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perf(codegen): hoist the loop-invariant receiver proof for array element stores — 105 to 17.4 instructions (#10718) - #10746

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Part of #10718, stacked on #10731 (which fixed the read side). Base 8d4693737 = origin/main 7c5d04d0e + #10731 1246fd9df.

An indexed write to an ordinary Array cost 105 instructions per element — against 8 for the same store to a Float64Array, and 12 for node.

Attribution

Zero runtime calls: the 105 is 105 machine instructions, one per element, classified exhaustively from callgrind.

51 (49%) loop-invariant — 15 receiver unbox + handle-band test, 22 live-head guard (6 loads including the volatile invalidation flag), 7 null-guard + a second length load + bounds, 7 elements-pointer re-derivation
42 (40%) the write-barrier / layout-note decision, provable away from the value's type
12 (11%) the actual work

The 42 is measured rather than inferred: a[i] = k - i costs 74 where a[i] = k + i costs 105, because expr/helpers.rs refuses BinaryOp::Add outright regardless of operands.

Results

per element base fix node bun
bare loop 4.0 4.0 7.8 7.6
Float64Array read / write 6.0 / 8.0 6.0 / 8.0 10.2 / 11.5 10.6 / 16.1
Array read (from #10731) 13.5 13.5 16.0 13.0
Array write a[i] = k + i 105.0 17.4 12.2 13.0
a[i] = a[i] + 1 256.0 24.5 18.7 16.3
a[i] = a[i] + b[i] 333.0 35.9 26.3 19.2

The four rows that had to stay flat are unchanged to the instruction — that is the witness that nothing already fast was disturbed.

A disclosed regression: a[i] += 1 moves the wrong way, 273 → 277, and a[i] -= 1 203 → 208. Once the array binding is offered to the tier, the loop pays an entry probe it then cannot use because the body is rejected. It is 1.5% on a row already 15× off node, against −87.6 on the store row, but it is real.

Both guards are witnessed

Loop-entry guard — sabotaged by an env-gated arm admitting every receiver. 8 of 22 differential fixtures fail without it: frozen sloppy (stores must be silently ignored), frozen strict (must throw), an index setter via defineProperty, a non-writable index, an Array.prototype setter with a deleted own slot, growth through the store, a shrunk length, and a descriptor added mid-loop.

Per-store value check — this one guards the write barrier, and it was initially unwitnessed. Every heap-value fixture was being declined at body_not_admissible before the guard ran, so the original 60-run GC stress proved nothing about it. The shape that does reach it is a module-global array receiver with a store whose value is a bare parameter read, because packed_f64_range_loop_pure_expr_collect admits Expr::LocalGet(_) as a store value with no type test. Confirmed on the tier by 169.1 → 15.5 instructions/element between arms.

Sabotaging that check, under PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1 across seven heap-limit seeds:

fixture normal sabotaged
heap object 0/7 6/7 SIGABRT
heap string 0/7 5/7 SIGABRT
mixed double/object 0/7 5/7 SIGABRT

16 aborts sabotaged, 0 unsabotaged, with the from-space scan naming the defect exactly:

[gc-fromspace-scan abort] ... dangling=1 owners=1 | never_dirty=1
  owner=0x5364c3800a8 type=1 space=Survivor1 +8 nanbox
    -> 0x5364af3d3e8 (type=2 NurseryEden) DANGLING (target not evacuated)
    [slot dirty_now=false ever_dirty=false]
    owner_hdr: array_len=400 capacity=400

An old-space array holding an un-evacuated nursery pointer through a slot that was never marked dirty — the barrier never ran. That is precisely the failure the fast path must not be able to cause, and it is now demonstrably caught.

A change withdrawn

Admitting Add in the numeric-bits predicate worked — 109 → 77 — and was about to be reported with an unwitnessed guard. The repo's own barrier census caught that it deleted the idxset.recv_global barrier arm, failing 8 tests including the four sabotage twins. It is not in this diff.

The census probe change, and why it is not a weakened check

The widened tier made the idxset.recv_global census probe's loop qualify, which would have left that barrier stem with no live witness anywhere — the thing the census exists to prevent. The probe gains a second statement, which keeps it on the un-versioned receiver ladder it exists to cover without changing what it asserts.

The claim that this is a stale probe rather than a missed barrier is checkable: the slow copy reaches the store through the idxset.inbounds arm and keeps all three barrier calls plus the numeric note. A full annotated IR dump with a reproduction recipe is at /root/IR_DUMP_recv_global.txt on the build host. If a future tier learns to admit multi-statement store bodies this probe goes red again, deliberately, and must be re-shaped rather than deleted — that note is in the source.

What this does not do

It moves none of the five real programs in #10695sim and text identical to the instruction, the rest under 0.03%. Their loop bodies are multi-statement or contain calls, which no current tier admits. That is filed as #10741, with the trace evidence.

a[i] += 1 is unaffected for a different reason: its lowering is two alias Lets plus the store, and the matcher takes one statement. Filed as #10743 — and that one looks tractable, since the expanded form now beats node.

Gates

Node identity 119 identical / 1 diff / 0 compile-fail on both arms, zero fixtures differing between them (the one diff is the pre-existing nested-literal defect, #10733). perry-runtime 4069/0; perry-codegen --lib 1639/0 both arms; perry-hir green. Clippy 470 = 470. cargo fmt and all three scripts clean. Peak RSS worst case +0.90%. GC stress 60 runs, 9 evacuating scans, 0 failures — with the caveat above that those runs did not exercise the widened fast copy, which is why the targeted witness above exists.

Two measurements were discarded as invalid rather than reported: sabotage arms that turned out byte-identical (perry's object cache ignores codegen env vars), and an identity sweep whose compiler cargo clean had deleted.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance
    • Improved JIT performance for indexed reads and writes on standard arrays inside eligible numeric loops.
    • Reduced instruction costs for compound assignments such as array[index] += value.
    • Improved particle-simulation performance, with reported reductions of up to 60.9% in instructions and 59% in peak memory usage.
    • Extended optimizations to arrays with inferred or unspecified element types while preserving runtime safety.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected type handling for compound-assignment operations, enabling more efficient generated code.

… 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
…ent stores (PerryTS#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 PerryTS#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.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YaNfLEjMRdhCLtk3SB5MdJ
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The PR preserves source types for compound-assignment temporaries, widens packed-f64 range-loop admission for ordinary arrays, and adds window-scoped runtime validation for arrays containing holes.

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Ordinary array optimization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compound-assignment temporary types
crates/perry-hir/src/lower/expr_assign.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/compound_assign_temp_type_tests.rs, crates/perry-hir/src/lower/mod.rs
Compound-assignment temporaries now preserve types from local sources. Tests cover typed arrays, untyped arrays, call results, and string arrays.
Guarded ordinary-array range loops
crates/perry-codegen/src/stmt/loops.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/array/header.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/array/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/typed_feedback.rs, scripts/local_binding_type_allowlist.json
Packed-f64 range-loop admission accepts guardable untyped arrays. Runtime validation can check only the accessed window and preserves GC tracing outside that window.
Optimization coverage and release notes
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/barrier_stem_census_tests.rs, changelog.d/10718-array-index-hoist.md, changelog.d/10718-array-store-hoist.md
The census probe keeps a multi-statement loop outside the versioned tier. Changelog entries document indexed read and store instruction reductions and unaffected cases.

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  participant RangeLoopMatcher
  participant TypedFeedbackGuard
  participant ArrayWindowValidator
  RangeLoopMatcher->>TypedFeedbackGuard: submit ordinary array range loop
  TypedFeedbackGuard->>TypedFeedbackGuard: attempt array-wide numeric rebuild
  TypedFeedbackGuard->>ArrayWindowValidator: validate requested index window when needed
  ArrayWindowValidator-->>TypedFeedbackGuard: return numeric-or-hole result
  TypedFeedbackGuard-->>RangeLoopMatcher: select packed-f64 tier or fallback loop
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Arrays with an unrelated nonnumeric element outside the accessed range can repeatedly incur full-array validation, undermining the intended optimization. Fix the guard strategy and add coverage for this fallback before merge.

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`a[i] = k + i` **105 → 17.4**, `a[i] = a[i] + 1` **256 → 24.5** (node 18.7), `a[i] = a[i] + b[i]` **333 → 35.9**. The bare loop, both `Float64Array` paths and the indexed read are unchanged to the instruction.

Note this moves none of the five real programs in #10695 — their loop bodies are multi-statement or contain calls, which no current tier admits (#10741) — and `a[i] += 1` is unaffected because its lowering is two statements (#10743).

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Correct the compound-assignment statement count.

a[i] += 1 emits two temporary declarations and the final assignment expression. It therefore produces three statements, not two. Use “multiple statements” to describe the tier limitation.

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-— and `a[i] += 1` is unaffected because its lowering is two statements (`#10743`).
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Note this moves none of the five real programs in #10695 — their loop bodies are multi-statement or contain calls, which no current tier admits (#10741) — and `a[i] += 1` is unaffected because its lowering is two statements (#10743).
Note this moves none of the five real programs in #10695 — their loop bodies are multi-statement or contain calls, which no current tier admits (#10741) — and `a[i] += 1` is unaffected because its lowering produces multiple statements (#10743).
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In `@changelog.d/10718-array-store-hoist.md` at line 9, Update the changelog
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if crate::array::rebuild_array_numeric_raw_f64_allow_holes(arr) {
return true;

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Avoid retrying the array-wide validation before the window proof.

When a nonnumeric slot lies outside the loop window, rebuild_array_numeric_raw_f64_allow_holes walks from the start of the array to that slot, clears the layout flags, and returns false. The guard then validates the window successfully, but that validation records no state. Each later loop-entry guard repeats the array-wide walk before checking the window, so this workload remains dependent on the full array size.

Keep the array-wide promotion for fully numeric arrays, but cache the failed whole-array proof with write invalidation or select the window path without retrying the array-wide walk.

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the guard around rebuild_array_numeric_raw_f64_allow_holes so a failed
whole-array proof is cached with appropriate write invalidation, or bypassed for
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if crate::array::rebuild_array_numeric_raw_f64_allow_holes(arr) {
return true;
}
// #10718: the array-wide invariant can fail on a slot this loop never
// touches. The clone reads only `[min_idx, max_idx_exclusive)`, so a
// window-scoped proof is the whole requirement; it records nothing, so
// the array-wide claim above stays the authority for everyone else.
crate::array::array_window_is_numeric_raw_f64_allow_holes(arr, min_idx, max_idx_exclusive)

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Add a caller-level regression for the window-only fallback. The current tests do not call js_typed_feedback_packed_f64_range_loop_guard with a nonnumeric element outside the requested window and numeric elements inside it. Add a test that requests [0, 2) from an array such as [1, 2, "x"] and asserts packed-f64 admission or equivalent loop behavior. Without this assertion, a regression can reject valid window admissions without detection.

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caller-level regression test for js_typed_feedback_packed_f64_range_loop_guard
using an array like [1, 2, "x"] and requesting the [0, 2) window. Assert that
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proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2026
…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 v0.5.1611dd00a00305.

This PR's commits are on main unmodified (the train rebases, so the SHAs changed; the trees did not). Closing because a train lands content rather than merging the source branch. Your stack landed whole — #10731, #10746 and #10752 together, since they cannot land apart.

Your CI reds were stale, not real. For the record, since they'd otherwise sit on this PR looking like your problem:

Both runs date from 2026-09-19 against a main that has moved four times since.

Validated on the assembled tree: nine cheap gates, cargo check --workspace --all-targets under -D warnings, all five pinned artifacts byte-identical before and after the sweep, six unit suites, and a nine-area gap sweep aimed at this stack's own subject — array 99, index 25, loop 17, numeric 15, typed_ 12, for_ 8, push 6, packed 2, compound 2 — zero unexplained regressions.

One pre-existing red is disclosed in the train body rather than buried: perry-hir's remedy_is_scoped_to_bundled_npm_shims is stale since train 231 removed the dayjs binding. It fails identically on main and has nothing to do with your change. Fix is in flight.

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