real. For the record, since they'd otherwise sit on this PR looking like your problem:
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Fixes #10718.
An indexed read on an ordinary
Arraycost 87 instructions per element — against 6 for the identical arithmetic on aFloat64Arrayand 16 for node.Attribution
None of the 87 is a runtime call. callgrind (
--dump-instr,x86-64-v3,--debug-symbols) puts 2,120,039 of 2,907,242 Ir inmain— 88.3 per element, one straight-line block executed 24,000 times. The registry gauntlet injs_array_get_f64never runs.TAG_HOLEcompare + select+operand tag tests +vaddsd56 of 87 — 64% — are loop-invariant receiver revalidation, re-executed every iteration to re-establish facts that cannot change inside the loop.
The tier already existed and was declining at one gate
perry has tiers that hoist exactly this proof into the preheader and version the loop. They were rejecting at
stmt/loops.rs:[range-loop] rejected: array_static_type_excluded— a declared-static-type test standing in front of a tier that is otherwise fully runtime-guarded.const a: number[] = new Array(400)passed it and measured 13.4. Plainnew Array(400)infersArray<any>and did not. So the fast tier was reachable only from annotated TypeScript, and ordinary JavaScript — the case it exists for — never got it.The larger finding: compound assignment erased its own types
a[i] += 1cost 948 per element, 3.7× the identicala[i] = a[i] + 1(256), and annotating the array changed nothing (949). The profile showsjs_object_{get,set}_index_polymorphic, index stringification viafrom_utf8,arguments-object probes, andHashMap<(usize,String),PropertyAttrs>::insert.One line:
lower/expr_assign.rsminted the compound-assign spill temporaries asType::Any, erasing the receiver's array-ness and the index's integer-ness in HIR, before codegen saw the statement. That is precisely why no annotation could rescue it.sim.tsis entirely+=/-=on array elements.Super-additive read-modify-write is arithmetic, not a mystery: the statement makes three accesses, not two, each with a complete guard chain (three copies of the volatile flag load in the hot set), plus two
js_array_note_numeric_writecalls per element at 52 Ir. 87 + 105 + 87 + 52 = 331 against 334 measured.Results
Float64Arrayread / writeArrayreada[i] += 1a[i] += b[i]ArraywriteArrayread-modify-writeThe bare loop and both typed-array rows are unchanged to the instruction — that is the witness that nothing already-fast was disturbed.
Whole programs:
sim−60.9% (41.21 G → 16.12 G instructions, 1.54 s → 0.60 s, peak RSS −59%),graph−1.2%,tok/records/textflat. Peak RSS worst case across the set +0.5%, well inside the ≤ +10% budget.The axis this could ruin — measured, and it did ruin it
An untyped array holding numerics over the loop window but one non-numeric slot outside it regressed +33%, because the array-wide layout walk runs per loop entry. That is why the third change exists: a window-scoped layout proof, used only as a second chance after the array-wide walk declines. Both shapes are now −13% / −12% wins, and arrays that are non-numeric from slot 0 are unchanged to the instruction.
Correctness
50 differential fixtures covering holes,
delete, out-of-bounds, negative and non-integer indices, indices pastlength, getters and setters on the array and onArray.prototype,definePropertyon an index, frozen and sealed arrays, modifiedlength, prototype-chain lookups, andarguments-like and proxied receivers: 29 → 30 PASS (the one change is a fixture fix — it pollutedArray.prototype[3], which corrupts node's ownconsole.log). Plus 4 new repo tests; reverting the HIR change fails 3 of the 4, and the 4th is the one asserting the restriction.Guard sabotage — an env-gated arm admitting every receiver — produces two real witnesses: an index descriptor (403985 → 399000, the getter bypassed) and a non-numeric element (the string's NaN-box bits added as a double).
What that sabotage does not witness, stated plainly: frozen and sealed only matter for stores;
lengthmodification,deleteandArray.prototypeindex pollution are caught by the hole side-exit rather than by this guard; proxy,argumentsand subclass receivers are declined by the matcher before the guard runs. So the guard's own coverage is narrower than the fixture list suggests, and a reviewer should not read 50 green fixtures as 50 things this guard defends.Gates
Node identity 87 identical / 1 diff, byte-identical to base on the shared set — the one diff is
rungs/pr, the pre-existing__proto__defect (#10706), with the same output in both arms.perry-runtime4065 pass plus the two expected--release-impossible debug-assert failures;perry-codegenandperry-hirgreen.cargo fmtclean. Clippy 1612 real lint warnings on both arms (the raw grep differs by one line — cargo's "build failed, waiting…", from 13 pre-existingapproximate_constanterrors inperry-runtimetest targets).check_file_size.sh,gc_runtime_root_holders.pyandlocal_binding_type_audit.pyall clean.Not done
The store side is untouched — the 105 and the 334 stand. Widening it means raw slot stores on an unproven element type, which pulls in frozen/sealed, the write barrier and the pointer-free layout note.
simis still 0.041× node andgraph0.097×; both need that work to close.Hoisting the 56 invariant instructions for arbitrary loop bodies — the shapes the matcher rejects as
body_not_admissible— is architectural. LLVM cannot do it because the invalidation flag is aload_volatileand the tier's own cold paths are runtime calls inside the loop.Found while here, filed separately:
b()[k()] += 10silently drops the store.https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ
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